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September 16, 2013 |

Southern California Edison Co.

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September 10, 2009 |

Social Web sites help lawyers connect

Steven Weinberger, general counsel of Wisdom Natural Brands, boasted on an online social network last month that he saves money by drafting his own trademark applications before sending them to outside lawyers for review. Paul Escobar, the top lawyer at Cumberland Gulf Group of Companies, wrote back saying he, too, sometimes drafts legal documents to establish content and tone before outside counsel get their hands on them.
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July 09, 2012 |

The Legal Times Awards: Champions & Visionaries

In this fifth annual special section, we honor Washington lawyers in two categories: Champions, those who have upheld the profession's core values through public service, pro bono efforts and advocacy for civil liberties, and Visionaries, attorneys whose business or legal acumen has expanded their firms, improved government or advanced the law.
8 minute read
June 05, 2013 |

Pharma Price-Fixing Case Peters Out at High Court

It's been a tough slog through the courts for a group of pharmacy plaintiffs with antitrust claims against some of the biggest drug companies in the land. Plaintiffs lawyer Joseph Alioto of the Alioto Law Firm has stuck with the case for nearly a decade, including through two trips to the California Supreme Court. Now, he's finally run out of appeals.
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May 07, 2013 |

The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

Edwards Wildman Palmer expands its newly launched Miami office; a Department of Justice lawyer joins Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C.; and Chadbourne & Parke loses a project finance partner in New York. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to [email protected].
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February 22, 2010 |

CIVIL ACTIONS

The following cases were recently filed in the Washington-area district courts. This information is provided by the courts' official online bulletins.
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April 19, 2010 |

Medical Monitoring: 25 Years Later

For more than 25 years, healthy plaintiffs have been filing lawsuits based upon their "fear" of developing an illness. These plaintiffs are typically symptom-free and exhibit no indications of disease related to an alleged product exposure, but they seek to recover medical monitoring costs. In the last two years, federal and state courts have issued over 40 decisions involving medical monitoring. Attorneys Christine G. Rolph, Valerie E. Torres and Elizabeth A. McCrillis examine two trends that have emerged.
17 minute read
November 24, 2008 |

The 2009 Proxy Season and the Year of Investor Anger

After the pop of the telecom bubble at roughly the same time as Enron and other corporate scandals surfaced at the beginning of the decade, there was a surge in shareholder proposals related to corporate governance, from 88 in 2000 to 427 in 2003. The financial crisis of 2008 will almost certainly lead to a similar tsunami of shareholder proposals in the 2009 proxy season, say attorneys Charles Nathan and Dennis Craythorn.
13 minute read
March 11, 2013 |

MOVERS

Rob McKenna joins Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe as partner and co-chairman of the public policy group in the Seattle office. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
3 minute read

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