• DePietro v. City of New York, 09-CV-932

    Publication Date: 2010-02-10
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    Date Filed: 2010-01-29
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District
    Judge: Sandra Townes
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    Case Number: 09-CV-932

    District Judge Sandra L. Townes U.S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Judge Townes Memorandum and Or

  • January 11, 2000 | Legal Times

    The Medium Is the Massage

    When Vasiliki Tsaganos, a corporate partner in the D.C. office of New York's Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, wanted to reward her associates for putting in long hours on a tech compan

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  • May 8, 2009 | The Recorder

    Time to Consider Gay Nominee to U.S. Supreme Court

    Any week now, the California Supreme Court will release its opinion upholding Proposition 8, cementing California as a state that forbids same-sex marriage. The justices a href="http://www.law.com

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  • October 10, 2013 | The Recorder

    Viewpoint: Coming out and Speaking up in the Legal Profession

    Oct. 11 is National Coming Out Day, an internationally celebrated day established to mark the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, attended by a half-million people. This mar

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  • Lombardi v. Whitman, 06-1077-cv

    Publication Date: 2007-04-25
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    Date Filed: 2007-04-19
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Dennis Jacobs
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    Case Number: 06-1077-cv

    U.S. COURT OF APPEALS SECOND CIRCUIT Stephen J. Riegel, Weitz & Luxemberg, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants. Mark B. Stern, Appellate Staff,

  • December 22, 2009 | National Law Journal

    For Associates, a Decade of Thrills and Chills

    It was a wild ride for associates at big law firms during the first decade of the century. In the end, most everyone was a little queasy from the experience. Between 2000 and 2009, law firms

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  • October 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Fallen Star

    In the summer of 1967, police brutality, poverty, and despair led Newark's Central Ward to erupt in racial violence. Six days of rioting left 23 people dead, 725 injured, and the neighborhood

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  • Prostar v. Masachi

    Publication Date: 2001-01-22
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    Date Filed: 2001-01-17
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: KING, Chief Judge, and HIGGINBOTHAM and DUHI, Circuit Judges
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    Case Number: No. 00-30268

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. PER CURIAM:This case presents us with the task of determining the appropriate statute of limitations for an action

  • December 31, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Legal OnRamp Founder Sells Its Virtues

    "Success is not correlated with legal quality. Because no one knows what that is." Paul Lippe is at it again, jabbing at the conventions of the legal profession. This time

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  • Ruffin v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-12-10
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    Date Filed: 2008-12-10
    Court: Tex. Crim. App.
    Judge: Cochran, J.
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    Case Number: NO. PD-1482-07 through PD-1489-07

    OPINIONAppellant was charged with first-degree aggravated assault by shooting at ten police officers during an armed "standoff" on his rural property in Coryell County. He contended that he was suf