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  • October 25, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Refinancing surge gives lift to banks amid foreclosure scrutiny

    A rush by U.S. homeowners to refinance at near record-low interest rates marks a rare bright spot for the mortgage industry, under attack for choking the economy with shoddy loans and botched foreclos

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  • May 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    THE AM LAW 100 2008: Do Law Firm Mergers Always Bear Fruit?

    Over the last ten years, dozens of Am Law firms have scrambled to find merger partners. New practice areas, geographic advantages, economies of scale-the rationales for these couplings a

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  • Judson Atkinson Candies, Inc. v. Dhimantec

    Publication Date: 2008-06-05
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    Date Filed: 2008-06-03
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Cudahy, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: Nos. 07-1660 & 07-2116

    ARGUED NOVEMBER 9, 2007Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and CUDAHY and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.This case reflects the efforts of Judson Atkinson Candies, Inc. (Judson Atkinson) to collect a judgm

  • March 14, 2013 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Reforming N.J.'s Public Bidding System

    In January, the New Jersey Department of the Treasury announced plans to implement a privately designed electronic management system for public contract bidding. The purpose of the anticipate

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  • June 11, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

    What to Do When Served With a Grand Jury Subpoena

    Reading any newspaper demonstrates that white-collar crime increasingly has become a priority target for prosecutors; mortgage fraud is just the flavor of the year. When prosecutors suspect wro

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  • March 16, 2012 | Bloomberg

    Ga. lottery players spend most for least

    Georgia's lottery players are the biggest suckers in a nation buying more than $50 billion a year in tickets for state-run games, which have the worst odds of any form of legal gamblin

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  • Bright v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2009-12-11
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    Date Filed: 2009-12-10
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 11
    Judge: Rick Strange Justice
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    Case Number: 11-07-00379-CV

    OPINIONFloy Hubert Johnson and Shirley A. Johnson filed this suit against Clarence O. Bright to reform a deed dated May 2, 2002, by which they conveyed thirty-three acres to Clarence O. Bright. The

  • January 28, 2009 | Bloomberg

    'Lords of Finance' teaches eerie lesson

    If you worry that we're sliding into another Great Depression, spend a few evenings with Liaquat Ahamed's "Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World." This is narrative histor

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  • June 1, 2008 | Legaltech News

    EDD Brings Opportunities: Can You Adapt?

    Electronic data discovery is not just raising havoc with trial strategies, risk management decisions, litigation budgets and document retention policies, it's also uprooting traditional suppo

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  • Roda Drilling Co. v. Siegal

    Publication Date: 2009-01-23
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    Date Filed: 2009-01-20
    Court: 10th Cir.
    Judge: Kelly, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 08-5115

    PUBLISHBefore KELLY, BALDOCK, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.This is an appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction by a magistrate judge exercising consent jurisdiction. 28 U.S.C. § 636