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July 20, 2009 |

Best Course of Treatment: Representing Michael Jackson's Personal M.D.

What does a criminal-defense lawyer do when the whole world points a finger at his client? If you're Houston lawyer Ed Chernoff and your client was the King of Pop's personal physician, you enlist the help of your partners in an effort to redirect the 24/7 news cycle and show how your client cooperated with police — then you hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
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June 21, 2013 |

People in the News

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young senior counsel Bennett Picker presented at the American Bar Association's business law section annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on the topic of "What Is the Best Time to Mediate a Dispute."
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October 07, 2010 |

Judge Delays Hearing Into Execution of Father Convicted of Arson Deaths

A Texas judge who has been asked to re-examine arson evidence used to convict a man executed for killing his three daughters in a 1991 fire postponed a hearing Wednesday, after prosecutors asked him to step aside. Attorneys for Cameron Todd Willingham's family, backed by the New York-based Innocence Project, are seeking to clear his name. If the judge clears Willingham, it will mark the first time an official in the nation's most active death penalty state has formally declared that someone was wrongly executed.
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April 16, 2013 |

The Legal's Diverse Attorneys of the Year — 2013

The Legal's editorial staff recently set out to select our Diverse Attorneys of the Year, in which we highlight the achievements of some of the state's minority attorneys. Every two years, in an effort to illuminate the efforts of members of the legal profession across the state, we name a new group of attorneys who have done remarkable work in the prior two years.
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August 18, 2003 |

Legal Profession In Bid to Fight Corporate Fraud, ABA Amends Two Rules

The American Bar Association's House of Delegates, in meetings last week in San Francisco, adopted amendments to two of the association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct in the hope of compelling lawyers to report the kind of corporate malfeasance that resulted in the Enron and WorldCom scandals, among others.
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August 06, 2003 |

Baylor Law Alum to Examine Alma Mater's Alleged NCAA Violations

Baylor Law School alum and Austin attorney Kirk Watson has been tapped by Baylor University officials to look into allegations surrounding his alma mater's men's basketball team, which may have violated National Collegiate Athletic Association rules. "It is not a fun job," says Watson, a former Austin mayor, "but it is necessary to keep the school's integrity."
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August 04, 2003 |

Lawyers to Examine Baylor's Alleged NCAA Violations

Baylor University has tapped Kirk Watson, who graduated first in his class from Baylor Law School in 1981, to look into allegations surrounding the men's basketball team.
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July 10, 2012 |

People in the News

The board of directors of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute has announced its 2012-13 slate of officers and newly elected board members.
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September 29, 2000 |

Take the Money and Run

Associates are doing a cost-benefit analysis of their own careers -- and large law firms are losing. As firms continue to struggle with associate attrition, what associates say carries weight. Raises may not be the turnkey solution, but firms that doled out less than competitive raises bungled big-time. Those few midlevels in The American Lawyer's "Midlevel Associate Survey" who didn't benefit from the nationwide salary boon did not take it lightly.
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December 18, 2006 |

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