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  • December 5, 2003 | The Recorder

    Fixing Pro Sports

    Betting and sports go together so well that they should be legally joined. Professional athletes should be allowed -- read: strongly encouraged -- to bet on their games.Currently, all

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  • March 7, 2003 | The Recorder

    Punitive Measures

    Brent Ferguson and Florencia Prieto were dumbfounded in 1997 when the class counsel in their suit against Unocal Corp. chose not to seek punitive damages in order to cement an $80 million glob

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  • June 9, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Supplies and Demand

    While I am in a boutique health law practice in Houston, it actually began about six years ago as a solo practice. Now, we have lots and lots of technology and even our own information service

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  • Gibbs-Alfano v. Burton

    Publication Date: 2002-02-01
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2002-01-31
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 00-9553

    Argued: November 6, 2001Members of the Town Council of the Town of Ossining, New York, appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (McMahon, J.),

  • March 17, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

    Funding Crunched for Federal Criminal-Defense Appointments

    The dispute over funding the U.S. government is affecting the federal court system, and its first victims are lawyers who take criminal-defense appointments in U.S. district courts. Notices

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  • January 19, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Make Your Point Forcefully

    Persuasive writing achieves maximum impact by concentrating on one point at a time. That's how people are persuaded -- one point at a time. Sometimes writers lose sight of this and try to make

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  • November 10, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Blasting a Zoning Ordinance With State Law Can Backfire

    Apparently coal mining is still all the rage in Western Pennsylvania, even amid the going green movement possessing all those newly minted environmentalists out there. In this awfully capital

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  • June 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    A Lawyer Brings Order to an Unruly Shop: Palace Entertainment

    It's a run-of-the-mill Tuesday morning, and Michael Baroni, the general counsel of Palace Entertainment Holdings LLC, has a killer whale problem. Palace's parent ­company, Madrid-based P

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  • April 2, 2007 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCODrinker Biddle & Reath has elevated Michelle Childers to partner. Childers, who is a member of the products liability practice group, focuses on t

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  • December 15, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Athletes Should Be Able to Gamble on Their Games

    Jeffrey Standen is a professor of law at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Ore. His e-mail address is [email protected].

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