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  • January 15, 2009 | Legal Times

    Report: Politics, ideology drove hiring in DOJ's civil rights branch

    A report released this week by the Justice Department's two watchdogs says the former head of the Civil Rights Division routinely violated federal law and department policy by using political

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  • June 23, 2000 |

    Briefs Encounter

    Clive Coleman wears so many different hats he's in danger of wearing out his head. Coleman is barrister, law-lecturer, motivator, performer, after-dinner speaker -� oh yes, and writer of "Cham

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  • January 9, 2010 | Law.com Corporate

    Filings of Note

    Client Registered Lobby/Law Firm Lobbyists Issues Aero Union Corporation- Patton Boggs -Darryl Nirenberg and Eliza

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  • April 1, 2004 | Daily Report Online

    Spy vs. spy and sam vs. the spammers

    Little did he know that six years later he'd be general counsel of the third-largest Internet company in the United States. In that role, DeSimone has overseen several multimillion-dollar leg

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  • October 31, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    Pfizer Litigators Endure Beast of a Beauty Contest

    It was a cold day for a beauty contest. On a blustery morning last December, a small army of product liability lawyers tried not to slip on the ice as they made their way to the Plaza Hotel in

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  • July 14, 2010 | Daily Report Online

    After eight years, airport trial opens

    Attorneys for an Atlanta billboard company has for years sought to secure a contract worth millions at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport said in opening statements Tuesday

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  • March 8, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Voir Dire

    Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord Detroit's text-messaging scandal has gone biblical, with prosecutors and defense lawyers quoting scripture while squabbling

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  • July 17, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Judges scold ex-mayor in appeal

    THE FEDERAL APPEALS judges who last week upheld former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell's 30-month prison sentence did a lot more than reject his legal arguments: In scorching commentary, they dre

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  • April 4, 2005 | Legal Times

    Logjam in U.S.-Canada Trade Dispute

    Canada and the United States may be going chain saw to chain saw in their long-running trade showdown over lumber imports, but at least one Washington group in the fight is in no danger

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  • August 29, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Dewey's Dead File Conundrum

    Among the detritus of Dewey & LeBoeuf's collapse are client files—hundred of thousands of boxes of unclaimed files that are sitting in offices and storage facilities ar

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