• October 20, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS. . . Phillip H. Schmandt, a commercial real estate and business attorney, has joined Austin's McGinnis Lochridge & Kilgore as of counsel. Ray Chester

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  • July 31, 2003 |

    Verizon, WorldCom Settle on Claims

    A settlement guaranteeing that one of WorldCom Inc.'s fiercest critics will not object to its reorganization plan won approval in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New Yor

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  • September 29, 2000 | Alm

    Conference Call

    This is the second installment of a new column examining pending cases that the Supreme Court is expected to discuss at its private conference for possible inclusion on its docket.The

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  • August 4, 2008 | National Law Journal

    High Court Review Sought on Judicial Recusals

    The ethical hornets' nest stirred up by the refusal of an acting West Virginia chief justice to recuse himself from

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  • December 27, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Judge OKs $14.5M Settlement in Class Action Over Bad Jeep Brakes

    A Bergen County judge has approved a $14.5 million settlement in a national class action alleging defective brakes on Jeep Grand Cherokees. Superior Court Judge Jonathan Harris, in a r

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  • May 24, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Suits Say Tracking Software Violates Wiretap Act

    The allegation a blogger laid out in a YouTube video seemed truly alarming — his smartphone was tracking his text messages and keystrokes, apparently recording his private thoughts. Voic

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  • December 7, 2005 |

    Being GC at Dole: Not a Doleful Position

    As a young man in his 20s, C. Michael Carter did quite well managing his family's businesses, including a historic New Orleans nightclub, a semi-professional baseball team and a construction c

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  • May 24, 2001 | The Associated Press

    Republicans Speed Olson to Confirmation Before Democrats Take Over

    Republicans won approval of Theodore Olson as the nation's solicitor general Thursday, hurrying to confirm him before losing Senate control to Democrats who remember him as the anti-Clinton la

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  • March 20, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Producing Those Documents

    Litigators have seen massive changes in the past two decades. Perhaps some of the greatest technological changes have taken place in the time-honored discovery tradition of document production

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  • November 13, 2000 | Legal Times

    Liberal Lobbies Not Rallying Around Nader

    Ralph Nader ran as an outsider who was going to drag the dissatisfied left into a new progressive party. But he may have accomplished exactly the opposite -- strengthening the nascent coalitio

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