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  • April 12, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Is global warming an actionable tort?

    The recent 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, once again focused the world's attention on the issue of global warming. But far from Copenhagen, the issue of

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  • November 10, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Video Web sites download a defense

    UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP'S recent copyright infringement suits against two video-sharing Web sites have fueled specul that Hollywood could be facing a repeat of the costly and lengthy litig

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  • August 4, 2008 | Legal Times

    Akin Gump Shifts Priorities and Practices

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has spent six months quietly engineering a series of changes to the firm’s management structure and several practice areas. Now the fallout

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  • April 25, 2005 | Alm

    Law Firms Gaining, but With Big Caveat

    Law firms are back - sort of. Revenues and profits were up by nearly 10 percent in 2004, a clear sign that firms have shaken off the tech bust slump. But even as the biggest legal shop

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  • May 25, 2005 | Alm

    Assessing Pitfalls of Mandatory Law Firm Retirement

    Even as Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and the government battle over whether 31 attorneys should get damages resulting from the firm's mandatory retirement program, many law firms are stickin

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  • May 11, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Reports of suicides point to job stress

    As if long hours, high stakes and intense competition weren't enough, now lawyers are grappling with client cutbacks, lower pay and layoffs. And it appears some attorneys are cracking under t

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  • September 19, 2011 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS CHADBOURNE & PARKE (New York): Brian Pollack joins the firm's intellectual property practice as counsel to the New York

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  • October 1, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Halligan Is Nominated For D.C. Circuit Slot President Barack Obama yesterday nominated Caitlin Halligan, general counsel at the Manhattan District Attor

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  • March 23, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Attorneys Reinstated From Ineligible List

    The New Jersey Lawyers' Fund For Client Protection declares that the following New Jersey attorneys, having fully satisfied the requirements of the annual assessment, are hereby removed from the l

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  • June 29, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

    New Additions Langer & Grogan has announced that Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. had become of counsel to the firm. Hazard is trustee professor of law at the University

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