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Google Jury Wanted Steak from Oracle, But Got 'Parsley'
Publication Date: 2012-05-23
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After Google took home a defense verdict Wednesday in the patent phase of a blockbuster trial, the jury foreman said Oracle's lawyers at Morrison & Foerster and Boies Schiller had gained few supporters on the most crucial copyright issue in the case.

August 02, 1999 |

Wising Up and Dressing Down

With more than a third of Washington's 25 largest law firms implementing week-long "casual Friday" dress codes during the summer months for the first time ever, everyone is looking over his or her shoulder to see what the next lawyer is wearing.
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June 29, 1999 |

New Twist In Class Action Law Could Affect Coke Race Case

U.S. District Court Judge Richard W. Story must decide whether to throw out a proposed class action suit brought by minority workers accusing the Coca-Cola Company of racial discrimination. He will be one of the first jurists to test a legal theory that may severely limit employment discrimination class action cases. The theory bars plaintiffs seeking primarily money damages rather than injunctive relief from pursuing a widely filed type of class action.
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August 14, 2000 |

Lawyers Find Special Help on 'Net' List

When Michael Shapiro first launched a list server, it was "a joke." Not anymore. Shapiro's list server for the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys now has more than 350 members who exchange information on legal theory, courts, cases, judges, experts and evidence. Says one member: "through the list servers I go from a law firm of two to a law firm of six hundred."
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June 30, 2004 |

The Am Law 100

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January 29, 2010 |

Former Clients File Malpractice Suit Against Milbank

Two former clients have sued Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, charging the firm with malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract over the firm's work on the financing of a failed Nebraska ethanol project.
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August 02, 1999 |

Lawyers Expect Y2K Business, Despite New Law

Even as he signed the Y2K Act into law last month, President Clinton could not help but sound a note of caution: "We will be watching to see whether the bill's provisions are misused," he said in an accompanying statement. After months of debate, the enacted legislation attempts a delicate balancing act: Weed out the frivolous suits expected to flood the nation's courts come Jan. 1, 2000, while allowing legitimate suits to go forward. But lawyers are certain there will be plenty of Year 2000 work.
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October 17, 2001 |

Who Defends Corporate America, 2001

Each year since 1988, The National Law Journalhas surveyed the law departments of the nation's largest corporations to track the rise and fall of in-house attorneys and to determine who represents corporate America. In this year's survey of 250 companies, New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom once again nabs the top spot among law firms defending corporate America, but by a considerably slimmer margin than in years past.
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The Global Lawyer: Chevron's Arbitration Gambit
Publication Date: 2011-10-31
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The Second Circuit's refusal to enjoin Ecuadorian plaintiffs from enforcing their $18 billion judgment against Chevron left the company's investment arbitration against Ecuador as its first global line of defense. It will be a tough defense for both Ecuador and the plaintiffs to overcome.

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