• February 6, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Will New SG Lead to Sharp Turn at High Court?

    WASHINGTON - During oral arguments on Dec. 9, the assistant to U.S. Solicitor General Toby Heytens told the U.S. Supreme Court that police can legitimately frisk someone on the street on

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  • August 4, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Mix of Wins and Losses

    Miriam R. Nemetz is a partner in the Supreme Court and appellate practice group in the Washington office of Chicago's Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. She submitted amicus briefs in Green Tree

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  • March 7, 2007 | Legal Times

    Law school Supreme Court clinics make their mark

    Just three years ago the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, the first of its kind, filed its inaugural petition with the Supreme Court. Since then the Supreme Court c

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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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  • June 27, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Court Declines to Hear Challenge to Terroristic Threat Law The Court of Appeals has declined to hear an appeal of the constitutionality of Penal Law �490.20, the terroristic thr

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  • April 6, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    FLDS One Year Later April 3 marked the one-year anniversary of the biggest family law case in Texas history — In the Interest of 330 Children From the YFZ Ranc

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  • January 7, 2008 | Legal Times

    K Street Monitor

    Highlights of recent registrations filed by lobbyists with the secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House. A database of registrations is available to a href="http://www.influence.bi

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  • June 1, 2009 | Law.com Corporate

    The Work

    "It's not alternative financing. But it is a different flavor of financing." --Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft's G

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  • February 29, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Circuit Sends $8.5 Bil. BofA Settlement Back to State Court

    Bank of America's $8.5 billion settlement with investors over mortgage-backed securities is returning to state court. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday said the Class Act

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  • July 17, 2006 | Legal Times

    The Unsinkable Center

    When President George W. Bush had the opportunity to name two justices this past term, everyone knew the Supreme Court would move dramatically to the right. The logic seemed ines

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