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April 14, 2011 |

IP Counsel Navigate the Perils and Promises of Social Media

Social media changes so fast and its ramifications are so profound that corporate counsel can be left scrambling. These challenges were addressed by lawyers from Google, Oracle, and General Mills in a panel, "Protection and Promotion: Your Corporate Identity in the Virtual World," part of ALM's "Social Media: Risks & Rewards" conference in San Francisco.
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July 09, 2013 |

Ousted Attorney Blames Firm for Asbestos Misconduct Claim

A former associate at Brayton Purcell has sued the firm and founding partner Alan Brayton for failing to pay his legal costs in a malpractice case and bar investigation that followed a scathing order by an Ohio judge accusing him of rampant misconduct in an asbestos case.
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April 09, 2008 |

Connolly Bove Opts to Rotate Managing Partner Position

At the end of his second term as managing partner of Wilmington-based Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, Jeffrey B. Bove knew that whether he retained his position would affect the growing firm’s pattern of leadership.
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July 21, 2008 |

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July 11, 2013 |

Cleary Leads Lobbying on Cross-Border Swaps Rules

After months of "long and sometimes difficult" negotiations, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the European Commission on July 11 announced a framework for cross-border regulation of swaps market.
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May 21, 2010 |

Oil disaster could prolong tourism-related job losses

Job losses in the leisure and hospitality industry may persist this summer if the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico remains largely uncontained.
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October 19, 2006 |

Novel strategy pays off big in lead contamination liability case

TO BREAK THE paint industry's 15-year winning streak in lead liability cases, a team of New England litigators abandoned the standard products liability theories in favor of a novel application of the common law doctrine of public nuisance. The long march in what popularly has been called the Rhode Island lead paint case began in 1999.
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March 16, 2007 |

Act Would Create Higher Hurdles for Oil Mergers

Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., the chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, introduced legislation on Wednesday that would make it harder for gasoline mergers to win antitrust approval. The Oil Industry Merger Antitrust Enforcement Act would change the current review process by demanding proof from merging parties that their transaction will not harm competition and allow the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department to block proposed mergers that do.
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June 18, 2012 |

Cleaning Up City Waterways

In his Municipal Law column, Jeffrey D. Friedlander, first assistant corporation counsel of the City of New York, writes that the Law Department's Environmental Law Division, together with technical and legal staff from the DEP, the Mayor's Office of Environmental Remediation and outside counsel, are working to develop strategies to ensure that the CERCLA cleanups at Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek will be protective of human health and the environment, cost-effective, and compliant with sound scientific and legal principles
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