• November 6, 2013 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    FDIC to Appeal $374 Mil. Windfall for Downey Creditors

    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has filed a notice of appeal in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware seeking to overturn last month's decision by the Delaware bankruptcy c

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  • November 1, 2013 | Daily Report Online

    Cardboard Memories

    For boys of a certain generation, collecting baseball cards was as integral to their lives as reading comic books and watching Saturday morning cartoons. After becoming adults, the va

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  • October 31, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    New York State Bar Results

    Following is the list issued by the State Board of Law Examiners of the names of the 8,098 candidates who passed the bar examination given on July 30 and 31. Of the 11,694 candidates who too

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  • October 31, 2013 | Daily Report Online

    Strategy for 'New Model' Law Firms

    Rather than trying to "seize the future," most of America's major business practice law firms are trying to solidify the present. There are good reasons for the firms to

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  • October 29, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    July 2013 Pennsylvania Bar Exam Results Announced

    The Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners on Oct. 18 announced the results of the bar examination given July 30 and 31. Of the 2,117 applicants who took the examination, 1,637 passed; the overa

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  • October 24, 2013 | International

    Asia Deal Digest: October 24, 2013

    China/Hong Kong Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has advised China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., better known as Sinopec, on a second $3.5

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  • October 21, 2013 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Associates Class of 2013

    Things just keep looking up for associate hiring at New Jersey’s larger firms. Since 2010, there’s been a steady rise in staffing rates, and it continued this year. Though weR

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  • Burger v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-09-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Scott Key, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy Floyd, James Wright, District Attorneys, and Alicia Gant, McDonough, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A0900

    Trial counsel was not ineffective in failing to tender into evidence certified copies of the co-defendants' convictions for impeachment purposes, although the better practice would have been to

  • Taylor Morrison Servs. Inc. v. HDI-Gerling Am. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2013-07-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie A. Lierly, Caroline W. Spangenberg, and Ellen P. McCarley Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amicus Appellant: Anthony P. Tatum King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, Kevin P. Branch, Dana M. Mango McMickle, Kurey & Branch LLP, Alpharetta, Zachary D. Tripp, Martin M. McNerney, Taylor T. Lankford King & Spalding LLP, Washington, D. C., and Ryan M. Suerth, Madison, Conn. Michael P. Bruyere Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, and Ann T. Kirk Fields Howell Athans & McLaughlin LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellee: Linda B. Foster Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, John S. Berry McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, Laura Foggan, and Matthew W. Beato Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D. C.

    Case Number: S13Q0462

    The Supreme Court answered two certified questions related a standard commercial general liability insurance p

  • Ramotar v. The Kroger Co.

    Publication Date: 2013-06-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Stuckey Stuckey Law Firm LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Stephanie Capezzuto Taylor English Duma LLP, Atlanta, and Douglas Wilde, Tyrone, for appellees.

    Case Number: A13A0158

    An issue of fact remained regarding a grocery store's constructive knowledge of a puddle of oil on the floor, which caused the plaintiff to slip and