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  • August 9, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Defense Scores in Pension Plan Stock-Drop Suits

    Defense attorneys are hailing a series of recent court victories in lawsuits filed on behalf of employees who lost money in their 401(k) and other retirement plans because of the declining pric

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  • August 14, 2009 | Daily Business Review

    Coke wins in test case of Alien Tort laws

    In a 34-page ruling that one defense lawyer describes as "a sweeping review of the Alien Tort statute," the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Miami judge's dismissal of four cases cla

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  • June 16, 2003 | The Recorder

    The Marshall Plan

    Every October, the townsfolk of Marshall, Texas, gather for a festival honoring a pesky and ubiquitous local nuisance -- the fire ant.But another wave of critters with a potentia

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  • March 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Ruling opens way for pensions as restitution

    When it comes to compensating crime victims, the sacred cow of untouchable pension funds now may be a cash cow for federal prosecutors wanting to tap white-collar defendants for substant

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  • September 26, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Foley & Lardner: Pamela L. Johnston joins the firm's white-collar defense, corporate compliance and securities litigation groups as partner in the fir

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  • August 15, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Protecting cultural artifacts

    Name and title: John E. Huerta, general counsel Age: 62 Megamuseum: Appointed general counsel of the Smithsonian Institution in 1995, Huerta became t

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  • September 13, 2004 | National Law Journal

    In Brief

    Oracle merger gets blessing from judge He didn't buy the government's arguments, and didn't believe its witnesses. In the end, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walk

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  • August 9, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Lawyers Struggle to Get Arms Around E-Discovery

    Editor's note: This is the first installment of a weekly series examining the effects e-discovery has had on the practice of law. The e-discovery scales of justice are consistently tu

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  • August 4, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    Movers is compiled and written by Roger Adler. Please send material to him at The National Law Journal, 105 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. Alston & Bird (Atlanta): Ralph F.

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  • September 19, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    The 2012 Lawyers on the Fast Track

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