• Blackman v. Stagno

    Publication Date: 2006-04-18
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    Court: Supreme Court, Westchester County
    Judge: Francis Nicolai
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    WESTCHESTER COUNTY Supreme Court Justice Nicolai This defamation action arose out of a

  • July 17, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Higher Calling: A Small Firm Evolves, And So Do Its Attorneys

    As the bailiff was about to open the back door to the Dallas County Criminal District Court No. 7 courtroom and escort in 12 jurors, prosecutor Andy Beach took a deep breath, held it and exhal

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  • May 18, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Controlling costs has never been more important

    It is no secret that law firms are being dramatically affected by the economic crisis. To stabilize their finances and ensure that they can operate into the future, many firms are imposin

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  • Fairbank v. Ayers

    Publication Date: 2011-02-15
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    Date Filed: 2011-02-15
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Sidney R. Thomas, and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges. Opinion by Judge Thomas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Raymond Drozdowski, Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, California, for the appellant.
    for defendant: Nanette Sue Winaker, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for the appellee.

    Case Number: No. 08-99018

    Cite as 11 C.D.O.S. 2077ROBERT GREEN FAIRBANK, Petitioner-Appellant, v.ROBERT L. AYERS, Jr., Warden for Californ

  • November 2, 2005 | The Associated Press

    Legal Crusader Reissues 19th Century 'Dead Alive' Novel

    As executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University's law school, Rob Warden is an expert on miscarriages of justice. So it's natural that he would be drawn to t

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  • November 1, 2004 | Legal Times

    She's Rolling in the Dough

    "I have no love of the baking process. I love the product," says Shelia McCann.Not a typical baker, former attorney McCann opened the House of Bread, a retail bakery in San Luis

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  • April 1, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

    Caught in the Middle

    The greatest challenge for general counsel and other inside lawyers is to reconcile the dual-and at times contradictory-roles of being both a partner to the business leaders and a guardian of

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  • March 5, 2004 | Daily Report Online

    Crematory's 'Unspeakable Disrespect' on Trial

    When friends tossed Chattanooga, Tenn., attorney Robert Crawford Jr.'s cremated remains into the wind on his favorite golf course, the ashes sparkled as the sunlight caught them. Crawford's si

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  • August 25, 2003 | Daily Report Online

    On the Rise

    Tom Barry Special to the Daily Report Carl E. Sanders was 29 when he made what many people must have considered a career-killing move. "Back then, if you wanted

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  • United States v. Passaro

    Publication Date: 2009-08-20
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    Date Filed: 2009-08-10
    Court: 4th Cir.
    Judge: Diana Gribbon Motz, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: Nos. 07-4249 & 07-4339

    PUBLISHEDArgued: March 27, 2009Before WILKINSON, MOTZ, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.Affirmed in part and vacated and remanded in part by published opinion. Judge Motz wrote the opinion, in whi