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  • December 18, 2006 | The Recorder

    Survey: Companies Not Happy with Outside Counsel

    Corporate America isn't very happy with its law firms. In fact, only 32 percent of executives responding to a recently released client service survey said they would recommend a firm that worked fo

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  • June 20, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Justices: In Miranda calculus, age should be a factor

    Stressing that children are not "miniature adults," a divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday held that the police must consider a juvenile suspect's age in deciding whether the child is in cu

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  • December 19, 2002 | Law.com

    Defending Against Failure-to-Warn Claims: The Deposition of the Treating Physician

    In pharmaceutical or medical device litigation, the importance of the testimony of the treating physician cannot be overstated. Plaintiffs typically pursue claims against pharmaceutical

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  • August 23, 2006 | Legal Times

    Law Firm Cash Flowing to Clinton

    WASHINGTON � If contributions from law firms are any bellwether of overall fund-raising patterns, then it looks like Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., will march toward the Democratic nomination i

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  • August 23, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Fee Bid in Citi Say-on-Pay Case Is Defeated

    Do shareholder plaintiffs lawyers deserve some credit for forcing the resignations of ex-Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit and another bank executive last October? If so, they're not getti

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  • May 9, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Six Firms Handle $6.9 Billion Deal Involving BMC SoftwareBusiness software vendor BMC Software has agreed to sell itself to a consortium of private inves

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  • August 1, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

    Courting Shell

    Early last year, Shell Oil Company sent word to law firms it had worked with in the past that it was hosting a beauty contest. The company planned to select a group of "strategic partners" --

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  • April 9, 2012 | The Recorder

    Emily Ward, Deputy GC for Patents at eBay

    Every second, people around the world trade about $2,100 worth of goods and services on eBay. That adds up to a mountain of sales for the online auction site founded in 1995. Last year

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  • June 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Credit Where Credit Is Due

    To show how much the compact legal department at Discover Financial Services can do, general counsel Kelly McNamara Corley tells a story. It was 2007, and the credit card issue

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  • March 11, 2008 | Legal Times

    House Files Contempt Suit

    WASHINGTON � The House's lawyers Monday followed through with plans to sue White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and ex-White House counsel Harriet Miers for refusing to testify in the U.S.

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