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September 13, 1999 |

Fen-Phen Trial Testimony: Risks Stop One Year After Use

American Home Products' former top medical executive tried to strike at the core of a class action over fen-phen last week by testifying that the risk of heart and lung disease disappears a year after patients stop taking the diet drugs. The testimony by Dr. Marc Deitsch, former senior vice president of medical affairs at AHP subsidiary Wyeth Laboratories who was called by the plaintiffs as a hostile witness, was key because the class is made up of people who used the drug but are asymptomatic.
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Foreman v. Goord
Publication Date: 2004-03-11
Practice Area: Civil Practice
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U.S. District Court Southern District of New York Judge Scheindlin Kenyaitta Benjamin Foreman, proceeding pro se [1] , bri

December 05, 2005 |

The Color of Money

Minority scholarship programs are gaining popularity among large firms these days. Approximately 20 Am Law 200 firms now sponsor scholarships for minority law students, including Kirkland & Ellis, Shearman & Sterling and Baker & Hostetler. The scholarships demonstrate commitment to diversity, although it's also clear that for some firms the scholarships double as recruiting tools. Paul Garcia of Kirkland says the recipient "has to be someone we can see and want to be a partner at Kirkland & Ellis."
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September 18, 2009 |

Law Firm Allows Full-Time Parenting in the Workplace

Roxanne B. Conlin and Associates, a Des Moines, Iowa-based plaintiffs firm, is one of only a handful of firms in the country that allows parents to bring their babies to the office. This is not on-site day care; it is full-time parenting in the workplace. In Roxanne Conlin's experience, parents are so happy to keep their kids nearby that they are motivated to perform at the top of their game. And because they aren't constantly worrying whether their child is being fed or changed, they are better able to focus.
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April 01, 2010 |

Columns

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EBER-NDC, LLC, v STAR INDUSTRIES, INC.
Publication Date: 2007-07-06
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department 335 CA 06-02610 PRESENT: SCUDDER, P.J., SMITH, CENTRA,

May 03, 2000 |

Salaries vs. Profits: Salaries Are Winning

Just like the stock market, there seems to be no limit on the going rate for first-year associates. And just as few anticipated the Dow would ever break 10,000, most D.C. managing partners never expected to be paying starting salaries in the six figures. Well, it's happened.
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May 30, 2008 |

The A-List (51-200)

Lawyers like to lament the passing of their fabled past, when partners knew each other on sight, firms contented themselves to operating in one ZIP code and junior associates were not a menacing anonymous horde threatening to take out their frustrations via the blogosphere. As it happens, in the big-firm world those days aren't gone, they've just moved to the Am Law Second Hundred ranks, where firms are prosperous and growing steadily but retain the possibility of old-fashioned cohesion.
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Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation
Publication Date: 2002-02-07
Practice Area: copyrights | web sites/linking
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Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Circuit Judge T.G. NELSON
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Case number: No. 00-55521

The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judge: This case involves the application of copyright law to the vast world of the internet

April 19, 2010 |

The Efficiency equation

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