• December 17, 2002 | National Law Journal

    Forgive Us Our Debts

    If the archdiocese of Boston follows through on its rumored plan to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, some of the toughest decisions and most decisive battles will likely be fought ov

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  • October 15, 2007 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCOElizabeth "Betsy" England was appointed secretary of the State Bar's Litigation Section Executive Committee. England, a partner at CARROLL, BURDICK & MCDO

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  • April 24, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Big Tobacco Can't Use 'Pass-On' Defense in RICO Suit

    Tobacco companies accused of lying about the dangers of smoking by Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield of New York cannot claim as a defense that increased health costs associated with the dec

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  • September 24, 2007 | Legal Times

    Pan Am Alleges Sheppard Mullin Helped Ex-GC Conceal His Fraud

    Let's call it the not-so-friendly skies. The re-reincarnation of the airline Pan American is suing Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton and one of the firm's D.C. attorneys for legal malpractice

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  • September 30, 2002 | Daily Report Online

    Former GSU Dorm's Shift to Hotel Triggers Lawsuit

    If the Phoenix Tower Suites had remained student housing, as its creditors claim it should have, it would have been the most luxurious college digs in Georgia. The 15-story building at

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  • February 14, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Growth strategy depends on laterals

    SONNENSCHEIN NATH & Rosenthal partner Kara Baysinger is on the road. Every week since July, she has landed in an airport far from her San Francisco Bay Area home, climbed into a cab, and

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  • February 11, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Second Circuit: Class Action Can't Claim Price-Fixing in the Title Insurance Biz

    The opaque ways of the U.S. title industry have recently caused a storm among regulators, who've called for a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB10001424052970203739404574292542488539828,00.htm

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  • December 8, 2008 | Legal Times

    A Group Gathers

    As business grapples with strategies for a carbon-constrained world, a new player has joined the senior executive ranks: the climate change officer. Now two Washington lawyers have

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  • December 17, 2012 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS Alston & Bird (Atlanta): James Evans Jr. joins the firm's litigation team as partner in the Los Angeles office

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  • April 24, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Appeals Court Says Injured Man Not Fit to Be Prison Guard The Appellate Division, Third Department, yesterday supported a state Division of Human Rights' decision that a disabled man w

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