• August 29, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    A Guiding Force

    When Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom was selecting

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  • June 14, 2010 | National Law Journal

    D.C. CALENDAR

    Tuesday, June 15 Expert witnesses: Thirteen sections of the District of Columbia Bar present "Working With Expert Witnesses." The program begins at 12:15 p.m. Spea

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  • December 14, 2009 | National Law Journal

    D.C. Honors

    AMERICAN LEAGUE OF LOBBYISTS James Walsh, a government affairs counselor to K&L Gates' public policy and law practice in Washington, will join the board

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  • April 6, 2011 | Daily Report Online

    Alexander to become GC of CARE USA

    Kent B. Alexander will become the general counsel of CARE USA next week, succeeding Linda K. DiSantis, the humanitarian and relief agency's general counsel since November 2008. DiSantis is re

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  • July 13, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Calendar of D.C. Events

    Monday, July 13 Substance Abuse: The D.C. Bar's Courts, Lawyers and the Administration of Jus­tice; Criminal Law and Individual Rights; Family Law

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  • Montana Wilderness Association v. Connell

    Publication Date: 2013-07-31
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2013-07-31
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Sam E. Haddon, District Judge, Presiding Before: Raymond C. Fisher, Ronald M. Gould, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew K. Bishop (argued), Western Environmental Law Center, Helena, Montana, for Plaintiff-Appellant Montana Wilderness Association. James S. Angell and Melanie R. Kay (argued), Earthjustice, Denver, Colorado, for Plaintiffs-Appellants The Wilderness Society, Friends of the Missouri Breaks Monument, National Trust for Historic Preservation and Oil and Gas Accountability Project.
    for defendant: Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General, Tyler Welti, Rachel K. Bowen, David C. Shilton, and Robert P. Stockman (argued), United States Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C.; Karan Dunnigan and Sarah Shattuck, Office of the Solicitor, United States Department of the Interior, for Defendants-Appellees Jamie Connell, in her official capacity as Director of BLM's Montana State Office; Mike Pool, in his official capacity as Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management; Bureau of Land Management, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior; United States Department of the Interior, a federal department; Zane Fulbright, in his official capacity as Acting Manager of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument. Paul A. Turcke (argued), Moore Smith Buxton & Turcke, Chtd., Boise, Idaho, for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees Recreational Aviation Foundation and Montana Pilots Association. Steven J. Lechner (argued) and Jeffrey Wilson McCoy, Mountain States Legal Foundation, Lakewood, Colorado; Hertha L. Lund, Lund Law, PLLC, Bozeman, Montana, for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees Missouri River Stewards, Fergus County, Phillips County, Chouteau County and Blaine County.

    Case Number: No. 11-35818 No. 11-35821

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 8174 MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION, a nonprofit organization, Plaintiff-Appellant, andp c

  • April 12, 2010 | National Law Journal

    D.C. CALENDAR

    TUESDAY, APRIL 13 Patent Office: The Patent Committee of the District of Columbia Bar's Intellectual Property Law Section presents "The Patent Office S

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  • December 20, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Banks wooing wealthy women CEOs say this time is different

    About 75 women executives streamed up the marble staircase of the Harold Pratt House on Park Avenue in New York last month to a ballroom with cathedral ceilings and antique chandeliers. br

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  • September 4, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Discretion Lacking In Discretionary Spending?

    Recent allegations of inappropriate spending within a federal program designed to meet the legal needs of the nation's poor will have little to no effect on legal services funding in Connecti

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  • D.C. Appleseed Center For Law and Justice, Inc v. District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking

    Publication Date: 2012-09-19
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2012-09-13
    Court: D.C. Ct. App.
    Judge: Ruiz, Senior Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10-AA-1461

    (Argued June 9, 2011Before FISHER and BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, Associate Judges, and RUIZ, Senior Judge.*fn1Petitioner D.C. Appleseed Center for Law and Justice