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September 21, 2012 |

State Bar Honors Public Service

The New York State Bar Association's Committee on Attorneys in Public Service honored two New York City lawyers with 2012 Citations for Special Achievement in Public Service at a Sept. 19 reception.
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June 02, 2009 |

Saul Ewing Takes Seven From Buchanan Ingersoll in Del.

Saul Ewing expanded the size of its 12-lawyer Wilmington, Del., office by more than 50 percent this week with the addition of seven attorneys, including three partners, from Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney's office there.
6 minute read
November 10, 2003 |

Sharon Duggan (Plaintiffs)

Sharon Duggan has turned many heads over the past 25 years, taking on timber giants such as Pacific Lumber & Shipping Co. and Georgia-Pacific Corp., as well as state and federal forest services. "If you look at the case law on [California's] Forest Practices Act," says Iryna Kwasny of Oakland's Environmental Law Foundation, "Sharon is the attorney on almost every single one." Duggan's gone on to make a career of challenging lumber companies and government agencies that don't comply with forestry practices.
2 minute read
November 03, 2008 |

GC Quits Troubled Valley Tech Company

Valley tech company Cadence Design Systems has "revenue reporting problems," a class action, and now its GC resigns. Also Blogged: Who, besides Matt Larrabee, landed a job last week? We've got about a dozen attorneys finding homes at six firms. And: On Tuesday, the county board of supervisors will vote on whether to settle a $380,000 attorneys fees claim with the NRA and a host of other plaintiffs. Plus: Our Halloween jokes? Still funny! And our radio debut!
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December 11, 2006 |

TL Opinion

Some Texas firms, such as Locke Liddell & Sapp, work hard to bring a happy holiday season to low-income children. And the Texas Trial Lawyers Association could not have found a more deserving recipient of its inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award than Broadus A. Spivey, a past president of TTLA.
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February 03, 2012 |

NBCUniversal's GC stays in the limelight

Richard Cotton, the executive vice president and general counsel of NBCUniversal Media LLC, doesn't mind the limelight. He goes on talk shows like "Charlie Rose," testifies before Congress, and often meets journalists for breakfast at the caf overlooking the ice skating rink at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City.
3 minute read
January 13, 2009 |

Voting rights law under high court review

Days before the first black president takes office, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider overturning a key feature of the main federal law that ensures access to the polls by minorities. The justices said they will review a lower court ruling upholding a provision of the Voting Rights Act that requires all or parts of 16 states with a history of racial discrimination, most in the South, to get approval before implementing any changes in the way elections are held.
3 minute read
August 27, 2004 |

Pro Bono Publico

Anthony Perez Cassino, the assistant director of public service at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, writes that anyone who hopes to adopt a child may face more than their share of frustration and disappointment. A mountain of bureaucratic red tape often leads to delays that last for years. These delays are harmful to all children, but for children in foster care, it can be particularly devastating.
4 minute read
April 30, 2009 |

White supremacist executed in Ga. for 1994 murder

JACKSON, Ga. AP - A Georgia man convicted of murdering one of the followers of his white supremacist group insisted that he was not to blame for the killing shortly before he was put to death Wednesday evening.William Mark Mize, 52, said the legal system refused to accept that another one of his followers may have been responsible for the 1994 murder of Eddie Tucker, who was shot to death after he failed to follow Mize's orders.
3 minute read
August 28, 2002 |

Disabled Entitled to Same Sight Line in Theaters

Expanding on other courts' decisions, a federal judge in New York has held that a movie theater providing handicapped patrons with an unobstructed sight line to the screen has not necessarily complied with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Rather, the judge found, the law implicitly requires a qualitative element demanding an analysis into whether the sight lines available to ambulatory and wheelchair customers are comparable.
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