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October 01, 2002 |

Lessons From 10 Firms

They're working a bit less and enjoying it a bit more. They're more anxious, deeper in debt, and, in their own words, thankful to be so well employed. Taken as a whole, responses to The American Lawyer's annual survey of midlevel associates show overwhelming agreement about what they like and don't like about their jobs. In a sea of superlatives, some firms singled themselves out. Here's how they did it.
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November 03, 2011 |

Candidates Who Passed the July 2011 N.Y. Bar Exam

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August 13, 2003 |

ABA Amends Two Rules to Fight Corporate Fraud

The American Bar Association's House of Delegates, in meetings yesterday and Monday in San Francisco, adopted amendments to two of the association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct in the hope of compelling lawyers to report the kind of corporate malfeasance that resulted in the Enron and WorldCom scandals, among others.
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April 09, 2009 |

A 20-law firm pro bono effort prepares to file scores of suits over Minneapolis bridge collapse

Scores of lawsuit are in the pipeline as a result of fallout from the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145 more. A pro bono team comprised of 20 Minnesota law firms plans to file 100-plus negligence lawsuits in the next 60 days on behalf of the victims who were injured in the bridge collapse, and the relatives of those killed.
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September 19, 2000 |

The Last Roundup

Capping a string of trial victories involving one of the world's largest life sciences group, lawyers for Aventis CropScience wrapped up a major patent dispute centered around genetically modified corn. Aventis' dispute with Monsanto-owned DeKalb Genetics was closely watched by the biotechnology industry, as the case illustrates dangers companies can face when collaborating on research in the emerging industry.
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December 29, 2003 |

The Perils of Pricing the Tort System

It's not surprising that a study reporting a sharp rise in the cost of the tort system would be embraced by the American Tort Reform Association -- and just as quickly attacked by trial lawyers. But a close look at the study, which purports to be unbiased, demonstrates how difficult it is both to research this complex and sprawling subject and to pass muster with academics who have long mined the same terrain.
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July 20, 2009 |

Best Course of Treatment: Representing Michael Jackson's Personal M.D.

What does a criminal-defense lawyer do when the whole world points a finger at his client? If you're Houston lawyer Ed Chernoff and your client was the King of Pop's personal physician, you enlist the help of your partners in an effort to redirect the 24/7 news cycle and show how your client cooperated with police — then you hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
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June 21, 2013 |

People in the News

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young senior counsel Bennett Picker presented at the American Bar Association's business law section annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on the topic of "What Is the Best Time to Mediate a Dispute."
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October 07, 2010 |

Judge Delays Hearing Into Execution of Father Convicted of Arson Deaths

A Texas judge who has been asked to re-examine arson evidence used to convict a man executed for killing his three daughters in a 1991 fire postponed a hearing Wednesday, after prosecutors asked him to step aside. Attorneys for Cameron Todd Willingham's family, backed by the New York-based Innocence Project, are seeking to clear his name. If the judge clears Willingham, it will mark the first time an official in the nation's most active death penalty state has formally declared that someone was wrongly executed.
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