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  • September 17, 2008 | Bloomberg

    Environmental law hits forest of imports

    Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees. A congressional amendment designed to stop imports of illegal lumber was written so broadly, U.S. business groups say, that they fear t

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  • February 1, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Caterpillar / Bucyrus Caterpillar Inc. is digging into the market for surface and underground mining equipment with its proposed $8.6 billion purchase of Bucyrus Internation

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  • September 20, 2004 | Legal Times

    Supreme Court Ponders Religion's Place

    Meeting for the first time since it recessed in June, the Supreme Court convenes in a closed conference Sept. 27 to consider more than 1,900 new cases that have piled up on its doorstep

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  • July 8, 2013 | International

    Growth Puts Spotlight on the Philippines

    In May the Philippines took many international observers by surprise when it posted the highest growth rate in Asia for the first quarter. The archipelago nation’s economy grew 7.8

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  • March 15, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Defense wins of 2003

    Federal prosecutors spent more than a month making their case against Tyson Foods Inc. and three managers accused of conspiring to smuggle illegal aliens into the country to work at Tyso

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  • September 23, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    2nd Circuit Revives Suits Targeting CO2 Emissions

    Global warming lawsuits brought by New York State and others who challenged major utilities on carbon-dioxide emissions from coal-burning power plants were reinstated Monday by the 2nd U.S. Circuit

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  • December 16, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Bankruptcy Rates Top $1,000 Mark in 2008-09

    A review of bankruptcy rates in Delaware and the Southern District of New York shows that a handful of U.S.-based partners at

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  • August 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Reunited We Stand

    It's an unusual networking group— and an exclusive one. Some 25 lawyers who served as a general counsel at a federal agency under President George W. Bush have continued to

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  • October 15, 2012 | National Law Journal

    INADMISSIBLE

    OUT TO THE BALLGAME, FAR FROM THE BILLABLES Some Washington attorneys put their billable hours on hold on October 10 to take in the first baseball playof

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  • June 27, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Cameron Findlay Leaving Medtronic for ADM GC Role

    Archer Daniels Midland Company, the agricultural conglomerate, will soon get its second general counsel in less than a year, having lured Medtronic Inc. GC Cameron Findlay from the world&

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