• September 3, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

    SpeakersJeffrey O. Greenfield, a partner in the corporate and securities department at Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg & Ellers, was a featured speaker at a workshop

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  • October 22, 1999 | New York Law Journal

    The Recent School Shootings: Are Video Game Manufacturers Liable?

    On Dec. 1, 1997, Michael Carneal, a quiet 14 year-old freshman at Heath High School in Paducah, Ky., waited for a daily prayer session at the school to end, then opened fire on the prayer group, ki

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  • April 19, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Battling the Bomb

    Jonathan Weisgall was a new associate at Covington & Burling in 1975 when a partner asked him to take a call about a possible new pro bono client. "Something about atomic bombs,"

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  • People v. Salah Essalek, 2007CN004644

    Publication Date: 2007-11-09
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    Date Filed: 2007-10-11
    Court: Criminal Court, New York County
    Judge: Elisa Koenderman
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    Case Number: 2007CN004644

    Judge Elisa S. Koenderman NEW YORK COUNTY Criminal Court Judge Koenderman Charged by information with Unlawful Possession of Personal Identification Informat

  • July 27, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Environmental Law

    Several federal and state statutes allow the government to sue for compensation when natural resources are injured or destroyed by contamination. These "natural resource damages" (NRD) actions

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  • James v. Von Zemenszky

    Publication Date: 2002-04-02
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    Date Filed: 2002-04-01
    Court: Fed. Cir.
    Judge: Bryson, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 00-3418

    Appealed from: Merit Systems Protection BoardThe issue in this case is whether the Department of Veterans Affairs may separate a physician from her position in the agency without complying with the

  • March 20, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Phila. Jury Awards $25.2 Million in Asbestos Case

    A Philadelphia jury has awarded $25.2 million in compensatory and punitive damages in an asbestos suit. In two cases, consolidated with the other suit in a reverse-bifurcated trial, the jury e

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  • February 8, 2011 | The Associated Press

    Foreclosure king's fall mirrors that of industry

    During the housing crash, it was good to be a foreclosure king. David Stern was Florida's top foreclosure lawyer, and he lived like an oil sheik. He piled up a collection of trophy properties

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  • December 29, 2006 | The Recorder

    9th Circuit Backs Broad BALCO Search

    In a ruling on the BALCO steroids-in-sports case, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found Wednesday that the government has a right to hold onto seized medical records even if search warran

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  • April 20, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Employer Must Foot Medical Benefits Despite End of Disability Payments

    Because the Workers' Compensation Act sets no time limit on an employer's liability for workplace injury-related medical costs, a former Western Pennsylvania coal miner is entitled to medical

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