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April 21, 2005 |

Congress Sends Bush Bill to Let Parents Strip Smut From Movies

Fledgling technology that helps parents prevent children from watching movie scenes depicting sex, violence or foul language won new legal protections Tuesday under a bill Congress is sending to President Bush. The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act also would make it a federal crime to use video cameras to record films in movie theaters, and it would set tough penalties of up to 10 years in prison for anyone caught distributing a movie or song prior to its commercial release.
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August 30, 2004 |

This Song Is My Song, This Song Is Your Song

The publishers of Woody Guthrie's classic "This Land Is Your Land" and JibJab Media, creators of an animated Internet short that uses the tune in a comic send-up of President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaigns, agreed in a settlement last week to allow the cartoon to keep using the song. The cartoon -- in which equal opportunity insults fly -- is one of the biggest Internet draws of the summer.
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June 13, 2005 |

This Summer, It's Real

The workload for summer associates is changing: fewer happy hours and less make-work. Today, summer associates act more like real lawyers, from researching a jurisdictional question to finding case law to support a motion for summary judgment to be filed in a few days. And the change was requested from the students themselves, who, in a tighter job market, want the exposure to the real legal world so they can land a permanent job later.
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November 25, 2008 |

Larger Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Fines Ahead

The SEC says it will start slapping larger penalties on a number of companies that have allegedly violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, reminding lawyers in the field that the regulator is taking a tougher stance today on international bribery. "The dollar amounts in the cases that will be coming within the next short while will dwarf the disgorgement and penalty amounts that have been obtained in prior cases," said Scott Friestad, the SEC's deputy director for the Enforcement Division.
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April 09, 2013 |

Married Lawyers on Moving From Big Firm to Boutique Law

With two busy practices and double-barreled earnings power, David and Courtney Angeli would be prime candidates for any list of Portland, Oregon-area "power couples." They certainly qualify as a "power legal couple."
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May 01, 2012 |

Film financier sues firm for legal malpractice

A thwarted Hollywood dealmaker is suing Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, among others, for legal malpractice as he made arrangements for the Walt Disney Co. to sell Miramax Corp.
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March 25, 2005 |

Divided Loyalties

Corporate executives rely on their general counsel for many things, only one of which is legal services. While this is the simple reality, it creates ethical and other challenges for the general counsel (GC), who must ensure that executives do not wrongly assume in-house counsel represent them, that attorney-client and work product privileges are not lost, and that conflicts of interest are minimized.
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March 15, 2005 |

Creatine Seizure Verdict Upheld; Judge Awards $283,000 in Fees

A federal judge has refused to overturn a jury's $159,000 verdict in an Americans with Disabilities Act suit brought by a man who said he was denied the right to return to work for 20 months after suffering two seizures brought on by taking creatine, a nutrition supplement, because his employer mistakenly believed he had a serious epileptic condition.
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June 17, 2013 |

Greenspoon Marder's Painful Acquisition Of A Dying Firm

Eighteen months after the historic merger with Ruden McClosky, Gerry Greenspoon of Greenspoon Marder calls the merger a success, despite a rocky initial start.
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