• October 20, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Unlikely coalition guides Iceland's recovery

    On Oct. 6, 2008, Iceland's then-prime minister, Geir Haarde, went on television to tell his countrymen the nation's financial system was on the verge of collapse. Haarde explained

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  • March 15, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Alexander v. Cahill

    Judges Walker and Calabresi1 Decided: March 12; 07-3677-cv Defendants below, representing New York's Appellate Division, appeal from the decision of the United States Distr

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  • December 8, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Litigators push for 'civil Gideon'

    The American Bar Association litigation section's annual conference met in Atlanta last week to tackle an ambitious issue: providing publicly funded legal counsel for people who can't afford

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  • May 2, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Sidebar

    Philly v. Jersey: You might say that Douglas Eakeley, a commercial litigation partner at Roseland, N.J.'s 150-lawyer Lowenstein Sandler, has made a career out of unpopular causes. As chairma

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  • June 20, 2000 |

    Open Market

    The legal market could be opened up to competition as a result of a wide-ranging inquiry into regulations within the profession being conducted by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).The

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  • October 8, 1999 | New York Law Journal

    NYS Home Care Not Discriminatory

    New York State does not discriminateby failing to include safety monitoring when it evaluates what home-careservices to provide people with mental disabilities under Medicaid, theSecond Circuit has

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  • February 21, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Revenue Growth Might Not Be for Everyone

    Editor's note: This is the second installment in a series looking at law firm revenue tren

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  • July 11, 2005 | Daily Report Online

    Arrest to Death Sentence in 69 Days

    Steven H. Pollak [email protected] In a span of 69 days, Robert Dale Conklin was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Despite the short timeline, the Fulton

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  • March 23, 2005 |

    U.K. to Open Up Law Profession

    The British government outlined a radical reform program for the legal system Monday that could for the first time feature law firms owned by outsider investors or even listed on the sto

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  • July 25, 2002 | Legal Times

    Making a Difference, Firm by Firm: Part II

    JONES, DAY, REAVIS & POGUEJones Day attorneys recently won asylum for a Haitian refugee after a year-long effort.The client had been detained since he arrived in t

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