• March 2, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    New Administrative Judge Named for Seventh District Judge Craig J. Doran (a href="http://nycourts.law.com/cpnylj/judgeprofile.asp?JP=1154" target="new"

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  • April 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    On the Job: Moves

    Refining His Position Bubbling up to the top at the world’s largest oil company. Talk about company loyalty. In 1973, straight out of law

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  • February 5, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Rental Companies Spared From Vicarious Liability Law

    In a case that has drawn nationwide interest, the Appellate Division, Second Department, has ruled that a 2005 federal law trumps an 84-year-old state statute that imposes vicarious liability

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  • October 3, 2001 | National Law Journal

    Order's Bad, but It Stands

    Despite calling an arbitration award "so incomprehensible that three years later the judges and parties are still trying to figure it out," the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rule

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  • September 17, 2012 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    NEW ARRIVALS Bradley Arant Boult Cummings (Birmingham, Ala.): Jeffrey Anderson joins the firm's Birmingham office as counse

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  • February 9, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Smoker's $300 Million Award to Be Overturned

    The largest individual award to a former Florida smoker against the tobacco industry will not stand, a Broward Circuit judge ruled Friday. Calling the a target="new" href="http://www.law.c

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  • September 18, 2008 | The Recorder

    Heller Ponders Dissolution

    Heller Ehrman appeared on the brink of dissoluti nesday, with some partners already looking to move with what amounted to tacit approval from firm management. In office meetings

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  • February 10, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Fla. Judge Pledges to Cut Smoker's 'Excessive' $300 Mil. Verdict

    The largest individual award to a former Florida smoker against the tobacco industry will not stand, a Broward Circuit judge ruled Friday.Calling the $300 million jury verdict "excessive" an

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  • September 17, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Securities case has law firms on edge

    WASHINGTON � The hundreds of pages of arguments in the more than 30 briefs filed in what many call the most important securities case in a generation boil down to one question: Who, besi

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  • April 19, 2010 | National Law Journal

    CIVIL ACTIONS

    The following cases were recently filed in the Washington-area district courts. This information is provided by the courts' online bulletins. U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT

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