• September 13, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Law Departments Join Firms And Nonprofits to Help Their Communities

    The Washington, D.C.-based Pro Bono Institute provides support, guidance and training to major law firms, public interest groups and corporate legal departments interested in initiating or exp

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  • April 2, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    My Home, My Rights - And My Right to Redress

    By its own admission, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is addressing "an outdated disability system." A new disability determination process promises an easier, faster claims process,

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  • August 30, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Judge Calls School's Claims 'Baseless' in Ponzi Scheme Case

    Conventional wisdom says that when a big dog is getting ready to bite, it doesn't bark loudly, but instead emits a muted, guttural growl. The same just might be said of some federal judges w

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  • July 11, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

    New Associates Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott has announced that Marcia L. DePaula, Benjamin D. Burge and Patricia Shearer Mahlstedt have joined the fi

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  • August 4, 2003 | Legal Times

    Civil Actions

    The following selected cases were recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria divisio

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  • April 28, 2010 | Daily Report Online

    Lawyers go small, start new firms

    Two new firms have spun off from larger Atlanta firms-one handling intellectual property and the other predominantly focusing on medical malpractice defense. The IP boutique, McKeon Me

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  • February 13, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Foley & Lardner: Stephen P. Fox joins the intellectual property department and the electronics practice group as partner in the firm's Palo Alto, Calif., off

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  • January 2, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New Partners Drinker Biddle & Reath (Philadelphia): Debra M. Patalkis joins the securities and corporate governance litigation practice group as partner in the firm's Wash

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  • September 16, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Blank Rome Stays Put At One Logan Square

    After scanning its options in the marketplace, Blank Rome has decided to stay at One Logan Square. The firm last week signed a new, 14-year lease with the building's landlord, Brandywine Prope

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  • June 9, 2008 |

    Justices Banish Payday Lender

    A Delaware-incorporated payday loan company that charges its customers a whopping 368 percent annual interest violates Pennsylvania's Consumer Discount Company Act, the state Supreme Court has rule

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