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  • April 23, 2002 | Corporate Counsel

    EBay's Risky Bid

    Something didn't smell right. Years of nabbing spies, kidnappers and other bad guys had taught Robert Chestnut a thing or two about scam artists. A former federal prosecutor-turned-blood

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  • NetJets Aviation, Inc. v. LHC Communications, LLC

    Publication Date: 2008-08-12
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    Date Filed: 2008-08-08
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: Kearse, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 06-3340-cv

    Argued: January 15, 2008Before: KEARSE, LEVAL, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.Plaintiffs NetJets Aviation, Inc., and NetJets Sales, Inc. (collectively "NetJets"), appeal from so much of a judgment

  • Giordano v. Market America, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-03-24
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    Date Filed: 2010-03-17
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: Sack, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 06-2071-cv

    Argued: November 8, 2007Final Submission: April 7, 2009Before: McLAUGHLIN, CABRANES, and SACK, Circuit Judges.Plaintiff John Giordano appeals from a judgment of the United States District Cou

  • Eri Consulting Engineers, Inc. v. Markswinnea

    Publication Date: 2010-05-10
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    Date Filed: 2010-05-07
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Paul W. Green Justice
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    Case Number: 07-1042

    Argued December 17, 2009JUSTICE GREENThe principal question in this case is whether consideration received for the sale of a business interest is subject to equitable forfeiture as a remedy for

  • February 14, 2005 | Legal Times

    Latest Merger Has Midsize Firms Pondering the Altar

    It began, perhaps appropriately enough, at Arabelle, a romantic Manhattan restaurant best known for its role as a "Sex and the City" set.Mary Cranston, the chair of San Francisco's

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  • March 26, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Number of Lateral Hires at Large Firms in Texas Increased in 2006

    After 24 years with Strasburger & Price, Daniel F. Susie, a banking attorney and former Strasburger partner, says he decided to make a move to Winstead to grow his practice. "Winstead's

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  • February 16, 2005 | Alm

    Latest Merger Has Midsize D.C. Firms Pondering the Altar

    It began, perhaps appropriately enough, at Arabelle, a romantic Manhattan restaurant best known for its role as a Sex and the City set. Mary Cranston, the chair of San Francisco

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  • May 15, 2007 | Legal Times

    Departures Leave D.C. Firm in Taxing Situation

    An exodus of sorts is taking place at Miller & Chevalier, one that has the 100-lawyer Washington, D.C., firm taking a hard look at its future. Known primarily as a tax boutique, the firm

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  • Umland v. Planco Financial Services, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2008-09-15
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    Date Filed: 2008-09-09
    Court: 3rd Cir.
    Judge: Ambro, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 06-4688

    PRECEDENTIALArgued November 6, 2007Before: SCIRICA, Chief Judge, AMBRO, and JORDAN, Circuit JudgesOPINION OF THE COURTCarrie Umland worked for PLANCO Financial Services, Inc. from 2000 to

  • August 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Midlevel Associates Survey: Firms Improve, but Complaints Continue

    Ben Johnson III, the managing partner of Alston & Bird, tells a story about being a young partner at the firm in the early 1970s.He was sitting in on an interview between then-senior par

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