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  • May 13, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Patriot Act Leads Banking Practice To Branch Out

    Casinos, retail stores, online financial companies, securities firms, money-transfer businesses . . . It's not just banks anymore that are worried about money-laundering regulatio

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  • February 4, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Troubled Town Turns on its Nixon Peabody Lawyers

    Bell, California, briefly occupied the nation's attention when the Los Angeles Times made front-page news of rumors that the troubled city in an unglamorous section of Los Angeles Coun

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  • December 7, 2005 |

    Being GC at Dole: Not a Doleful Position

    As a young man in his 20s, C. Michael Carter did quite well managing his family's businesses, including a historic New Orleans nightclub, a semi-professional baseball team and a construction c

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  • October 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Back In Black

    Perhaps no corporate scandal of recent years has created such wide-ranging troubles as the stock option backdating mess. Companies have spent untold millions on legal fees for independent inve

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  • March 12, 2007 | The Recorder

    Criminal Law

    Most employment lawyers have a basic understanding of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and its corporate responsibility program requirements. Few, however, know about the Federal Sentencing Guid

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  • January 26, 2010 | The Recorder

    Proposition 8 Defense Seeks to Show Gays Have Power

    After two weeks of witnesses called by plaintiffs challenging Proposition 8, the defense's case finally got under way Monday. Kenneth Miller, a political science professor at Claremont McKe

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  • February 13, 2007 |

    Severance Waivers Are an Endangered Species

    When involuntary employment terminations become necessary, employers often seek protection from possible post-employment claims by conditioning severance pay on the signing of a general release and

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  • May 1, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

    Feeling The Heat

    PeopleSoft, Inc., general counsel Anne Jordan notified the company late last year that she planned to resign some time in 2004, despite the protracted hostile takeover battle with Oracl

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  • March 31, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Moving Outside the Beltway

    Fresh hope is at hand for New York litigators and trial attorneys uncomfortable in the role of hard-charger � and who long for the days of high-minded, Socratic explorations deep into the bell

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  • October 20, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    Go Bananas!* Dole Drops Lawsuit Against Documentary Maker

    The Dole Food Company on Wednesday dropped its defamation lawsuit against the Swedish filmmaker who created the movie

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