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December 31, 2008 |

Legal OnRamp Founder Sells Its Virtues

"Success is not correlated with legal quality. Because no one knows what that is." Paul Lippe is at it again, jabbing at the conventions of the legal profession. This time it's the quaint notion that good legal work leads to success. On this afternoon in early October, the former Silicon Valley general counsel is sitting in the East Palo Alto office of Greenberg Traurig, having just completed yet another demonstration of his one-year old brainchild, Legal OnRamp. This Web product, which works a bit like Facebook and LinkedIn, aims to foster collaboration and information sharing among a select network of clients and outside lawyers. And, of course, revolutionize the practice of law.
12 minute read
January 29, 2007 |

News in Brief

A trial court lacks the authority to order the production of an expert witness' federal income tax records as part of an opposing party's attempt to prove the expert is biased, according to a Superior Court ruling.
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February 03, 2004 |

Meadowlands Commission Revises Master Plan, Rewrites Zoning Regulations -- Finally

For the first time in over 30 years, the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission has revised its Master Plan and rewritten its zoning regulations. The new plan and regulations to implement it were adopted on Jan. 8, 2004, and will take effect on Feb. 17, 2004.
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October 15, 2003 |

Iraq Diary, Part I

Two months shy of his law school graduation, Michael R. Moebes sat in a Decatur, Ga., coffee shop working on a paper about retirement planning. Then his cell phone rang -- Moebes, who was in the Tennessee Air National Guard, had been called to war. Graduation, the bar exam and starting his career as a lawyer would have to wait. This is his story.
18 minute read
September 23, 2002 |

What Would a Guy Do?

Sometimes the details of a woman's life can be overwhelming. Handling the details of all our various lives -- work, kids, home, marriage, social life, business development, community work, CLE, etc. -- requires a juggling act fit for a three-ring circus. Sometimes it can become too much. But does this mean that you need to sacrifice a rewarding career for other priorities? Not necessarily -- you may just need to summon the nerve to ask for an alternate path.
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Law Journal Press | Digital Book White Collar Crime: Business and Regulatory Offenses Authors: Otto G. Obermaier, Robert G. Morvillo (deceased), Robert J. Anello, Barry A. Bohrer View this Book

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June 03, 2013 |

Clarence Thomas and Affirmative Action

As the Supreme Court justices deliberate on the Fisher case, they might consider the critical ways in which Justice Thomas offers an example of affirmative action working in the right way.
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April 19, 2010 |

Civil litigators are settling in for the long haul

Anyone who hoped that commercial litigation might help law firms weather the recession was surely disappointed last year.That's judging by the recoveries Daily Report affiliate VerdictSearch counted among its Top 100 Verdicts of 2009. Commercial verdicts, including breach-of-contract recoveries, fell from $1.4 billion in 2008 to $421 million last year.
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September 01, 2006 |

Temporary Solution

the $16 billion merger of SBC Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp. represented a high-water mark in the legal cattle call known as document production. Some 600 contract attorneys converged in Washington, D.C., to work on the SBC side of the deal, where the telecom giant's antitrust counsel, Crowell & Moring and Arnold & Porter, ran a massive antitrust regulatory review. A few hundred more in Chicago labored for Sidley Austin at AT&T's behest.
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February 03, 2005 |

Lawyers and Courts Brace for Flood of Elderly

About 70 million baby boomers are close to hitting their retirement years, a seismic demographic shift that will dramatically alter the way attorneys and courts do business in the coming decades.
8 minute read
January 06, 2009 |

Serendipity Leads Attorney From Corporate Consulting to Executive Suite

Kelly C. Abernathy is senior vice president, GC and chief compliance officer at Capital Institutional Services Inc. Unlike many GCs, Abernathy did not move in-house from a firm, nor did she come from a career in securities law. Rather, she came from the corporate consulting world, where she had developed an expertise in compliance from a business angle. On first impression, she says, some people may underestimate her legal abilities, so her strategy is to "disarm them and then knock their socks off."
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