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July 14, 2000 |

IP Roundup

What's happening in the intellectual property world? New lawsuits, settlements, and orders involving companies as diverse as high-end cosmetic store Sephora and pharmaceutical giant American Home Products Corp. Find out what these and other companies are doing in our IP Roundup.
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October 11, 2013 |

Real Estate Roundup: Latest Leases Cap Busy Year

The Am Law Daily caught up this week with CBRE's Robert Flippin—who advised Mayer Brown on its signing this week of a lease for 187,000 square feet of space that will serve as the firm's new New York base—about the broader law firm real estate market. Hughes Hubbard & Reed, meanwhile, was one of dozens of other Am Law 200 firms to address its office needs recently, signing a 20-year lease to stay in its downtown Manhattan headquarters.
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December 03, 2012 |

Deal of the Week: Houston Calling

At first blush, the transaction sounds routine: Houston lawyer Shelton Vaughan is hired to help longtime client Quanta Services Inc. of Houston negotiate a definitive agreement to sell its telecommunications subsidiaries to Florida's Dycom Industries Inc. But Vaughan, a partner in Duane Morris in Houston, says the acquisition turned out to be complicated, because the deal team had to carve out Quanta's telecom business from its other operations.
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September 17, 2012 |

8th Circuit Orders File-Sharer to Pay $220K

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has reinstated statutory damages of more than $220,000 against a woman who illegally file-shared two dozen songs, finding the damages to be constitutional.
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June 03, 2013 |

Judge Seeks Specifics on Supermarket Discount Program

Based on the "barren record" before him, Northern District Judge Lawrence Kahn said he cannot determine whether New York state is violating a supermarket chain's constitutional rights by barring its offer of gas price discounts in exchange for the purchase of prescription drugs.
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October 07, 2002 |

'Brown''s Legacy

Has Brown v. Board of Education been neutered by recent cases? Peter Irons thinks so.
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June 28, 1999 |

And the Winner Is....

It's in his hands now. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson must review the transcripts of 76 days of testimony. The case went out not with a bang, but with a whimper, as the evidentiary phase of the government's landmark antitrust trial against Microsoft concluded June 24. The judge will issue findings of fact and then conclusions of law about questions ranging from whether Microsoft committed illegal tying or predatory practices to whether it constitutes a monopoly.
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February 06, 2006 |

N.J. firm competes with the big guys

Pitney Hardin is among New Jersey's largest firms, with 179 lawyers in several practice areas, including labor and litigation. Lawyers at the 104-year-old corporate firm traditionally have been New Jersey counsel for some big companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp.
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September 17, 2013 |

The CPLR Turns 50! Taking Stock of Good, Bad and Ugly

In his New York Practice column, Albany Law School professor Patrick M. Connors writes: Viewing the landscape of New York procedure before the CPLR took effect, it is apparent that it has achieved the goal of modernizing civil practice. The road has, however, been a bumpy one and there are certainly many shortcomings with our current system.
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September 01, 2004 |

Valora Has a Secret Code: Automation

Talk about a paper-induced panic attack. In mid-May Judy Ercolini, a senior paralegal at Boston's Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, received 64 banker boxes filled with discovery documents that needed to be coded before an anticipated bankruptcy filing at the end of the month. Coding is the process of creating a database that organizes discovery documents by author, creation date, subject, and other fields.
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