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December 01, 2009 |

Law Firm Leaders Survey 2009

Law firm leaders detail the short-term measures they've taken to cut costs.
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August 02, 2007 |

Commentary: Every Pay Raise Has Its Price

During the past month, large Texas law firms have engaged in a salary war that started with Vinson & Elkins raising first-year associate pay to the New York rate of $160,000. But at what price, asks Mark Donald? These young lawyers will bill around 2,000 hours a year -- minimum. And with the dreaded billable hour comes disillusionment. Add to that the fact that the average career life expectancy of an associate at a big firm is three years -- before a law firm even starts to make money off the attorney.
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Proskauer Steps Up for MLB in Latest A-Rod Legal Drama
Publication Date: 2013-10-04
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Proskauer Rose has been retained by Major League Baseball to fight the scandal-soaked suit filed Friday by embattled New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and his lawyers from Reed Smith, Gordon & Rees, and New York's Tacopina Seigel & Turano.

February 02, 1999 |

Atlanta Mayor Itching to Sue Gun Makers

Atlanta is expected this week to join other American cities that have sued the gun industry claiming that their products are unreasonably dangerous.
9 minute read
September 03, 2003 |

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Movers and Shakers in the Philadelphia Legal Community.
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April 19, 2010 |

Battling the Bomb

The long court battle to secure compensation for the Bikinians' losses ended on April 5 when the U.S. Supreme Court denied review of their appeal. But Weisgall is ready for the next phase — going to Congress to seek justice.
8 minute read
April 21, 2010 |

Justices Strike Down Animal Cruelty Law on First Amendment Grounds

First Amendment advocates applauded the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Tuesday striking down a federal law that made it a crime to create, sell or possess certain depictions of animal cruelty. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., writing for an 8-1 majority, called the law a "criminal prohibition of alarming breadth," and sharply criticized the government's defense of the law. The ruling left open the possibility that a statute narrowly focused on so-called "crush videos" might be found constitutional.
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Cravath, K&L Gates Fight to Lift Stay on Alcoa Foreign Bribery Case
Publication Date: 2011-11-04
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Aluminum giant Alcoa has had enough of waiting to defend itself against sensational bribery claims by a Bahraini rival while the DOJ and SEC build their own cases against the company. On Thursday Cravath's Evan Chesler travelled to Pittsburgh to make Alcoa's case for lifting a three-year-old stay in the civil suit so that it can seek dismissal, but federal prosecutors countered that allowing the case to proceed could threaten the government's investigation.

May 01, 2010 |

Big Suits

In re Black Farmers Discrimination Litigation; WaMu v. JPMorgan Chase; Ashland v. Oppenheimer; In re Time Warner Cable Antitrust Litigation
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February 05, 1999 |

Atlanta Mayor Itching to Sue Gun Makers

Atlanta is expected this week to join other American cities that have sued the gun industry claiming that their products are unreasonably dangerous.
8 minute read

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