• September 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Flight Plan

    How bad did things look for Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay as they went to trial in January? If the numbers were any indication, pretty dismal. Three out of four mock juries hired to listen

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  • July 27, 2006 | A Practical Guide To Equal Employment Opportunity

    Are Backdating Cases Really Securities Fraud?

    When federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission filed the first charge from the burgeoning options-timing investigations against former Brocade Communications CEO Gregory Re

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  • February 28, 2006 | The Recorder

    Dispute Over Satellite Radio May Be Key Issue for Digital Copyrights

    Howard Stern and Oprah Winfrey might have lent some serious star power to subscription-based satellite radio networks XM and Sirius, but that doesn't mean the fledgling medium is ready for prime ti

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  • American Honda Motor Company, Inc. v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
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    Date Filed: 2010-04-07
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Per curiam.
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    Case Number: 09-8051

    SUBMITTED DECEMBER 30, 2009Before POSNER, EVANS, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.American Honda Motor Company and Honda of America Manufacturing (collectively "Honda") seek leave to appeal the distri

  • December 14, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Ruling on Cell Phone Tower Data Raises Privacy Issues

    A federal court judge recently denied a prosecutor's request under the Stored Communications Act to have a cell phone service provider give the government information showing which cell towers a ce

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  • Rogers v. TexWest, L.L.C.

    Publication Date: 2008-08-14
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    Date Filed: 2008-08-12
    Court: Tx. App. Dist. 5
    Judge: Justice Morris
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    Case Number: 05-07-01594-CV

    AFFIRMOPINIONBefore Justices Morris, Whittington, and O'Neill.This is an appeal from the denial of a special appearance challenging the trial court's personal jurisdiction. In two issues, Kar

  • March 2, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    After the Handshake

    The dramatic increase in lateral movement of partners between law firms is one of the most profound changes in the legal profession in the past 20 years. Today, as never before, firms function

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  • August 8, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Plaintiff's original petition: Baron v. Baron & Budd

    CAUSE NO. CC06-11220IN THE DISTRICT COURTDALLAS COUNTY, TEXASCOUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 3.FRED BARON, individually and on behalf of SILBER PEARLMAN, LLP a

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  • Oppenheimer Co. Inc. v. Deutsche Bank AG, 09 Civ. 8154

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Date Filed: 2010-03-02
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: Loretta Preska
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    Case Number: 09 Civ. 8154

    District Judge Loretta A. Preska U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Marvin Gerald Pickholz (Oppenheimer), Duane Morris, LLP (NYC) Allan Taffet (Deu

  • September 18, 2000 | Legal Times

    Taking Advantage of the Training Dividend

    In his book "Only the Paranoid Survive," Intel Corp. Chairman Andy Grove refers to instances that he calls strategic inflection points. These are times when the decisions an organization is fa

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