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  • Rice v. Harken Exploration Company

    Publication Date: 2001-04-27
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    Date Filed: 2001-04-25
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: Garwood, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 99-11229

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of TexasPlaintiffs-appellants D.E. and Karen Rice (the Rices) filed this suit against defendant-appellee Harken Exploration Co

  • August 22, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    11th Circuit: Firing Counsel Equals Waiving Right to One

    Reversing course from rulings by three-judge panels, the full 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled unanimously that criminal defendants' rejection of their appointed counsel can amount to a

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  • In Re: Dreier LLP, Debtor, 08-15051 (SMB)

    Publication Date: 2011-05-23
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: Judge Stuart M. Bernstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: ALSTON & BIRD LLP; Attorneys for Plaintiffs, New York, NY: Craig Carpenito, Esq., Alexander S. Lorenzo, Esq. Of Counsel; John E. Stephenson, Jr., Esq. Of Counsel, Atlanta, GA
    for defendant: SCHULTE ROTH & ZABEL LLP: Attorneys for Defendant JANA Partners LLC, New York, NY; Michael E. Swartz, Esq., Nicole Z. Davidson, Esq. Of Counsel DIAMOND MCCARTHY LLP: Attorneys for Defendant Sheila M. Gowan, Chapter 11 Trustee of the Estate New York, NY; Howard D. Ressler, Esq., Stephen T. Loden, Esq., Amos Elberg, Esq., Of Counsel.
    Case Number: 08-15051 (SMB)

    Cite as: In Re Dreier LLP, 08-15051, NYLJ [web_id_#], at *1 (SDNY, Decided May 23, 2011)Judge Stuart M. BernsteinDecided: May 23,

  • September 23, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    In The Trenches: Senior legal hotline hit with budget cuts

    Laid-off lawyers looking to transition into the growing field of elder law, take note. The Georgia Senior Legal Hotline needs volunteer attorneys after having its funding disappear in

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  • June 2, 2010 | National Law Journal

    U.S. attorney takes job with Jones Day in San Diego

    Karen P. Hewitt, the outgoing U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, will join the trial practice group at Jones Day's San Diego office. Hewitt, whose resignation

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  • October 21, 2003 | Legal Times

    Steady Stream of Bush Lawyers Heading to Private Firms

    WASHINGTON -- Call it the three-year itch.With just over 14 months left in the Bush administration's first term, the trickle of top administration lawyers heading back to private pract

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  • May 1, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Texas' Top Deals of 2005

    The following deals were announced in 2005. CONOCOPHILLIPS CO. Acquisition of BURLINGTON RESOURCES INC. Description: ConocoPhillips Co. of Houston, an integrated petrole

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  • January 12, 2005 | National Law Journal

    RICO Class Actions

    In recent years, the plaintiffs' bar creatively has pursued class action claims under the federal RICO statutes. See generally 18 U.S.C. 1961-1968 (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizatio

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  • March 5, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Top Law Firms Undergo a Rainbow Revolution

    IN HIS FAMOUS dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down Texas's same-sex sodomy law, Antonin Scalia railed against the legal profession for embracing

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  • January 27, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Good health at any cost

    "Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also victim of his blood sugar." Wilfrid G. Oakley, British physician In tough economic times when every billable hour counts, at its

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