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  • May 18, 2006 |

    Companies Try New Approach: Settling for More

    Lopping three years off a patent to settle litigation doesn't seem like the kind of strategy investors would applaud. But in December 2005, when Cephalon Inc. announced that as part of an agreement

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  • May 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Profits Up, Partners Out

    The bi-coastal firm Thelen Reid & Priest has a lot to crow about. Fiscal year 2005 saw profits jump by a third, growth unparalleled since the firm was created in a 1998 merger. Both averag

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  • January 17, 2007 | Legal Times

    Supreme Court Hears Texas Death Penalty Cases

    The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in three Texas death-penalty cases that were billed as a test of wills between the high court and lower-court judges who have effectively defi

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  • October 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Tilting at Windmills

    It doesn't look like Houston will go the way of Detroit anytime soon. Lawyers who specialize in energy projects are leading the development of power from nontraditional, renewable source

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  • May 12, 2004 | The Recorder

    Contribution Quagmire

    As the election year gets under way, it's important for general counsel at politically active corporations to review federal election laws and to look at how the Bipartisan Campaign Refo

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  • February 28, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Zuckerman Spaeder (Washington): Francis Carter joins as partner in the firm's home office. Most recently a solo practitioner, he is a former director

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  • December 22, 2009 | Daily Business Review

    Will more firms re-defer their incoming first-years?

    After Nixon Peabody announced it would again defer two-thirds of first-year associates already deferred until January, other firms were contacted to see if they were making any last-minute scheduli

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  • April 21, 2003 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible

    MERGER MATES: ARE GOOD ONES TAKEN?When it comes to law firm mergers, the frenzy is abating. Law firm combinations nationwide during the first three months of 2003 were dow

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  • May 18, 2009 | National Law Journal

    In a closing, argue, don't summarize

    Closing argument is, in many respects, one of the easier tasks in ­trying a case. After all, by the time you get down to the nitty-gritty of preparing the argument, you will have a

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  • May 11, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Duane Morris Names New Managing Partner in N.Y. Duane Morris has appointed partner Michael Grohman as managing partner of the firm's New York office. With more than 100

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