• August 1, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    A Boost For Foreign Claims

    An effort by the Bush administration and the business community to halt federal litigation against corporations sued for human rights violations abroad suffered a major blow in the U.S. Court

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  • July 21, 2006 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    WEN HO LEE LEGAL TEAM FINALLY MEETSLast week, Wen Ho Lee's extensive team of lawyers met for a dinner on Jones Day's Washington, D.C., roof deck � their first gathering in seven

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  • November 15, 2004 | National Law Journal

    A Strong National Presence Requires N.Y. Muscle

    Although the vast majority of the law firms based outside of the Empire State added just a handful of attorneys to their Manhattan offices this year, some firms experienced hefty gains -- and

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  • March 26, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Defense Wins of 2003

    Federal prosecutors spent more than a month making their case against Tyson Foods Inc. and three managers accused of conspiring to smuggle illegal aliens into the country to work at Tyson's po

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  • March 19, 2007 |

    Marshall Law: Is the Patent Attorney's Favorite Texas Town a Victim of Its Own Success?

    The Eastern District of Texas, patent litigation's current "rocket docket," is losing steam. But the special rules of procedure for patent trials that Marshall, Texas, judge John Ward first impleme

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  • May 4, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Judge Upholds Jury Award Against HP Over Patent Violation

    A federal judge has upheld a jury judgment that the Hewlett-Packard Company improperly appropriated technology licensed by Cornell University to sequence and process information in ea

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  • October 15, 2004 | National Law Journal

    The Urge to Merge

    With a more-is-better philosophy, national practices increasingly want to lock arms with foreign law firms in mergers to create a global presence.If only it were that simple.Wh

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  • April 3, 2007 | Legal Times

    New Ethics Officer Helping HP Move Forward

    Last October, Jon Hoak, 57, was appointed vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer for Hewlett-Packard, the scandal-plagued California technology company that made the news last ye

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  • July 25, 2000 | Alm

    Bluebloods' Bluebook

    I have often thought of the Bluebook citation system -- for decades, the prevailing format for legal citation -- as a cruel form of torture perpetrated on unsuspecting lawyers by Ivy Leaguers

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  • October 24, 2005 | Alm

    Roberts Dips His Toe Into Cert Pool

    Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has decided to jump in the pool - at least for now. That's the so-called cert pool, the group of justices whose law clerks divvy up incoming petitions for certio

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