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  • August 2, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Increased Extradition for Business Crime

    Today, many significant white-collar cases have cross-border implications. Often the presence of defendants for trial in cases pursued by U.S. authorities can only be obtained with the assistance o

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  • February 28, 2005 |

    Legislative Researchers: Pa. Should Abolish WCAB

    Workers' Compensation Legislative Researchers: Pa. Should Abolish WCABMove may reduce expense of workers' comp. litigation What would life

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  • July 6, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Professional Responsibility

    Two recent decisions and an ethics opinion together illuminate lawyers'—and law firms'—duties to prospective clients, as well as those owed to pro bono clients. The particul

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  • July 18, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    Promotion Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott (Pittsburgh): Scott D. Cessar has been appointed as member in charge e firm's home office. He is the current chairman

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  • August 29, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    Case Dismissed San Antonio civil attorneys Frank Ford and Tom Newton found themselves indicted for the alleged misuse of official information in 2003, after they contacted some

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  • April 14, 2008 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San Francisco Hastings College of the Law professor Geoffrey Hazard Jr. will receive the 2008 Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award. The award, created in 1994

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  • March 16, 2005 |

    Small Firms, Big Wins

    The top three jury verdicts of 2004 each awarded the plaintiff more than $1 billion. While those few cases still mark the upper stratosphere, there are any number of verdicts that could proper

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  • June 12, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Former Milberg partners seek capital, fees

    As the legal community ponders whether the criminal indictment of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman will eventually lead to firm's dissolution, two of its former partners are arguing

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  • May 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Canadian Suits

    Labourers' Pension Fund, et al., v. Sino-Forest Canadian-listed Sino-Forest Corporation was a stock market darling until an independent research firm claimed last summer that the com

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  • February 20, 2003 | The Recorder

    Big Payday for Lawyers in 'Riders' Suits

    Three attorneys will earn about $3.9 million for representing plaintiffs in federal lawsuits who say they were victims of a rogue group of Oakland police officers.In all, the city of O

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