• April 9, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Sudden Surge Has Hungry Firms Scarfing Up IPOs

    When we spoke with several corporate securities lawyers last month about the state of the moribund IPO market,

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  • April 14, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Many GCs Still Fighting Backdating Charges

    After two years during which eight general counsel ran afoul of federal regulators for alleged improper stock options backdating, four are still fighting charges, three have settled or pleaded

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  • March 15, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Internet libel claim nets big bucks

    Brenda Cambron Rogers, a 67-year-old rookie lawyer, won what she believes is a record judgment in Georgia for internet libel -- $533,333.33. Gwinnett County State Court Senior Judge

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  • May 7, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Online Critics Held Harmless From Defamation Claim

    On the Internet, everyone is a critic. Computers have turned every restaurant patron into Gael Greene and every moviegoer into the late Roger Ebert. But what happens when these anonymous crit

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  • October 16, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Counterfeits: Beyond the Knockoff

    Counterfeiting is an enormous problem for businesses, consumers and law enforcement. The federal government estimates that counterfeit goods account for approximately $500 billion in sal

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  • April 19, 2004 | National Law Journal

    VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

    CONSUMER PROTECTION Sears settles auto shop fraud suit for $625,000 Sears Roebuck and Co. Inc. agreed on March 5

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  • August 24, 2007 | The Recorder

    The Devil's in the Billing Details

    Older attorneys remember the days when clients would get a bill with just a dollar amount and two simple words: "services rendered.""They don't put up with anything close to that anymo

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  • August 1, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Good Will Hunting

    The best testimonial about a law firm might come from a lawyer who's left. That's the idea behind firms' growing emphasis on alumni networking - the treatment of former employees' good will as

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  • November 21, 2006 |

    KoolSpan Warms Up With $6.5M

    Wireless device security systems developer KoolSpan Inc. of Bethesda, Md., has raised $6.5 million in new second-round funding, with another New York-based firm joining its investor syndicate.

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  • March 3, 2004 | The Recorder

    Deja Vu on M&A

    If you went to sleep in 2000 and woke up today, you'd find virtually the same frenzied mergers and acquisition market of four years ago. "Your initial reaction might be that very littl

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