• January 4, 2010 | National Law Journal

    INADMISSIBLE

    FIRMS DISMISS CONCERN ABOUT YEAR-END CASH FLOW It's a year-end tradition: pushing clients to pay their bills before the ball drops in Times Square. But with the sour

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  • December 23, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Internet Users Post Defamatory Statements at Their Own Risk

    As a general rule, the law of defamation provides recourse to a plaintiff who demonstrates that a defendant communicated to a third person a false statement about the plaintiff that tended to harm

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  • June 18, 2004 | Alm

    Lawyers See Turbulence In SEC's Crackdown On White-Collar Crime

    Defense attorneys say they've thought for some time that the Securities and Exchange Commission has been overzealous in pursuing high-ranking executives suspected of white-collar crime. Their

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  • Josiane Hird, Plaintiff v. Imergent, Inc., Defendants, 10 Civ. 166 (DLC)

    Publication Date: 2011-01-20
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Denise Cote
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Pro Se Plaintiff: Josiane Hird, New York, NY
    for defendant: For Defendants: Ryan J. Donohue, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, New York, NY

    Case Number: 10 Civ. 166 (DLC)

    Cite as: Hird v. Imergent, Inc., 10 Civ. 166 (DLC), NYLJ 1202478301871, at *1 (SDNY, Decided January 6, 2011)District Judge Denise CoteD

  • November 27, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Input From Client Surveys Worth the Bother

    As attorney Martin A. Clayman sees it, a client's experience with a law firm is akin to dining at a fine restaurant -- either it's compliments to the chef, or there was a fly in the soup. And the e

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  • October 8, 2012 | Litigation Daily

    Defendants Racking Up Wins over 'Abstract' Patent Claims

    Back in 2009, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation turned to a seldom-invoked patent law provision in hopes of knocking out infringement claims brought by a non-practicing entity called

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  • August 24, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Facing a Changing Technology

    Name and title: Byron Marchant, executive vice president, chief administrative officer and general counsel of BET Holdings Inc. Age: 48 Pioneering company:

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  • Fox Broadcasting Company, Inc. v. Dish Network L.L.C.

    Publication Date: 2013-07-24
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    Date Filed: 2013-07-24
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Dolly M. Gee, District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Barry G. Silverman, and Raymond C. Fisher, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul M. Smith (argued), Jenner & Block LLP, New York, New York; Richard L. Stone, Andrew J. Thomas, David R. Singer, and Amy M. Gallegos, Jenner & Block LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: E. Joshua Rosenkranz (argued), Peter A. Bicks, Elyse D. Echtman, and Lisa T. Simpson, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, New York; Annette L. Hurst and William A. Molinski, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, California; Mark A. Lemley and Michael H. Page, Durie Tangri LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendants-Appellees. Robert A. Long, Jennifer A. Johnson, and David M. Zionts, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae ABC Television Affiliates Association et al. Jeffrey A. Lamken and Robert K. Kry, MoloLamken LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Cablevision Systems Corp.

    Case Number: No. 12-57048

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 7776 FOX BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.; TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION; FOX TELEVISION HOLDINGS, INC., Plaintiffs-Appell

  • June 1, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    Baghdad, in Slow Motion

    On a Friday afternoon in early April, while many of his partners in Washington, D.C., are in their M Street offices staring at computer screens or on Capitol Hill twisting arms, Patton Boggs p

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  • April 10, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

    Dechert entered the legal market in Almaty, Kazakhstan, by hiring 11 attorneys from Chadbourne & Parke, according to The Legal Intelligencer, a sibling publication. The group's cli

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