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July 31, 2008 |

Associates Survey 2008

To find out how Midlevel associates rate their firms as workplaces, our annual midlevel survey examined 12 areas that contribute to job satisfaction. They include relations with partners and other associates, the interest and satisfaction level asso-ciates have in their work, training and guidance, policy on billables, management openness about firm strategies and partnership chances, the firm?s attitude toward pro bono work, compensation and benefits, and the respondents? inclination to stay at their firm for at least two more years. Respondents graded their firms on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest score. On this chart, firms with ten or more responses are ranked by their averages on those questions. Averages include responses from all participating of-fices. For definitions of national and international firms, and for other details, see our methodology
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October 20, 1999 |

Counsel Comes South To Test Fairness in Ga. Death Cases

Georgia is the only state that does not mandate that the condemned have a right to lawyers for the habeas process. The idea behind representation is to ensure death row inmates' trials and sentencing meet constitutional standards of fairness before they are put to death. If the U.S. Supreme Court declared such a right, states would be forced to ensure that condemned inmates have competent legal representation for their habeas petitions. But the court recently turned downed the chance to make that ruling.
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March 08, 2001 |

Georgia Civil RICO Case Causes Furor

Businessman David L. Pimper has become the latest target of an increasingly popular tool of Georgia's local prosecutors: a civil RICO complaint. Prosecutors contend the state's RICO act is the best tool to put criminals out of business. But defense lawyers say civil RICO actions can violate due process, strip targets of the means to defend themselves, and be used as economic leverage to exact guilty pleas.
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March 23, 2001 |

Georgia Power Nooses May Spawn 'Class' Suit

For years, hangmen's nooses dangled in Georgia Power plants. But the company's white supervisors say they never noticed them until Georgia Power and its parent company were sued by 13 black employees last year, according to depositions in the case. Plaintiffs claim the nooses symbolize a pervasive company culture that systematically shortchanges African-Americans in promotions and pay.
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November 26, 2007 |

Blood Money Paid by Chiquita Shows Company's Hard Choices

Chiquita Brands International says it had to pay off Colombian terrorists to protect its employees. The Justice Department says the company simply made an "expedient" choice. An exhaustive look at the four-year probe finds that neither side is exactly right. Documents, as well as interviews with attorneys from both sides, paint a portrait of a GC and a company giving in to extortion. It is the stuff of spy thrillers, describing veiled threats of violence, secret payments and an excruciating moral dilemma.
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Maryland Appeals Court Orders Breakaway Church to Surrender $40 Million in Real Estate Assets
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January 29, 2008 |

Newsbriefs

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November 13, 2006 |

The NLJ 250 Chart (51-100)

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March 24, 2003 |

Putting a Soft Face on the Hard Line

Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III is adept at putting a friendly face on conservative jurisprudence and trying to bring everyone under its tent with collegiality and consensus. It is these qualities, matched by respected opinion-writing, that lead some inside and outside the White House to place the 58-year-old Wilkinson high on the list for nomination as chief justice.
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February 15, 2010 |

CIVIL ACTIONS

The following cases were recently filed in the Washington-area district courts. This information is provided by the courts' official online bulletins.
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