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  • July 10, 2008 | Bloomberg

    Crisis averted

    The Cuban Missile Crisis is an oft-told tale of near-war in the nuclear age. Time hasn't diminished the fascination it holds for historians, diplomats, generals and their armchair equival

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  • Hirt v. Equitable Retirement Plan for Employees, Managers and Agents

    Publication Date: 2008-07-15
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    Date Filed: 2008-07-09
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: Katzmann, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: Docket Nos. 06-4757-cv (L), 06-5190-cv (XAP) & 07-1680-cv

    Argued in Tandem: April 22, 2008Before: JACOBS, Chief Judge, KEARSE and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.In 2006, Congress enacted the Pension Protection Act ("PPA"), which amended the Employee Retireme

  • February 23, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Arthur M. Siskind, News Corp. Ltd.

    Title: Director, Senior Executive Vice President And Group General CounselAge: 61The Company: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Ltd. owns 22 TV stations and the Fox Br

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  • Rostropovich v Guerrand-Hermes

    Publication Date: 2005-05-04
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    Court: Appellate Division, 1st Dept
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    By Mazzarelli, J.P., Sullivan, Ellerin, Gonzalez, Sweeny, JJ. 5846-5847-5848N-5849N. Olga Rostropovich, Plaintiff-res-ap, v. Olaf Guerrand-Hermes, Defendant-Appellan

  • Suffolk County Second Department SUPREME COURT,

    Publication Date: 2012-03-23
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    Justice W. Gerard AsherHernandez v. Pivaral (10/18282)—Motion DecidedMulligan v. Rausch (11/2396-MM)—Motion GrantedSchneikart v.

  • October 23, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Dirty Jokes on Sex Harassment Plaintiff's Computer Ruled Fair Game

    A plaintiff in a hostile work environment case who claims that her boss' sexual innuendo was offensive and humiliating cannot block the jury from hearing about the dirty jokes found on her own work

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  • October 6, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Touro Conference at Nuremberg Spurs Film

    As capstone to its scholarly conference last year in Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice -- where the likes of Hermann G�ring, Rudolf Hess and Joachim von Ribbentrop were held to

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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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  • June 13, 2012 | International

    Female Lawyers Find Hong Kong a Good Career Fit

    In 1992, when Chun Wei started out as an associate in the Hong Kong office of Sullivan & Cromwell, the demographics of the legal profession reflected the British colony that Hong Kong was

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  • Preciado v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-07-15
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    Date Filed: 2011-07-13
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 7
    Judge: Mackey K. Hancock Justice
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    Case Number: NO. 07-10-00242-CR

    Before QUINN, C.J., and HANCOCK and PIRTLE, JJ.OPINIONAppellant, Chrystopher Don Preciado, was indicted on two counts of aggravated robbery,*fn1 enhanc