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  • October 18, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Expect the unexpected

    If "funny people are smart people and lawyers are smart people," as Shawn Westfall maintains, does that mean lawyers are funny people While the answer is clear to a logician, the puzz

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  • July 13, 2009 | National Law Journal

    40 Under 40

    Nostradamus is not on our payroll so The National Law Journal can't report the future today. But we can make some predictions. One is that the young Washington-area lawyers profiled

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  • September 30, 2013 | National Law Journal

    D.C. Law Firms Are Learning to Love Austerity

    Among Washington's largest law offices, more grew and fewer cut lawyers in 2012 than in the previous year, the annual Legal Times 150 survey shows. But even firms that expanded th

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  • August 29, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Beware Corporate Counsel's Unauthorized Practice

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo once observed that "[m]embership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."[FOOTNOTE 1] One of those conditions

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  • July 12, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Fake Immigration Attorney Gets 6-Month Jail Sentence A man who posed as an immigration attorney for nearly 20 years was sentenced last week to six months in jail. The Ma

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  • August 21, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Skadden Arps, Winston Advise On Military Manufacturer DealSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is advising Parsippany, NJ-based defense electronic company DRS Tech

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  • July 10, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Winston, Munger Get Appellate Win for Abbott Labs in HIV Drug Case

    In December 2003, Abbott Laboratories quadrupled the price of its HIV drug Norvir, from $1.71 for a day to $8.57. While the move earned the company enmity from some AIDS patients and doctors (activist

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  • February 5, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Veteran Prosecutor Named Inspector General Kristine Hamann, the executive assistant district attorney in Manhattan, was appointed state inspector general on Friday. Ms. Hamann,

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  • January 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Class Acts

    We've never granted Honorable Mention kudos to as many Litigation Department of the Year contenders as we have this year--but that's because we've never before seen such stellar resul

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  • July 25, 2005 | The Recorder

    Among the Giants

    Last year General Electric Corp. pared back the number of law firms it uses from nearly 500 to 94. Three on the list are in the San Francisco Bay Area -- but they aren't the mega firms you mig

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