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July 21, 2003 |

In 2002, the board of directors at The AES Corp. took herculean steps to put the company back on track. The Arlington, Va.-based energy business' stock price had lost 87% of its value in 10 months and the company was fighting a myriad of legal problems. Desperate to change course, the AES board, following the advice of outside consultants, ordered several changes, including sharply changing the compensation structure for its senior management.
6 minute read
March 22, 2011 |

The Job of Milk and Honey

Do you get really excited at the thought of a workday that ends at 9 p.m.? Do you freak out in tunnels because your Blackberry's suddenly just a camera/calculator? These are signs that you're the warped Type A for you know what person that BigLaw loves. But you might prefer the love of a human being. Maybe the love of shorter human beings one day. Maybe a dog instead of a fish tank with only water and gravel and guilt in it. If any of that sounds good, in-house may be the place for you.
4 minute read
May 24, 2000 |

Sunoco GC Foltz to Retire After 20 Years

Ever since he pumped gas and sold kerosene at his parents' country grocery store in Honey Creek, Ind., a half century ago, Jack Foltz has been connected to the oil business. That link will come to an official end this month as Foltz retires as vice president and general counsel of Philadelphia-based Sunoco Inc. after 20 years with the company and almost four decades as an in-house attorney at oil companies.
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December 01, 2009 |

'Iqbal' Derails Tubercular Attorney's Privacy Complaint

Attorney Andrew Speaker, who made news when he took a trans-Atlantic flight while infected with a rare strain of tuberculosis, probably lost his bid to hold the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention liable for federal privacy act violations based on recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, which changed the standard for dismissal on the eve of his filing. According to a Georgia federal judge's ruling, Speaker failed to meet that standard, which limits notice pleadings by requiring them to contain specific factual allegations.
8 minute read
December 01, 2008 |

Obama announces Clinton, Gates for Cabinet

CHICAGO AP -President-elect Barack Obama picked a national security team headed by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bush administration holdover Robert Gates on Monday, and said he wants to consult with military commanders before settling on a firm timetable to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq.Obama said a newly completed agreement between Iraq and the Bush administration covering U.
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Law Journal Press | Digital Book Health Care Fraud: Enforcement and Compliance Authors: James F. Barger, Jr., J. Elliott Walthall, Elise May Frohsin, Benjamin P. Bucy View this Book

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June 07, 2007 |

Top 10 Examples of Workplace Wackiness

Gerald Skoning, a senior partner at Chicago's Seyfarth Shaw, writes that despite the prolonged national agony over the war in Iraq, there was reason to smile in 2006. He presents a survey of the top 10 bizarre employment law situations from last year, which provides a potpourri of workplace wackiness. The high achievers include one case where an employer received damages from a former employee who did no work for months while pretending his son had cancer.
5 minute read
May 10, 2000 |

D.C. Courts Seek $30M Increase

D.C. court leaders, in the midst of one of the most trying times in the court's history, have asked Congress for nearly $165 million to fund the local judiciary next year. This after two years of the courts trying to get a pay raise for nonjudicial staff. Court leaders argue that the raise is necessary in order to put their employees' salaries on par with those who work for federal agencies or courts.
5 minute read
April 06, 2010 |

High court may hold key for vaccine foes

In spite of recent courtroom losses, parents who blame their children's autism at least in part on childhood vaccines say their legal battle is far from over."We've always been in it to the very end," said Theresa Cedillo of Yuma, Ariz., whose autistic daughter Michelle became the focus of a key test case at the U.
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July 16, 2007 |

Baseball Fan Living His Dream as General Counsel for Pirates

More than four out of five U.S. workers are not working at their dream jobs, according to a survey released earlier this year by CareerBuilder.com. But Larry Silverman is living his dream. Silverman has been a Pittsburgh Pirates fan all his life and is now working for the baseball team he grew up rooting for. "While I cannot play on the field, I can help the general manager put together a team that will compete and hopefully win a championship," he says.
6 minute read
September 19, 2011 |

A 'legend' to law firms, data miner reclaims field

Hank Asher-high school dropout, cyberpioneer, friend to law enforcers, enemy to child predators, nemesis of privacy advocates, ex-cocaine smuggler-is back in the business of finding almost everything that's known about anyone in the U.S. Law enforcement applauds Asher for his help in catching child predators.
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