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January 04, 2013 |

Passion in bronze: Tom Player explores his artistry as sculptor

Tom Player has always been an artist, but detoured for most of his professional life to practice law. Retired since 2009 from Morris, Manning & Martin, Player molded his truest passion as a sculptor into a second career.
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March 01, 2004 |

Editorials

Learned Professionals and the Consumer Fraud Act; Scholarships and Religion
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May 19, 2003 |

How The savvy succeed in setting rates

Steven H. PollakSpecial to the Daily ReportAttorneys Bruce R. and Shayna M. Steinfeld learned what they were worth only after leaving their medium-sized Atlanta firms and starting their own law practice.When the husband-and-wife team launched their firm in 2000, they charged the same hourly rates they had at their former firms.
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June 25, 2003 |

If I Had a Hammer

Summer program activities at major law firms have a certain predictability -- baseball games, sailing trips, dinners and the like. But for firms willing to donate time, money and sweat, there's Buildable Hours. Associated with Habitat for Humanity, Buildable Hours is an alternative to the usual summer activities -- and a way to make a lasting contribution to the community by constructing new homes for families in need.
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October 06, 1999 |

New Cases on U.S. Supreme Court's Docket Add to Term's Landmark Potential

The U.S. Supreme Court has lengthened the list of potentially landmark rulings in the new term. The justices agreed to decide whether Congress exceeded its lawmaking power under the commerce clause and Sec. 5 of the 14th Amendment when it created a civil remedy for victims of gender-motivated violence in the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The combined appeals - U.S. v. Morrison and Brzonkala v. Morrison - constitute the fourth, and perhaps most consequential, federalism challenge on the new docket.
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March 10, 2003 |

Law Firms' Tax Advice Challenged in Report

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June 11, 2007 |

U.S. States Review Licenses for Foreign Attorneys

Two cases involving foreign attorneys' rights to sit for the bar exam recently reached Massachusetts' highest court, the latest sign that states are wrestling with the issue of when attorneys from other countries should be allowed to practice in the United States. Nine states are reviewing whether to allow the licensing of "foreign legal consultants." Also, 21 states -- including California, New York and Illinois -- are considering the possibility of permitting foreign lawyers to practice temporarily.
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December 10, 2008 |

Newsbriefs

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December 20, 2010 |

How One BigLaw Partner, Desperate to Pump Up His Billables, Wound Up as Flunky to a Con Man

A former New York partner at Winston & Strawn, Jonathan S. Bristol, pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of laundering more than $20 million through his escrow accounts in connection with an alleged multi-million dollar fraud run by Kenneth Starr, a financial advisor to celebrities.
6 minute read
June 15, 2009 |

Summer campers hit the wall

This year's summer class faces a steep, sweaty, painful and daunting challenge if its members hope to nab an offer of employment from Big Law. One misstep and a hapless Summer Camper will be summarily jettisoned from the "Possible hire if the economy miraculously improves" pile and dumped in the "Ignore this luckless soul and focus on the few who might have a chance" pile.
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