• August 23, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Six Firms on Aetna's $7.3 Billion Coventry Health Care Buy Aetna purchase Coventry Health Care in a $7.3 billion deal, including Coventry debt, that

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  • Al-Akel v. County of Westchester

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    Judge Brieant AL-AKEL v. THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER — Before this Court for decision are two separate motions to dismiss this civil rights action, which motions were docketed Augus

  • August 1, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    The Rise of 'Equal Opportunity Abuse'

    Office "desk rage," tagged as the latest incivility sweeping America, has labor and employment lawyers sounding more like family counselors and sociologists when speaking about

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  • June 16, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Panel Dismisses Negligence Suit Against Store Over Attack An assistant manager at a Duane Reade store in Manhattan cannot sue a security company for damages sustained in an atta

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  • October 30, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Patent Rights in Service Industries

    Many whose comfortable status quo has been disrupted by the advance of business method patents say patents should be limited to industrial and high-tech innovations. For generations, typical commer

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  • September 30, 2013 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS Day Pitney: Eric Fader joins the firm's life sciences and health care practice group as counsel to the New Yo

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  • October 14, 2002 |

    News In Brief

    3rd Circuit OKs Closed Deportation HearingsPhiladelphia - The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled by a 2-to-1 vote that the press and public have no constitutional right to attend the depo

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  • February 23, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Biotech Patent Case Highlights Differing Enablement Standards

    The federal statutes governing U.S. patent law set forth several requirements that must be fulfilled in order to obtain a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Of these, the enable

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  • December 7, 2005 | Daily Report Online

    Tort Litigator to Take the Helm at King & Spalding

    King & Spalding partners have voted to make Robert D. Hays Jr., a product liability lawyer, their new managing partner starting Jan. 1.Hays, 47, will take over from Walter W. Driver Jr., who

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  • November 3, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Deal marks the end of an era for 99-year-old Atlanta firm

    It was inevitable, right If Koch Industries can gobble up Georgia-Pacific, if Cisco Systems can acquire Scientific-Atlanta, if the new AT&T can take over BellSouth, why should anyo

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