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March 19, 2004 |

Women on Top

Last month's two most relentlessly covered news stories -- the end of HBO's "Sex and the City" and the beginning of the gay marriage maelstrom -- offered the kind of irony lawyers usually miss. Why the sudden collision of sex and statute? How do we manage to confuse anatomy, legal relationships and romance in the first place? Why does law -- as Carrie Bradshaw might have pounded out on her Mac -- continue to be turned off by sexuality?
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July 25, 2011 |

A Copyright Calling

On June 1, after five months filling the job on an acting basis, Maria Pallante was named U.S. Register of Copyrights. Previously the agency's deputy general counsel and associate register for policy and international affairs, Pallante has also worked as the National Writers Union's executive director and the Guggenheim Museums' intellectual property counsel and licensing director. Those jobs, she says, give her an affinity for creators at a time when they need every friend they can get.
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September 25, 2009 |

EEOC Alleges Discrimination Over Mental Illness

The federal government is suing a North Carolina employer for what it calls a pervasive problem in the workplace: discrimination against employees with mental illness.
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October 25, 2010 |

INADMISSIBLE

Back from vacation in China, Judge Lamberth hands down a ruling that keeps the Bank of China as a defendant in a civil terrorism suit; Assistant AG Lanny Breuer takes on the banking industry; D.C. disbars seven lawyers in a single day; Robbins Geller hires its first lobbyist; Mark Cuban offers the SEC a deal; K&L Gates forms a foreclosure practice; and Sen. John Ensign racks up half a million dollars in legal fees.
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July 21, 2006 |

Will Majority Rule Prevail in Electing Corporate Boards?

Majority voting is the big issue of proxy season 2006, dividing businesses and their outside counsel as well. This year more than 140 businesses faced proposals from shareholder activists wanting to alter methods of electing board members. Activists seeking the change hope to increase board members' accountability. Those opposed say it will destabilize companies, letting parties with short-term interests sway board composition. But both sides agree majority voting marks a shift in corporate power dynamics.
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Law Journal Press | Digital Book White Collar Crime: Business and Regulatory Offenses Authors: Otto G. Obermaier, Robert G. Morvillo (deceased), Robert J. Anello, Barry A. Bohrer View this Book

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August 02, 2006 |

Old-Style Union Buster a Dying Breed

Some people would call Cliff Nelson a union buster, but he thinks of himself as a gladiator -- and says he's part of a dying breed of lawyers who practice labor law. Today less than 8 percent of private-sector workers are unionized, compared to one-third of private sector workers when the AFL-CIO formed 50 years ago, and the traditional practice of labor law has declined accordingly. Many practitioners have shifted into employment law, an outgrowth of labor law, which over the years has eclipsed its parent.
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January 05, 2004 |

Newsmakers

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September 10, 2012 |

Justice Watch: Middle East justice stirs special interest in Barkett

Appellate Judge Rosemary Barkett talked about an American Bar Association initiative in the Middle East as the volatile area moves toward reform.
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March 13, 2009 |

Fire at Fort Benning landmark shakes military post

FORT BENNING, Ga. AP - Most of the Army personnel and civilian employees at Fort Benning had long since gone home when the urgent call came on a Friday night in February: One of the post's historic buildings was on fire.Post police officers arrived at the Judge Advocate General's office first, and forced their way in to see paper burning in piles on several desks.
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October 21, 2013 |

MOVERS

Leisa Lundy joins the Holland & Knight's intellectual property practice group as partner in the New York office. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
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