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  • May 20, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    A Fee-for-All

    As law firms' hourly rates continue to climb, in-house legal departments could use more relief than just tort reform legislation. Measures like the recently passed Class Action Fairness

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  • July 22, 2008 | The Associated Press

    Social Networking Puts the Bite on Defendants

    Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from t

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  • September 21, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Love in a Virtual World (Without Infringement)

    It is a cliché, in 2011, to suggest that the Internet is transforming the way people communicate. The transformation has been occurring for years, and it is now safe to say that we are &

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  • January 3, 2008 | Bloomberg

    Eco-friendly fun

    Guests at the Sunset Waters Beach Resort on the west coast of Curacao, Dutch Antilles, feast their eyes on more than palm fronds and an aqua sea. Just past the hotel's entrance there's also a

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  • July 28, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Travel Daze

    What do you do when a partner says to hit the road, Jack? In today's economy, a lawyer might fear being laid off, but let's think positive and assume that when a partner or general counsel say

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  • April 5, 2005 | The Recorder

    The Long Goodbye

    When Peter Belton joined the California Supreme Court as a staff attorney, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy were campaigning for the presidency.It was 1960, and Belton had signed on f

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  • February 25, 2008 | Legal Times

    Hidden Treasure

    Johann Sebastian Bach's six Brandenburg Concertos are now his most popular work and an ideal entr�e to his diverse and vital art. Yet these masterpieces that are so beloved today had an

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  • Oil, Chemical, & Atomic Workers Int'l Union v. Conoco, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-03-15
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2001-03-07
    Court: 10th Cir.
    Judge: HENRY and BRISCOE, Circuit Judges, and SHADUR, District Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Scott
    for defendant: Stephen R. Hickman
    Case Number: No. 99-5173

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. HENRY, Circuit Judge.Conoco appeals the district court's decision to submit a series of grievances filed by the pl

  • November 2, 2012 | The Recorder

    Food Court

    As California food companies prepare for the potential impact of Proposition 37, courts are already experiencing a preview of what is sure to come. A surge of litigation related to geneticall

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  • Jenkins v. Price Waterhouse Long Term Disability Plan

    Publication Date: 2009-05-08
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2009-05-04
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Evans, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 08-1909

    ARGUED FEBRUARY 23, 2009Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and KANNE and EVANS, Circuit Judges.In 1989, when he was 27 years old, Charles Jenkins started working as a "Senior Account Consultant" f