• August 11, 2000 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    GE Wins Millions From DirecTV

    GE Capital has zapped the nation's top satellite TV broadcaster, DirecTV, with a stunning $133 million jury verdict in federal court in New Haven, Conn. The verdict, apparently a state record,

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  • June 19, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    WorldCom Reports Criticize Legal Department

    "The significance of the role of lawyers may not be as great at WorldCom as in some other companies. It's probably one reason why we're as successful as we've been."That was P. Bruce B

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  • January 8, 2004 | Alm

    Court May Add Terrorism Cases to Its Docket

    With at least one terrorism-related case already on its docket, the Supreme Court is poised to add two more, setting the stage for a term dominated by issues of civil liberties in the time of

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  • January 8, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Justices Cool To Cruelty Risk Of Lethal Drugs

    WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday appeared unconvinced that the lethal-injection procedure used for capital punishment nationwide poses enough risk of pain to inmates that it raise

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  • April 21, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Court Hears Many Voices in One Case

    On Supreme Court shelves lined with the red-, blue-, white- and gray-jacketed briefs identifying the various players in each case, the green amicus briefs usually stand out like toy soldiers in a l

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  • October 24, 2007 | National Law Journal

    MPAA GC Is Ready for His Close-Up

    Name and title: Gregory P. Goeckner, executive vice president and general counsel Age: 51 Roll 'em: Since 1922, when movies were silent and television was a labor

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  • June 14, 2010 | Bloomberg

    E-mails give window into Lehman's last days

    "Just between us," it may be "stupid" to use certain words in e-mail to "discuss" the "big trouble" you might face if you're ever investigated for financial wrongdoing or a subsequent cover-

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  • October 9, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Why Do We Work?

    Lawyers practice a difficult and demanding profession. They expect to be well compensated. In thinking about what that means, it can help to consider the basic question, "Why do we work?" Samu

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  • July 24, 2003 | Alm

    New Standards in Death Penalty Cases Predicted

    A new era of tougher scrutiny of defense lawyers' work in death penalty trials is expected as the result of an end-of-term U.S. Supreme Court ruling. In a case that was largely oversh

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  • November 5, 2007 | Legal Times

    Mukasey May Wind Up as an AG on a Short Leash

    Initially, one of Michael Mukasey's strongest assets as the attorney general nominee had less to do with who he was and everything to do with who he was not: Alberto Gonzales. Senators laude

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