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March 15, 2001 |

Let the Fun Begin!

Building on Toys "R" Us' recent success -- a much stronger holiday than in 1999 when the company failed to deliver online-ordered toys -- CEO John Eyler called on longtime friend Christopher Kay to head up the legal department. Kay, who left his practice in Florida for the post, couldn't resist being a part of the core management team charged with revitalizing the 148th company on the Fortune 500 list.
11 minute read
February 18, 2005 |

Fast Forward: 2005 M&A Is Already Off and Running

Last year's mergers and acquisitions business was good -- very good. If interest rates and the stock market continue to play along, 2005 is expected to bring even more work for the law firms that handle the deals. Experts anticipate more activity in private equity midmarket deals and in technology and health care sectors. And if January is any indication, merger activity this year could be a record breaker.
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December 11, 2009 |

Legal Training Looks at New Directions in Response to Recession

For the eighth year in a row, members of the legal training and professional development community converged on Washington, D.C., this month for their annual pow-wow, the NALP Professional Development Institute. This year, the faltering economy created a greater sense of urgency among attendees. In contrast to prior years' gatherings, which often focused on improving the performance of individual lawyers, the guiding principle this year was industry transformation.
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October 19, 2012 |

Associates Class of 2012

The Law Journal's annual new-associate magazine.
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September 19, 2008 |

Trial Technology Saves Last Man Standing

In October 2006, Gary Swanson, an executive with Hynix Semiconductor, was charged with joining a criminal conspiracy to fix prices in the dynamic random access memory industry. The right trial technology made Gary Swanson, the last man standing in this litigation, a free man.
8 minute read
September 07, 2009 |

Texas' Best-Paid General Counsel

20 minute read
October 04, 2006 |

Empirical Forensic Model: Conjectures and Refutations

Timothy M. Tippins, a consultant and special counsel in contested custody cases, and Jeffrey P. Wittmann, a trial consultant, write that recent months have seen a number of responses to criticisms that have been lodged against the practice of custody evaluators offering "best interest" opinions. They address the rationalizations offered in defense of that practice.
15 minute read
October 04, 2007 |

Southern District Civil Practice Roundup

Edward M. Spiro, a principal of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, writes that judges from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York have recently devoted an unusual degree of attention (much of it very critical) to conduct of attorneys that often goes unexamined and that many attorneys may not recognize as potentially problematic.
11 minute read
July 22, 2005 |

Public Interest Projects

For the past six years, pro bono lawyers at Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York have worked on behalf of a mentally retarded client on Georgia's death row who was convicted of a double homicide and robbery. On Wednesday, the Davis Polk team � associates Hayward H. Smith and Andrew B. Dean, partner James W.B. Benkard and senior counsel Ogden N. Lewis � prevailed in a habeas petition before the Superior Court of Butts County, winning a new trial for Larry Jenkins and sparing his life.
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