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February 27, 2006 |

Pro Se Solo Battles SMU Over Property Eyed for Bush Library

Gary M. Vodicka, a Dallas solo practitioner, is waging a legal battle against Southern Methodist University over University Gardens Condominiums, one unit of which is lived in by Vodicka. The university has been buying other units in the complex since the late 1990s, but now the stakes are higher: The units sit on property that could become the location for the George W. Bush presidential library.
6 minute read
February 04, 2011 |

Let My People Go ... Online! The Party of We and People Power

The violence in Egypt is well beyond the government's control and turning off the Internet really didn't help.• ALSO SEE: Start Your Engines! | Expert Archive • Get Out of It — Welcome to Dodge City, Old Chap • All Right, GCs ... Let's Get UNIFIED!!!
5 minute read
August 04, 2010 |

Retail Data: Americans remain cautious in July

NEW YORK AP - Worried about the stalling economic recovery, Americans remained reluctant to spend at stores in July, especially on pricier items like jewelry, though they let go of some money for travel, according to data released Wednesday.Revenue from high-end jewelry, which had held steady in June, plummeted in July from a year earlier, when the figures already were dismal.
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April 10, 2012 |

Internet Gaming: Its Time Is Now

Robert J. McLaughlin, a partner at Hodgson Russ, writes that although the New York Lottery is the largest in the country, with more than $7 billion in sales in 2011, like other state lotteries it has been frustrated in attracting the younger player, age 18 to 35, and in modernizing methods of selling. But a recent opinion from the Department of Justice finally gave the green light to U.S. Internet lottery sales, potentially changing not just the lottery world as we know it, but the entirety of U.S. gaming as well.
10 minute read
February 25, 2013 |

A license to steal?

If high court sides with AmEx in case brought by merchants, it will encourage companies to draft clauses that eliminate both arbitration and claims, allowing them to get away with breaking the law.
4 minute read
July 01, 2005 |

Antitrust Laws Get Some Teeth

A company that dominates its industry or the market for a particular product within that industry must tread lightly when it takes any action that could interfere with its competitors' efforts to develop an efficient distribution network. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hammered this point home earlier this year in an antitrust case brought by the federal government against the nation's largest false teeth manufacturer, Dentsply International Inc.
9 minute read
April 05, 2007 |

Former Kohn Swift Attorneys Start Class Action Firm

Former Kohn, Swift & Graf partners Michael Boni and Joanne Zack have opened Boni & Zack, a class action firm in Philadelphia specializing in antitrust, consumer protection and copyright law. Boni, who had been with Kohn Swift for 14 years, brought two associates to the startup. Zack, with Kohn Swift for 18 years, had retired. The opening of Boni & Zack is the latest notable move in the class action bar lately. "We are seeing the opening of more small class-focused practices," says one attorney
4 minute read
September 15, 2006 |

Hunton & Williams Launches Office in Los Angeles

Richmond, Va.-based Hunton & Williams is launching a Los Angeles office by swallowing the majority of what was formerly trial boutique O'Donnell & Mortimer, a union spurred by shared client Pfizer Inc. "You cannot be a truly national firm unless you have a significant presence in California," said managing partner Walfrido Martinez. "Our hope is to build a strong presence in California, starting in Los Angeles and hopefully moving up the state." The L.A. location is the 850-lawyer firm's 18th office.
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