• January 16, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Five Questions Firms Face in 2006

    Mergers. Firm dissolutions. Associate salary hikes. Last year was anything but docile in the legal market. With ever-increasing competition among firms, 2006 looks to be equally challenging. W

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  • April 4, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    HealthSouth Coughs Up Healthy Profits for Attorneys

    HealthSouth Corp. has helped lots of lawyers become more prosperous in recent years.The Birmingham, Ala., company expects eventually to pay a total of about $147 million in legal fees for li

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  • May 13, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Bankruptcy Practice

    Quite often, unpaid vendors/suppliers threaten to refuse to continue to provide services and supplies to aChapter 11 debtor during its Chapter 11 case until and unless their prepetitio

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  • April 10, 2007 | Alm

    Microsoft: Looking for Another Patent Litigator

    It's been a busy winter for Microsoft's four-lawyer patent litigation team. On Feb. 10, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in AT&T v. Microsoft to determine whether the sof

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  • April 21, 2005 | Legal Times

    Two High Court Justices Un-Recuse From Key Patent Case

    When oral arguments got underway at the Supreme Court Wednesday in the key patent infringement case of Merck KgaA v. Integra Life Sciences I, Ltd., an odd question was on the minds of m

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  • July 28, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

    Dashboard

    A Good Deal After almost 25 years at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in San Antonio, Cecil Schenker joined Cox Smith Matthews as a sh

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  • February 26, 2010 | Bloomberg

    Suing Wall Street banks never looked so shady

    Next time you see some company complain its "mark-to-market" losses aren't real, remember this name: the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle. It used to claim that, too. And it couldn't have be

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  • June 13, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Attorney Disqualified on Eve of Federal Trial The lawyer for an accused extortionist has been disqualified from representing the man on the eve of trial. Southern District Judge

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  • September 22, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    2nd Circuit Ruling Paves Way for Shareholder Access to Proxy Materials

    The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has paved the way for shareholders to gain access to company proxy statements in order to initiate contested board of director elections. The court's d

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  • November 26, 2002 | Corporate Counsel

    Service Call

    A whopping two-thirds of Lowe's lawyers reported "outstanding" relationships with their clients. Describe the overall relationship between lawyers and clients at your company Sears Lowe's Very

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