• May 4, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Morgan Stanley Fired Kirland -- But Who Really Did What?

    He didn't yell, "You're fired!", but it was just as dramatic. Close to 5 p.m. on March 22, only days before a high-stakes trial was set to begin, Morgan Stanley chief legal officer Donald Kemp

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  • October 3, 2007 | Legal Times

    Telling Your Trial's Future

    In selecting a jury and shaping how a case is presented at trial, it is extremely helpful to know the demographic, attitudinal and experiential characteristics of the actual venire. Voir di

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  • December 13, 2001 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Federal Judge Lets Stand Arbitrator's Split Call on Umpires

    A federal judge Thursday decided the fates of the 22 major league baseball umpires who lost their jobs in 1999 after they joined a mass resignation campaign that backfired when management call

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  • April 1, 2010 | Law.com Corporate

    Columns

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  • August 28, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf Lamb to Merge

    Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae have agreed to merge, creating a firm of more than 1,300 lawyers.Expected to become effective by October, subject to partner approval,

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  • November 30, 2007 | The Recorder

    Discovering a Patent Troll

    When he first saw it, David Bloch thought the patent infringement lawsuit against client Discover Financial Services was just another troll case in the rocket-docket Eastern District of Texas.

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  • February 24, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    On Eve of Trial, Elmann Pleads Guilty in Garson Matter The businessman accused of being at the center of a scheme to collect bribes from litigants before former Brooklyn

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  • October 17, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Summer Associates Survey 2011: A Season In the Sun

    Law students who spent the past summer working at some of the nation's largest firms went into their jobs knowing the negative reputation that life at such firms can have. They ended

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  • January 21, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Prosecutors Attack Death Row Clemencies

    Outraged prosecutors have begun trying to undo Illinois ex-Gov. George Ryan's mass commutations which emptied the state's death row.Defense lawyers say they are confident that the chal

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  • April 4, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    City May Review Bond Counsel

    NEW YORK City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. is weighing whether to seek new lawyers to help shepherd the city's bond issues to market, according to his spokeswoman, Nicole Lise.Mr. Tho

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