• February 7, 2003 | The Recorder

    Hard Fall for a Tough Firm

    Seventy-nine years ago, Herman Phleger sat in an office at the old Crocker Bank building on Market Street with Peter Dunne and William Brobeck and plotted to oust partners from their firm.

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  • February 27, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    A Real Syndrome? A woman convicted in 2005 of serious bodily injury to a 6-month-old child will challenge the scientific reliability of the expert testimony on shaken baby syndr

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  • November 15, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

    For Reed Smith, Paris Today -- and China Tomorrow?

    In a move aimed at boosting service to clients in the financial services and life sciences industries, Reed Smith has opened a Paris office with four partners from the Paris firm Rambaud Marte

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  • January 4, 2000 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Sheraton Must Pay $51.8 Million for Mismanaging Hotel

    Hotelier ITT Sheraton Corp. owes John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. and a unit of Sumitomo Corp. more than $51 million in damages for mismanaging the former Sheraton Washington Hotel and engagi

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  • December 13, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    THE CONJOIN GROUP ACQUIRES PHNS INC. Lane Cates, interim general counsel for Dallas-based PHNS Inc., turned to attorneys at Jones Day for assistance with her company's recent acquisition b

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  • October 25, 2004 | Alm

    Delaware Firms Expanding; Upping Entry-Level Salaries

    Hoping to attract the best and the brightest of law students graduating in 2005, numerous Delaware firms have announced that they will offer $115,000, or even $125,000, per year to start.

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  • August 1, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    Harassment By Stereotype

    Gay male workers suing for sex discrimination under Title VII have had little success with the argument that they were harassed because they failed to live up to the "stereotype" of being a ma

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  • August 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Reunited We Stand

    It's an unusual networking group— and an exclusive one. Some 25 lawyers who served as a general counsel at a federal agency under President George W. Bush have continued to

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  • November 11, 2002 | Daily Business Review

    Second Front

    A Hollywood, Fla., lawyer has become one of the first military reservists in the country since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to file a lawsuit based on a federal law that prohibits employers

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  • May 9, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Aetna's $200 Million Lawsuit Fails

    A Philadelphia Commerce Court judge has dismissed a $200 million lawsuit in which Aetna sought from its excess insurance providers coverage related to the defending and settling of at least tw

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