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    The honeymoon is over. More than 4,000 same-sex marriages performed in San Francisco in February and March have been declared null and void.The California Supreme Court did what many e

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  • December 16, 2011 | The Recorder

    On the Move

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    Year in BAR-ometers

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  • October 5, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

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    Law firm mergers and acquisitions from January through September of this year were up 79 percent nationally compared to the same nine-month period last year, according to a new report by consulting

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  • January 30, 2001 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Out-of-State Firms Keep Creeping Into New Jersey

    State lines are meaning less and less in the business of law on the East Coast.The expansion of multistate law firms into New Jersey continues nonstop. Managing partners continue

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  • February 14, 2012 | The American Lawyer

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    After leading Venable for six years as the firm's managing partner, KARL RACINE is returning to his white-collar and commercial litigation practice full-time. He will be replaced by LINDSAY M

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  • October 18, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Dealing With Diversity On a World Stage

    The "freedom and opportunity" that is America "remains an aspiration" and is "not yet a reality," former U.S. Sen. George J. Mitchell told the few hundred people in attendance at the Philadelp

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  • November 1, 2006 | The Minority Law Journal

    Diversity of Opinion

    There's no one-size-fits-all solution for making law firms more inclusive. Different ethnic groups have different concerns and perceptions. That's the lesson from our second Minority Ex

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  • May 10, 2007 | The Recorder

    Steefel Loses Another Five Lawyers

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  • Chisom v. Board of Retirement of County of Fresno Employees' Retirement Association

    Publication Date: 2013-07-31
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2013-07-16
    Court: C.A. 5th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas J. Tusan and Russell D. Cook for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Reed Smith, Harvey L. Leiderman and Jeffrey R. Rieger for Defendants and Respondents Board of Retirement of County of Fresno Employees' Retirement Association and Fresno County Employees' Retirement Association. Lozano Smith, Gregory A. Wedner and Scott G. Cross for Defendants and Respondents County of Fresno, Clovis Veterans Memorial District, Fresno Mosquito & Vector Control District and Superior Court of California for the County of Fresno.

    Case Number: No. F064259

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 8219 GERALDINE CHISOM et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. BOARD