• September 12, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Reputational Bonfires and Vanity

    I recently gave a talk on the subject of "family law implications for business." In particular, the group wanted to know what can happen to a business — or business person —

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  • Foster Wheeler LLC v. Affiliated FM Ins. Co., 600777/01

    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
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    Date Filed: 2010-03-16
    Court: Supreme Court, New York County
    Judge: Barbara Kapnick
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    Case Number: 600777/01

    Justice Barbara R. Kapnick NEW YORK COUNTY Supreme Court Counsel for Affiliated FM Insurance Co.: Patrick J. Dwyer, Esq., Smith, Stratton, Wise, Heher & Brennan, LLP

  • March 15, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    NYU Law Public Service Scholarship Has 50th Birthday

    Assuming all goes well with the $30 million endowment campaign soon coming to closure at New York University School of Law, the number of students who are part of the prestigious Root-Tilden-K

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  • July 27, 2010 | The Recorder

    Dismantling a 90-Lawyer Firm Is a Messy Business

    SAN FRANCISCO - Firm leaders at Sacramento's McDonough Holland & Allen are still hopeful that the firm can wind down its operations gracefully. And some at the firm continue

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  • August 6, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Clifford Chance starts to bulk up its U.S. forces

    Clifford Chance has started its push into the United States by adding attorneys to its New York and Washington offices. The effort to expand here is largely the result of a strategic r

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  • March 14, 2002 | Law.com

    School Law

    Nowhere is the heightened concern with security following Sept. 11 and Columbine more apparent than in the board rooms and administrative offices of Long Island's school districts. Since school off

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  • Baron v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

    Publication Date: 2001-12-27
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    Date Filed: 2001-11-06
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: John M. Walker, Jr., Chief Judge.
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    Case Number: 00-9065

    Argued: May 22, 2001Plaintiffs-appellants, four former employees of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, appeal from a grant of summary judgment entered in the United States District Cour

  • September 7, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 606

    Among the amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence that became effective in December 2006 is one to Rule 606, which governs the competency of jurors as witnesses. Juror Testimon

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  • December 8, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Germain v. County of Suffolk

    Judge Arthur D. Spatt Decided: Dec. 5, 2009 APPEARANCES: LAW OFFICES OF JANICE GOODMAN Attorneys for the Plaintiff 275 Seven

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  • Powell v. Kelly

    Publication Date: 2009-04-22
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    Date Filed: 2009-04-15
    Court: 4th Cir.
    Judge: Shedd, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for appellant: Jonathan Sheldon, Devine, Connell & Sheldon, Fairfax, Va.
    for defendant: Attorney for appellee: Katherine Baldwin Burnett, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Va.

    Case Number: 08-3

    PUBLISHEDArgued: December 3, 2008Before MOTZ, GREGORY, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Shedd wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge Motz joined. Judge Grego