• April 2, 2015 | The American Lawyer

    Big Firms Hit Home Run Ahead of Opening Day

    As Major League Baseball prepares to begin its 2015 season—the first a href="http://grantland.com/features/the-consigliere-commissioner-rob-manfred-mlb-bud-selig-alex-rodriguez-pe

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  • April 2, 2015 | Litigation Daily

    Litigator of the Week: Lynne Hermle of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

    Even before last Friday's headline-grabbing victory for Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Lynne Hermle says she had won close to

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  • April 2, 2015 | The American Lawyer

    Big Firms Hit Home Run Ahead of Opening Day

    As Major League Baseball prepares to begin its 2015 season—the first under new commissioner and former Morgan, Lewis & Bockius partner Robert Manfred Jr.—the union representing the league's players has filed its annual report detailing expenses to 14 outside legal advisers, including three Am Law 200 firms.

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  • April 2, 2015 | Litigation Daily

    Litigator of the Week: Lynne Hermle of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

    Ellen Pao's discrimination case against Kleiner Perkins riveted Silicon Valley and grabbed headlines nationwide. And so did Hermle's knockout defense win.

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  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2015-04-01
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft III Public Defender's Office, McDonough, and John W. Kraus Public Defender's Office, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Kathryn L. Powers, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Christian A. Fuller, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14A1430

    The trial court properly ruled that striking a prospective juror for cause was not required, since the challenged juror was a corrections officer and thus was not a sworn police officer with arrest p

  • April 1, 2015 | The American Lawyer

    Fried Frank Hires DLA Piper's $5 Million Man

    Fresh off a rebound financial year in 2014, Fried,

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  • April 1, 2015 | The Recorder

    Employment Lawyers Brace for 'Pao Effect'

    SAN FRANCISCO — The verdict has been read and the jury has gone home, but for lawyers in the employment bar, the effects of last month's blockbuster gender bias trial are just

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  • April 1, 2015 | The American Lawyer

    Fried Frank Hires DLA Piper's $5 Million Man

    Fresh off a rebound financial year in 2014, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has hired a new litigation chair in James "Jamie" Wareham from DLA Piper, a global legal giant that made its soon-to-be-former partner a $5 million man after hiring him four years ago from Paul Hastings.

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  • April 1, 2015 | The Recorder

    Employment Lawyers Brace for 'Pao Effect'

    Everyone's talking about the Kleiner Perkins trial and whether it's likely to embolden companies or workers.

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  • April 1, 2015 | Corporate Counsel

    April Deals & Suits

    Shire NPS Recovering from a botched deal with AbbVie Inc. last year, Irish drugmaker Shire plc said Jan. 12 it would purchase Bedmin

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