• July 22, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

    New Associate Dorothy M. Claeys has joined Smith Giacometti & Chikowski as an associate. Claeys will focus her practice in the areas of bankruptcy, creditor's rights

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  • August 11, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Gets Boost in Venture Capital

    Venture capital firms poured $249.3 million into New Jersey-based startups and other privately held companies during the second quarter of this year, more than double the first-quarter activity of

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  • June 20, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Dual Fen-Phen Cases Dismissed for Lack of Doctors' Testimony

    The coordinating judge of Philadelphia's Complex Litigation Center has dismissed two more fen-phen cases in which the physicians who originally prescribed the plaintiffs diet drugs were not de

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  • August 11, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Gets Boost in Venture Capital

    Venture capital firms poured $249.3 million into New Jersey-based startups and other privately held companies during the second quarter of this year, more than double the first-quarter activity of

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  • July 19, 2012 | International

    Asia Deal Digest: July 19, 2012

    Japan Linklaters is representing Tokyo-based advertising firm Dentsu Inc. on its planned $5 billion acquisition of British competitor Aegis Group Plc. David

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  • October 10, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Unpublished Opinions

    STATE COURT CASES ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES � DRAM SHOP ACT � NEGLIGENCE OF TAVERNS 47-2-1635 Fitzharris v. Butch Kowal's Tavern, et al., App. Div. (per curiam) (3 pp.) The pa

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  • December 12, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Who Killed the Mass Torts Bonanza?

    The power of the plaintiffs bar is on the wane in this country, and will be for a long time to come. You won't hear many tort reformers admit it. They've done too good a job demonizing trial

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  • February 27, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Thomas Rice and Gregg Kosterlitzky have been named shareholders in Cox Smith Matthews in San Antonio. Rice practices in the creditors' rights, corporate restructuri

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  • May 2, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Scandals Spur New Kind of Corporate Exec

    A new type of corporate executive is on the rise, spurred by a mix of new laws, litigation fears and marketing strategies.The executive is the chief governance officer, or CGO, typical

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  • March 27, 2003 |

    Sample Release Clauses

    The majority of product liability cases, like tort cases in general, ultimately settle out of court. The challenge is to steer shrewdly at every stage of that resolution process towards a deal

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