• December 6, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    VerdictSearch

    CONSTRUCTIONUnpaid contractor blamed city's design for slope failuresAn excavation company on Nov. 5 was awarded $799,987 by a Travis County jury on its breach of contra

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  • October 31, 2002 | Legal Times

    Back to the Old Economy

    In the busy hallways of Covington & Burling it's pretty hard to tell that there's an economic slowdown outside. The D.C.-based firm -- long considered a dinosaur saddled with an old-fash

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  • March 16, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Marketplace

    St. Vincent's Plan Features Housing, Emergency Care A Manhattan bankruptcy court has been asked to approve the sale of buildings and land owned by the St. Vincent Catholic M

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  • June 30, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    Remembering GumpRobert S. Strauss, a founding partner of Dallas' Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, recalls that when he and Richard A. Gump Sr. started their firm, they agreed

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  • September 25, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Revisiting the Forbes 400 and Its Deep-Pocketed Attorneys

    Three years after considering the credentials of the lawyers littering Forbes’ annual list of America's

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  • December 15, 2008 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    CROWELL & MORING Christopher Padilla, 44, has joined Crowell & Moring’s international trade and investment consu

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  • September 19, 2005 | Legal Times

    Guessing Games in Wake of Roberts Hearings

    John Roberts Jr. went before the Senate Judiciary Committee as a Hoosier, a Reagan administration go-getter, a skilled Supreme Court practitioner and an appeals court judge.The Supreme

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  • October 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    The Global Issue Oil in the Blood

    In previous careers, Vinson & Elkins lawyers were roustabouts and roughnecks--petroleum engineers, land men, and oil tanke

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  • November 2, 2009 |

    Patent Litigation Weekly: When $25 Million Isn't All That Much

    Third-party financing of lawsuits—often described as a new and growing phenomenon—has been

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  • July 12, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    DISTINCTIONS JEFFER, MANGELS, BUTLER & MARMARO (Los Angeles): Marc Marmaro, partner and founding member of the firm, has b

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