• February 21, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    The False Promise of 'Reform'

    In the age-old Chicken Little fable, Chicken Little, while eating lunch one day, has an acorn hit her on the head and she concludes that "[t]he sky is falling."1 Her analysis and co

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  • June 6, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    The SEC's Setbacks in Litigation

    One of the most fought over quotes from football is: "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing."[FOOTNOTE 1] By its recent track record in the litigation arena, the U.S. Secur

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  • June 6, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    The SEC's Setbacks in Litigation

    One of the most fought over quotes from football is: "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing."[FOOTNOTE 1] By its recent track record in the litigation arena, the U.S. Secur

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  • September 12, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    With Scant Guidance, Federal Judges Test the Limits in Terror Cases

    Five years after terrorist hijackers leveled the World Trade Center, the courts of the 2nd Circuit have been the scene of a series of collisions between national security priorities and civil liber

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  • Mission Springs Water District v. Verjil (Brophy)

    Publication Date: 2013-08-08
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2013-08-07
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Slovak Baron & Empey, John O. Pinkney, and Charles L. Gallagher for Plaintiff and Respondent. Colantuono & Levin and Michael G. Colantuono for Association of California Water Agencies, California Association of Sanitation Agencies, California State Association of Counties, and League of California Cities as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Trevor A. Grimm, Jonathan M. Coupal, and Timothy A. Bittle for Defendants and Appellants. Benbrook Law Group and Bradley A. Benbrook for Citizens in Charge as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

    Case Number: No. E055176

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 8708 MISSION SPRINGS WATER DISTRICT, Plaintiff and Respondent, v.

  • September 6, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    The Policies and Politics of Antitrust

    Almost 30 years ago Robert Bork, in his seminal book "The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War With Itself," wrote that: "modern antitrust law has so decayed that the policy is no longer intellectual

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  • September 27, 2004 | Daily Report Online

    Where's the Class of '88 Women Grads have taken different law paths

    Joanne Cronrath Bamberger Special to American Lawyer Media WASHINGTON-The nation's law school class of 1988 boasted a student population that was 41 percent female. The '80s, in

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  • November 29, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    LATERALS COZEN O'CONNOR (Philadelphia): Mark Rab­inowitz joins the firm's global insurance group as partner in the Chicago office a

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  • November 10, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    Winston & Strawn (Chicago): Michael Elkin has been named managing partner of the firm's New

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  • July 27, 2011 | Daily Report Online

    Immigration lawyer drawn to Ogletree's larger practice

    Sarah J. Hawk, whom Fisher & Phillips recruited three years ago to build its immigration practice, has left for another labor and employment firm, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Ste

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