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November 05, 2002 |

Learning From Acts of Terror

Like the U.S. government, corporate America reinforced its security precautions after the Sept. 11 attacks. Vicki O'Meara, GC of Ryder System Inc., says her company was already in a heightened state of alert. "We have an unfortunate history with security issues," O'Meara said, alluding to the Ryder trucks involved in the 1993 World Trade Center and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings.
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April 28, 2006 |

2006 Am Law 100: Two More Billion-Dollar Firms

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May 31, 2006 |

DLA Piper Makes Measured Progress

It's now the second-largest law firm in the world, but the conglomeration has sceptics who deride its "Starbucks" approach.
8 minute read
January 18, 2007 |

Bush Official Apologizes for Slap at Lawyers for Detainees

A Department of Defense lawyer apologized Wednesday for his comments suggesting that corporations boycott law firms that represent detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. In a letter to The Washington Post, Charles Cully Stimson said the comments, made during a radio interview, "do not reflect my core beliefs." His apology came two days after the Pentagon disavowed his statements, saying they did not represent Defense Department views. The remarks had touched off a salvo of criticism.
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August 30, 2000 |

Charles R. Morgan, BellSouth Corp.

Charles R. Morgan is executive vice president and general counsel of BellSouth Corp., the third-biggest player in the U.S. local phone service market. He says, "Lawyers have an important role here. Their views are considered important. Nobody says, 'That's not a legal matter--we're not interested in your view.'I've told the lawyers, 'You're in in-house heaven here.'"
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February 03, 1999 |

PTO Handling Record Number of Patent Filings

U.S. patent examiners were hit with an onslaught of a quarter million patent applications last year. The agency is expanding, but critics say the mountain of new filings pose problems that go beyond processing speed.
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March 29, 2010 |

New Partners For 2010: Numbers Down at Most Large Firms in Texas

The largest firms in Texas promoted 69 lawyers to partner or shareholder for 2010, the third year in a row that the firms promoted fewer new partners and shareholders in the Lone Star State. Three of the top 26 firms in the state had not announced their promotions before Texas Lawyer's presstime. Chad Key (pictured) of Kelly Hart & Hallman in Fort Worth was one of those promoted to partnership.
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October 14, 2013 |

Mass. Court Clarifies Private Equity Funds' Exposure to Their Portfolio Companies' ERISA Pension Liabilities

In an opinion issued in October 2012, the Federal District Court of Massachusetts provided clarity on the question of whether a private equity fund can be liable for the ERISA pension obligations of its portfolio companies, including multiemployer withdrawal liability and defined benefit pension plan underfunding. This summer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit had a different interpretation. The case was Sun Capital Partners v. New England Teamsters & Trucking Industry Pension Fund.
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October 19, 2012 |

Associates Class of 2012

The Law Journal's annual new-associate magazine.
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