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August 09, 2000 |

Disputed Match Has Top Wrestler in an Olympian Bind

Chicago attorney Steve Thompson went to the mat Wednesday in asking an arbitrator to reverse the results of a match that denied his disconsolate client a spot on the U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman Wrestling team going to Sydney, Australia in September.
3 minute read
June 03, 1999 |

Texas Jury Hammers Department Store for $7.3 Million in Same-Sex Harassment Case

A Texas jury awarded $7.3 million to a shoe salesman who said he was sexually harassed by his male supervisor in a verdict that is believed to be one of the largest returned in a same-sex harassment case for a single plaintiff. Some labor lawyers say that, while the verdict against Dillard Department Stores proves that employers must take same-sex harassment claims seriously, it does not necessarily mean that a flood of similar suits will follow.
5 minute read
June 30, 2004 |

The Am Law 100

41 minute read
June 30, 2004 |

The Am Law 100: Compensation All Partners

34 minute read
May 17, 1999 |

The Cryptkeepers

Is Texas lawyer Larry Cotten the Dr. Frankenstein of the Texas trial bar? As the defense lawyer who brought the "gatekeeper" function to state litigation -- giving trial judges the power to screen out junk science masquerading as expert opinion -- he sure looks that way to some litigators and judges. Five years ago, when he was just defending another client, DuPont, in a toxic-tort case, he certainly didn't expect the case to lurch out of the courtroom and start wreaking havoc across the Texas countryside.
9 minute read
March 21, 2007 |

New Partner Numbers Increase at Many Large Firms in Texas

For most of the partners in the largest firms in Texas, the partnership track ranges from 6.5 to 12.5 years, according to the firms that participated in Texas Lawyer's annual New Partners Survey. Twenty-three of the 25 largest firms in the state report promoting 146 attorneys to partnership in their Texas offices for 2007. That's 6.5 percent more than the 137 attorneys promoted to partnership by the same firms in 2006. "The legal business has been booming," says recruiter Robert A. Rowland.
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January 16, 2003 |

Double Life

Houston litigator Barbara A. Radnofsky really does have it both ways. Radnofsky does defense work at Vinson & Elkins, but also runs a small plaintiffs' personal-injury practice within V&E. It's an unusual arrangement, but one that works because she carefully avoids client and issues conflicts. There aren't many others in her situation, but those who do work both sides of the bar find it immensely satisfying.
9 minute read
September 30, 2002 |

Busy Signals

Plano, Texas-based Ericsson Inc. is the American subsidiary of the Swedish firm Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, the world's leading supplier of equipment used to build telecom networks for voice and data communications. The most difficult part of GC Lawrence F. Lyles' job is trying to coordinate among the competing interests within his multinational corporation.
6 minute read
April 05, 2001 |

Richards & O'Neil and Bingham Dana to Merge

Winnowing by one the steadily dwindling ranks of midsize firms in Manhattan, the 75-lawyer general practice firm Richards & O'Neil said that it will merge with fast-growing Bingham Dana of Boston. The agreement, which takes effect May 1, will create a firm of about 500 lawyers and more than double the size of Bingham Dana's New York branch, to 125 attorneys.
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