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May 10, 2005 |

Anti-Apartheid Hero Works to Protect His Name From Commercialization

Anti-apartheid hero. Icon of peace and racial reconciliation. Brand name? Nelson Mandela has deployed a team of lawyers to make sure the commercial label doesn't stick, going after opportunists, criminals -- and now even an old friend. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate's legal battle against his former attorney illustrates the complexities of protecting Mandela's name from commercial predators while allowing his fans to re-christen roads, squares, bridges, universities and shantytowns in his honor.
4 minute read
September 19, 2003 |

Strange Bedfellows

Matt Reed was strolling through a fashion trade show in London when a T-shirt display stopped him in his tracks. Reed, a co-founder and business director of Oakland's Cosmic Debris, had caught someone selling a knock-off of the company's "Emily the Strange" T-shirt. "Emily's" surge in popularity has kept Cosmic Debris and its lawyers scrambling to protect the company's trademarks and copyrights and illustrates the problems a small company can face when it launches a popular product.
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December 02, 2011 |

Robin Rosenbaum nominated for U.S. District Court

U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin Rosenbaum, a federal prosecutor for nearly 10 years, has been nominated by President Obama for a U.S. District Court seat.
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June 30, 2003 |

Former Associate Sues V&E Alleging Discrimination

Houston-based Vinson & Elkins is the defendant in a suit filed recently by one of its former associates, an African-American female attorney who alleges V&E engaged in unlawful employment practices that violated her civil rights.
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February 18, 2002 |

Judicial Profile: Presiding Judge David Baime

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Law Journal Press | Digital Book White Collar Crime: Business and Regulatory Offenses Authors: Otto G. Obermaier, Robert G. Morvillo (deceased), Robert J. Anello, Barry A. Bohrer View this Book

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October 11, 2005 |

Post-Its and Paper Clips: How Low-Tech Prevailed in Patent Case

In a patent infringement case in federal court, Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon Endo-Surgery showed the jury a massive video screen filled with images of the device at issue -- a medical tool that removes tissue for biopsies. Worried that the oversized images would distort the jury's view of the device, attorney Jack Scarola constructed his own replica of the device using Post-it notes, paper clips and homegrown ingenuity. Call it low rent, but Scarola won $2 million for his client.
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March 21, 2008 |

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September 01, 2008 |

TIME OFF: Going to Martha's

Mid-nineteenth-century Methodists who congregated in Cottage City on Martha's Vineyard might be amazed.
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May 26, 2004 |

Spitzer Files Civil Suit Over Grasso Pay

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has filed a much-anticipated civil suit against Richard A. Grasso, the former New York Stock Exchange chairman whose $187.5 million pay package last year caused a public uproar leading to his resignation.
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May 31, 2013 |

Judge OKs Davis Settlement in Dewey Bankruptcy

Just over a year after Dewey & LeBoeuf capped the largest firm failure in history by filing for Chapter 11 protection, a U.S. bankruptcy judge in Manhattan has approved a $19.5 million settlement of mismanagement claims between Dewey's liquidating trustee, former chairman Steven Davis, and the firm's professional liability insurer. The settlement's approval comes as some former Dewey partners have begun making their way back onto the lateral market.
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