• January 17, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Superior Court Again Affirms $20 Mil. Med Mal Verdict

    For the second time in two years, a Superior Court panel has affirmed the $20 million compensatory damages verdict a Philadelphia jury awarded in the fall of 2003 to a former Penn student whos

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  • DeVita v Macy's East, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2007-01-25
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    SCHMIDT, J.P., SKELOS, FISHER, DILLON, JJ. Vincent DeVita, et al., plaintiffs-respondents, v Macy's East, Inc., et al., defendants third and second third-party plaintiffs ap

  • United States v. Chastity Hawkins

    Publication Date: 2005-08-16
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    U.S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Judge Weinstein I. Introduction The government appealed from the district court's grant of a downward depart

  • Professional Engineers in California Government v. Schwarzenegger

    Publication Date: 2010-10-04
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    Date Filed: 2010-10-04
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Offices of Brooks Ellison and Patrick J. Whalen for Plaintiffs and Appellants California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers in State Employment. Paul Harris and Anne M. Giese for Plaintiff and Appellant Service Employees International Union Local 1000. Gerald A. James; Altshuler Berzon, Stephen P. Berzon and Danielle Leonard for Plaintiffs and Appellants Professional Engineers in California Government and California Association of Professional Scientists. Reed Smith, Harvey L. Leiderman and Jeffrey R. Rieger for Teachers? Retirement Board of the California State Teachers? Retirement System as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants. Kelly Vent as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Richard J. Chivaro, Ronald V. Placet, Shawn D. Silva, Ana Maria Garza; Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, Robin B. Johansen and Margaret R. Prinzing for Defendant and Appellant. K. William Curtis, Warren C. Stracener, Linda A. Mayhew, Will M. Yamada; Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, David W. Tyra, Kristianne T. Seargeant and Meredith H. Packer for Defendants and Respondents. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Gordon B. Burns, Deputy State Solicitor General, Jonathan K. Renner, Assistant Attorney General, James M. Humes Stephen P. Acquisto and Mark R. Beckington, Deputy Attorneys General, for California Constitutional Officers as Amicus Curiae.

    Case Number: No. S183411

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 12808PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS IN CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT, et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. p class="casenam

  • December 17, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Williams & Connolly Presents Defense of K&L Gates in Le-Nature Negligence Suit

    Doing internal investigations for a company in trouble is usually a plum assignment. That is, until the firm is later accused of failing to detect fraud at the company, and is sued for negligence.br

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  • April 3, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Inadmissible

    April Fool - Browsers of www.politicsnj.com must have dropped their jaws on Friday when the featured story announced that Gov. Jo

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  • October 6, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Hitchcock v. State

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  • April 29, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    White-Collar Crime

    The concept of "defense witness immunity" is not well-known to many criminal practitioners. When we think of immunity for witnesses, we think of the government granting immunity to its witness

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  • Light v Light

    Publication Date: 2009-07-14
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    Case Number: 2008-03589

    Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department ROBERT A. SPOLZINO, J.P. MARK C. DILLON HOWARD MILLER THOMAS A. DIC

  • DiBella v Martz

    Publication Date: 2009-01-08
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    Case Number: 505088

    Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Third Judicial Department Decided and Entered: January 8, 2009 505088 JOSEPH F