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  • June 4, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Firms Don't Rock the Boat

    Troubled economic waters make it tricky for Texas firms to chart a smooth financial course -- meaning most firms didn't make any drastic changes in salaries or billing rates over the pas

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  • December 22, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Lawyer charged with insider trading

    A Paul Hastings associate was among four people charged Thursday in a $4.8 million insider trading scheme involving a former Lehman Brothers representative and his wife, who worked at a publi

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  • March 7, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Realty Law Digest

    Co-Ops/Condos—Shareholder Sues Co-Op and President of Board of Directors for Damages and Injunctive Relief Based on Alleged Failure to Remediate Second Hand Smoke S

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  • May 7, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Costs of Compliance With USA Patriot Act Are High

    THE OSTENSIBLE goal of the USA Patriot Act, passed a month after Sept. 11, 2001, was to prevent future attacks by cutting off terrorist funding with a powerful new array of anti-money launderi

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  • March 2, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Scope of Privilege Waiver Still Uncertain

    When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided the case of In re EchoStar Communications Corp., 448 F.3d 1294 (Fed. Cir. 2006), last May, it provided clarification in an

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  • December 22, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Pa. Supreme Court to Consider SEPTA's Immunity to FELA Claims

    The state Supreme Court granted an appeal in a case of first impression regarding whether SEPTA is immune from railroad workers' lawsuits filed in state court under federal law. The appeal w

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  • October 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Preferred Providers

    The 16 former employees of KPMG L.L.P. indicted for tax shelter fraud probably couldn't have asked for a more sympathetic judge to hear their case. First Judge Lewis Kaplan found that the gove

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  • February 3, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Learn From Listening

    The sun comes up slowly over the rice fields around Eagle Lake; and when it does, the geese take flight, and the entire sky looks like it is filled with soft, fluffy snow. Sitting on the damp ground w

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  • September 30, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Activision Blizzard / Vivendi Activision Blizzard Inc. took advantage of Vivendi SA's restructuring by agreeing on July 26 to buy back a 35 percent s

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  • October 6, 2006 | Alm

    Insurer Claims Hedge Funds Depressed Co.�s Stock Prices

    Despite a rising share price, a Morristown, N.J., insurer and its parent are pressing a $6 billion suit alleging that hedge funds depressed its stock price. The complaint, by Crum &

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