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May 02, 2002 |

Cornell Project Weighs In on Death Penalty

W hile its amicus brief in People v. Harris, the first death penalty case to reach the New York Court of Appeals since capital punishment was reinstated in 1995, may have been its most noteworthy of late, the Cornell Death Penalty Project has built a reputation as one of the most active death penalty resource centers in the country.
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October 23, 2006 |

Casualty of Deferred Prosecution

Once a shining star in New Jersey's vaunted modern health care system, Vivian Sanks King is ousted as the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's general counsel in the throes of a federal investigation into Medicaid double-billing.
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November 02, 2007 |

McDermott Will to Add Lower-Paid Associates

With soaring associate salaries, rising litigation costs and GCs' resistance to it all, something has to give. McDermott, Will & Emery plans to create a new tier of attorneys -- think of them as permanent contract associates -- to handle lower-end tasks at lower billing rates. The new hires -- the firm is looking into starting with a pilot group of 15 -- will be lawyers "with good pedigrees" who have practiced for a few years but don't want to deal with big-firm hours, says partner Robert Mallory.
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July 20, 2000 |

IRS Makes Nice With Corporate Taxpayers

Hoping to pare its aging backlog of audits and raise respect for its competency, the Internal Revenue Service embarked on an ambitious overhaul of corporate tax collection. At the helm is former Hewlett-Packard tax chief Larry R. Langdon, who has been charged with reorganizing the division along industry lines and selling a new tax philosophy to his 7,300 workers.
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September 05, 2002 |

Group Promotes Flextime for Attorneys

Three years ago Flex-Time Lawyers was established in Philadelphia as a means of helping young attorneys balance their legal careers with personal responsibilities, and to smooth the way with employers. Now the organization, founded by Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis attorney Deborah Epstein Henry, is expanding to New York.
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Federal Law Preempts State Law Claims Against Foreign Airlines, Second Circuit Rules
Publication Date: 2012-10-12
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An appellate court ruled on Thursday that the Federal Aviation Act preempts the state regulation of all airlines. The decision came in a long-running litigation in which major carriers have been accused of conspiring to keep cargo shipping rates artificially high.

Mega-Deal Ends Mega-Feud Between MBIA and Bank of America
Publication Date: 2013-05-06
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Bank of America announced Monday that it will pay $1.6 billion to the bond insurer MBIA Inc., bringing an end to one of the most vigorously contested disputes to grow out of the mortgage crisis.

January 31, 2005 |

Former McKesson Exec Faces Tough Defense Query

Defense attorney Walter Brown Jr. launched his cross-examination of prosecutors' star witness in the Richard Hawkins trial Thursday. Throughout his questioning, Brown pointed out inconsistencies and said Albert Bergonzi, a former McKesson executive now testifying against Hawkins, added details to his prior stories. Although Bergonzi didn't crack on the stand, Brown elicited testimony that will require Judge Martin Jenkins to wonder if and why Bergonzi changed his story over time.
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October 03, 2006 |

The Second City Is First on Firms' Growth List

U.S. firms are eyeing Chicago for expansion, attracted by its corporate clientele and rich pool of attorneys. Paul Hastings wants to open an office, and Dykema Gossett aims to double the size of its current one. Though many firms tackled expansions on the coasts first, Chicago's growing importance as a financial center now grabs their attention. While the market was once considered difficult to enter because of larger firms based there, less localism in client needs is helping to break down those barriers.
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June 03, 2011 |

Two more disability bias suits attack the LSAT

Barely a week after a blind man filed suit alleging that the American Bar Association essentially requires a discriminatory test, a would-be LSAT taker with attention deficit disorder has sued the Law School Admission Council, which administers the exam.
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