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January 08, 2002 |

Year in Review: 3rd Circuit Highlights From 2001

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals resolved a wild variety of cases in 2001 -- ranging from the dog shot by a police officer while its owner watched in horror to the suspected terrorist who was awarded more than $100,000 in legal fees. Among the winners were the gun industry and a dead rap singer. Counting their losses were Nasdaq investors and residents around the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.
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Despite Best Efforts of a Raft of Big Firm Defense Counsel, Sprawling MDL over Bank Overdraft Fees Survives Motion to Dismiss
Publication Date: 2010-03-16
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Do banks have the right to charge huge penalty fees for checking account overdrafts? A senior judge in Florida ruled that 15 cases raising such allegations can proceed to discovery in litigation that could cost the banks hundreds of millions of dollars.

July 21, 2003 |

Hospital Patients Sue Media for Fraud

Undeterred by last Tuesday's ruling that there is no constitutional right of privacy from the media, lawyers for hospital patients who claim they were tricked into appearing on TV are pursuing a national class action against the reality show, "Trauma: Life in the ER."
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November 19, 2007 |

The Firm Reports

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March 08, 2006 |

Will Law Firms Take First-Years' Money Pot Off the Boil?

With first-year salaries at large law firms soaring by an impressive 250 percent in 20 years, some firm leaders are asking new questions about the cycle. "It's got to end," says Cozen O'Connor Chairman Stephen Cozen. "There's not an unlimited pot out there." The increase in salary on the lower end and the dwindling of partner profits to pay for it on the other end has created a tension zone somewhere in the middle, according to observers. And are firms even seeing a return on their investment?
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July 31, 2008 |

Associates Survey 2008

Smaller firms often outscore larger ones on our annual survey of midlevel job satisfaction. It may be because a more intimate atmosphere breeds happiness. Maybe it's because associates have more responsibility. Perhaps it's because they have a better chance of making partner. In these charts, firms are grouped roughly according to size. In the first category are firms whose annual gross revenues are too low to qualify for the Am Law 200. These are the smallest firms that took part in our survey. In the second category are Am Law Second Hundred firms?numbers 101-200 on the most recent Am Law 200 survey (July.) In the final category are firms that appear on our most recent Am Law 100 (May) or Global 100 (October 2007) survey. For a full methodology, click here.
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September 26, 2005 |

2005 Revoked List

Notice to the bar.
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December 23, 2005 |

2005: A Competitive Time for Area Firms

Last year�s look back at events in the Philadelphia legal community went something like this: Not too much happened in 2004. This year was a whole different story.
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September 12, 2003 |

The Unraveling of Neal Sher

For years, attorney Neal Sher tracked down former Nazis for the DOJ and brought them to justice. He lobbied on behalf of numerous groups and most recently was a leader of a commission that helps families of Holocaust victims collect on insurance policies. But last year, Sher's life began to unravel. He now finds himself out of a job and stripped of his D.C. law license.
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There Is Life After Securities Fraud Dismissal: Classes Certified in ERISA Stock-Drop Cases Against Comcast, Fremont
Publication Date: 2010-04-19
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Two cases don't quite make a trend, but it's pretty interesting that the federal judges who last week certified ERISA classes both previously dismissed securities class actions raising very similar allegations against the defendants.

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