• July 31, 2009 | Special To Law.Com

    Commentary: The Real Battle for the Federal Judiciary

    After President Barack Obama wins confirmation of his first Supreme Court nominee, the Court will still lean conservative. And it will still decide only a handful of cases each year. The lower cour

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  • November 22, 2010 | National Law Journal

    CIVIL ACTIONS

    The following cases were recently filed in Washington-area district courts. This information is provided by the courts' official online bulletins. U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR

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  • July 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    The Enemy of My Friend

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton litiga tion associate David Rush was a newly minted lawyer in 2002 when he took on his first Tibetan client, a teenager who claimed he was beaten and

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  • February 2, 2009 | Legal Times

    Justice Begins Stocking Ranks

    Eric Holder Jr. and David Ogden, two men who have split their time since the mid-1990s between Main Justice and Big Law, are drawing on that experience to recruit their top assist

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  • December 6, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Which Firms Cashed In on Recession Bankruptcy Work?

    More than two years later, Weil Gotshal & Manges partner Harvey Miller still has a tone of indignation in his voice when he recalls the chaos that surrounded the days lea

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  • May 25, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Calendar of D.C. Events

    Wednesday,  May 27 Charitable contributions: The Exempt Organizations Committee of the D.C. Bar's Taxation Section presents a luncheon progr

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  • June 28, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Police see value of videotaping

    A trembling voice, sweating brow and shaking leg: When interviewing suspects, Jon Priest of the Denver Police Department considers these mannerisms to be indicators that he is being lie

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  • November 21, 2008 | Legal Times

    Election Creates Critical Moment for Liberal Law Group

    The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy just hit the ideological jackpot. Barack Obama is about to take the oath of office, Democrats have won wide majorities in Congress and so

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  • June 26, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Labor Relations Board

    New Five-Member Panel May Spell Reversal for Several Cases A LONG-anticipated shift in power at the National Labor Relations Board has experts predicting the reversal of a slew o

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  • September 15, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Climate Change

    Free: 'Green' Is So Appealing/

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