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  • March 26, 2001 | Daily Business Review

    World of Intrigue

    Miami lawyer Jose Astigarraga was in Ecuador five years ago trying to enforce a loan obligation for a global bank. The case kept getting bogged down in legal red tape.He brought in loc

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  • October 17, 2001 | Daily Business Review

    Less Urge to Merge

    Merger and acquisition activity has dropped to the lowest level in nearly five years, according to Mergerstat, the data and market tracking division of Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, a Wes

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  • September 7, 2000 | Daily Business Review

    The Buddy System

    Arnis Borgs didn't know he was going to wind up helping millions of fellow non-unionized workers that day in 1996 when he was called into his boss' office for a likely tongue-lashing.B

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  • September 8, 2004 | Daily Business Review

    Storm Brews Over Employer Liability for Workers Called In During Hurricane Frances

    South Florida's labor and employment lawyers got some unexpected business due to Hurricane Frances and Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle.As the storm threatened Sout

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  • June 9, 2003 | The Minority Law Journal

    Familiar Faces

    Stability is the big theme of the latest Diversity Scorecard, our third annual survey of minority hiring at the nation's largest law firms. A total of 215 firms gave us numbers on their minori

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  • May 26, 2008 | National Law Journal

    The law fits the crime

    On May 15, Lori Drew, a 49-year-old woman from Missouri, was indicted by a Los Angeles federal grand jury for using a MySpace account to torment and harass a 13-year-old girl who,

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  • December 27, 2004 | Alm

    Should Auld Acquaintance Forget Themselves at the Office Party

    In a world where the high spirits of December's office holiday party can give way to the high cost of January's lawsuit, the briefcases of attorneys have more in store for the workplace than S

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  • June 21, 2001 | Daily Business Review

    Higher Interest

    When the Florida Supreme Court in 1989 began requiring lawyers to pool small amounts of money that they hold in trust for clients into interest-bearing checking accounts to help fund indigent

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  • September 10, 2001 | Daily Business Review

    Truth or Dare?

    Kmart has been Bartimous Berry's primary shopping destination for many years, whether it's for school supplies for his two children or houseplants for his home. The Miami longshoreman is alway

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  • April 28, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Decision of InterestJudge BrientIn Re: NewPower Holdings, Inc. Securities Litigation - In this private securities fraud class action regulated by the Private Securities

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