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  • December 3, 2010 | Alm

    Drilling produces lawsuit blizzard

    In September, 13 families from tiny Lenox Township in northeastern Pennsylvania sued Southwestern Energy Co. The plaintiffs, whose homes sit atop a slice of the 95,000-square-mile bedrock exp

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  • February 28, 2005 | Legal Times

    Targeting Tax Reg to Fix Social Security

    If an influential congressional committee has its way, some professionals and many small business owners could be forced to dig into their own pockets to help bridge the projected $

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  • March 26, 2012 | National Law Journal

    A time to grow, once again

    After three years of flat to negative growth, 2011 was the year that the nation's 250 largest law firms started getting bigger again. Headcount among NLJ 250 firms was up a coll

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  • November 8, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Sidley Austin, White & Case Take Lead on Unusual Dynegy Bankruptcy

    As of Tuesday, a series of unusual Chapter 11 filings by subsidiaries of Houston-based energy company Dynegy Inc., a target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/08/us-dynegy-idUST

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  • August 30, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Hospitals want bigger piece of Medicare pie

    The disproportionate share hospital (DSH) adjustment, the largest Medicare payment supplement to the reimbursements that hospitals receive for in-patient services, is given to hospitals

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  • January 25, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Keep Your Job, But Lose Some Work

    A non-compete clause between an employee and an employer remains enforceable even after the employer sells the portion of the company in which the employee works, as long as the transaction is akin

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  • November 8, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Buried Alive

    On July 16, when federal district court Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed criminal charges against 13 former KPMG partners indicted in the government's massive tax shelter fraud case, he beamed a bright

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  • January 9, 2012 | National Law Journal

    INADMISSIBLE

    JUDGE CALLS EX-REPORTER HONEST, PROFESSIONAL As the California Supreme Court weighs whether to admit ex-journalist Stephen Glass to the state bar, it's worth not

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  • February 7, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Discovery Hearing Reveals Fred Baron's Firm Buyout

    A heated battle over confidentiality erupted on Feb. 2, during what was otherwise intended to be a continuation of the discovery hearing in Baron, et al. v. Baron & Budd P.C., et al

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  • May 8, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Am Law 100 firms feel growing pains

    By Alison Frankel, The American Lawyer Since 1986, whe American Lawyer first published a list of the 100 highest-grossing firms in the United States, the total number of lawyers i

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