• October 11, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

    N.J. Mergers & Acquisitions

    Paterson's Cytec To Pay $1.8B for UCB's Surface Specialties Division Cytec Industries of West Paterson, a specialty chemicals company, agreed Oct. 1 to pay $1.8 billion for U

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  • June 7, 2000 | Legal Times

    Business Boost For Health Care Lawyers

    After a long respite in the shadow of their high-tech partners, some Washington, D.C.-area health care lawyers are following their clients into the Internet arena -- and picking up new ones al

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  • April 20, 2006 | The Recorder

    Circuit Expands Whistle-Blower Definition

    If beagles could laugh, they'd get the last guffaw in a case involving a doctor who tried to give the small hounds cancer and an animal rights group attempting to stop him by taking on the rol

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  • May 1, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Court Adopts Flexible Standard on Patents

    WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a major patent law development, the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday adopted a new, flexible standard that will make it easier for patents to be denied or challenged on the g

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  • April 15, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Justices take up workplace privacy with text message case

    The Supreme Court on Monday leaps into the high-tech world of text messaging in a challenge with potentially huge implications for the privacy rights of senders and receivers and for workplace

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  • July 2, 2007 | Daily Business Review

    Some Law Firms Reach Out to Gay Attorneys

    Richard A. Wilson, chairman of the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association, recalls that as recently as 2002 only a couple of law firms made the trip to recruit at the group's Lavender Law Ca

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  • June 17, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Greenberg Traurig Hires Maher for London Launch Greenberg Traurig is set to launch a London office with the addition of former Mayer Brown partner Paul Maher. Mr. Maher is joining

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  • December 2, 2005 | The Recorder

    The Part-Time Predicament

    At the tiny litigation boutique of Caldwell, Leslie, Newcombe & Pettit, partner Robyn Crowther discovered that balancing the workload of an impending trial with the demands of a new infant

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  • October 3, 2003 | The American Lawyer

    Schools Dazed

    The ivory tower has never completely isolated scholars from the grubbiness of life on earth. For decades sports teams, federal research grants, and museums all have brought cash through univer

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  • February 23, 2006 | The Recorder

    A Key Factor for Associate Raises: Location, Location, Location

    The legal world may be getting flatter, but when it comes to associate salaries, the playing field still isn't level. As firms across the country lift associate salaries, some are opting to

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