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April 19, 2012 |

Mid-Sized Firms Show Caution in Boosting Billing Rates

New York City firms raised their attorney billing rates on average by 12 percent in the last few years, the second highest change in rates among lawyers in various U.S. cities, according to a new report, which also shows that a lawyer's billing rate is determined more by law firm size and location than by status, experience or practice area.
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August 18, 2009 |

Marriott drops blame-victim defense in Conn. rape

NEW HAVEN, Conn. AP - The Marriott hotel chain on Monday abandoned its legal claim that a Connecticut woman raped at gunpoint in a hotel parking garage, in front of her young children, had been careless and was partly at fault.The withdrawal followed days of backlash against Bethesda, Md.-based Marriott International Inc.
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November 15, 2012 |

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August 26, 2009 |

The humanizing effect of BBQ

Lying on his living room floor staring into the flames, Harvard professor Richard Wrangham was thinking about the next morning's lecture on evolution when he had his "Eureka" moment. In his book, "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human," Wrangham argues that it was not agriculture, tools or meat eating that led to the rise of human beings.
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February 18, 2009 |

Bar amends conflicts rule

The American Bar Association's House of Delegates voted on Feb. 16 to amend its Model Rule of Professional Conduct governing conflicts of interest stemming from lateral hiring.At the ABA midyear meeting in Boston, the 555-member ABA House of Delegates voted 226 to 191 in favor of Recommendation 109. The rule allows law firms to hire lawyers with conflicts of interest without a waiver from the client.
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March 26, 2013 |

The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan expands its Washington, D.C., office with a health care fraud expert; Fish & Richardson hires the head of Weil, Gotshal & Manges's Boston litigation practice; and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr gains two former government lawyers. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to [email protected].
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October 30, 2012 |

The Election and Justices' Retirement Decisions

At the end of the second year of President Obama's second term, will Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg decide to retire? Or, at the end of the second year of President Mitt Romney's first term, will Justice Antonin Scalia choose to call it a day?
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April 02, 2013 |

2nd Circuit says TV networks not likely to prevail against online start-up

A group of TV broadcasters lost their bid to block Internet startup Aereo from offering subscribers live TV broadcasts when the Second Circuit ruled that the broadcasters are not likely to prevail in a copyright lawsuit challenging Aereo's service.
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August 19, 2013 |

VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

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June 06, 2012 |

N.J. Judge in Ethics Pickle for Help to Girlfriend, Her Children

A state court judge is facing ethics charges for intervening on behalf of his then-girlfriend, now his wife, in matters affecting her children and their father.
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