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  • April 28, 2008 | National Law Journal

    VOIR DIRE

    Just a tool? When the U.S. Justice Department declassified recently a 2003 memo authored by then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, the listserv for lawyers repre

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  • October 29, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    City Can Tax Online Travel Companies, Judge Rules

    A state judge has rejected a claim that New York City's taxation of online travel companies violates the state Constitution. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Ramos (a href="http:/

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  • November 15, 2004 | Legal Times

    Trapped in the Middle

    Much has been written recently about the creeping "federalization" of corporate governance, a subject traditionally reserved to state law. Exhibits A and B to the indictment have been th

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  • December 14, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Sutherland Asbill Launches Tech-Ready Mock Courtroom

    Sutherland Asbill & Brennan's transactional lawyers are as happy about the firm's new mock courtroom as its litigators. Until now the litigators have had to use the firm's conference rooms to p

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  • April 5, 2011 | Daily Report Online

    Women Pioneers in the Law Reminisce, Provide Advice

    Relationships with women peers and mentors are often critical in a successful law career. For Georgia women lawyers just three decades ago, success frequently depended on blending in as much as pos

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  • April 18, 2012 | Daily Report Online

    Judge Murphy's long ride on bench

    When U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy was growing up in Haralson County west of Atlanta during the Great Depression, his father bought a mule and put his sons to work raising cotton because

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  • March 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Rainbow Revolution

    In his famous dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down Texas's same-sex sodomy law, Antonin Scalia railed against the legal profession for emb

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  • December 1, 2007 |

    Circle of Friends

    The alumni group of former clerks of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the court of appeals for all patent cases nationally, held its annual reunion this fall as usual at the Dolly

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  • August 12, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    This Week in Law Journal History

    125 Years Ago August 1885: While most courts closed for the summer, Vice Chancellor John Bird found no opportunity for a holiday. "The cessation of the business of the other

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  • March 19, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Appraisal Proceeding Viewed as Proper Forum for Limited Partners' Complaints

    ALBANY - A limited partner has no common-law right to sue for fraud or illegal acts committed by a general partner during a merger, but the limited partner may seek redress for those complaint

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