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July 10, 2003 |

Arent Fox Looks in the Mirror as Its Status Changes

Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin Kahn is looking for answers. A longtime fixture of Washington's legal scene, Arent Fox today is beleaguered by flat revenue and a stream of partner exits. Now the firm has begun an extensive effort to regain its footing.
14 minute read
June 22, 2005 |

Reporters Plead Their Case to Supreme Court

In a case set for review Thursday, two reporters are asking the Supreme Court to revisit the landmark Branzburg case, which found that a reporter does not have a First Amendment protection from responding to a grand jury subpoena in a criminal investigation. The New York Times and Time magazine reporters want the Court to toss out the contempt citations they received after refusing to divulge sources as part of an investigation into an alleged leak of a CIA operative's name.
6 minute read
July 11, 2003 |

D.C. Firm Arent Fox Takes a Long Look in the Mirror

Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, a longtime fixture of Washington, D.C.'s legal scene, is looking for answers. The firm is beleaguered by flat revenue and a stream of partner exits. Now the firm has begun an extensive effort to regain its footing.
14 minute read
October 18, 2007 |

Thomas takes critical look at himself in memoir

Editor's note: This review was written by David J. Garrow, a former Emory University professor and now senior fellow at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of "Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade" 1998 and "Bearing the Cross" 1986, a Pulitzer Prize�????winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
12 minute read
March 04, 2013 |

A banner year for billion-dollar patent verdicts

Intellectual property verdicts represented the largest category in number and dollar value last year. The category has contributed one verdict higher than $1 billion in each of the three prior years. But this year's list of top verdicts was notable in that three verdicts reached the $1 billion mark or higher, and all of them came out of high-stakes trials.
2 minute read
November 09, 2005 |

KPMG's Knight in Shining Armor

Within five months, Sven Erik Holmes went from sitting in an Oklahoma court as a chief federal judge, to standing in federal court as chief legal officer for KPMG. Holmes had nothing to do with the criminal behavior attributed to the auditing firm, but he had everything to do with rescuing it from what appeared to be an inevitable criminal indictment, by convincing the U.S. Attorney to enter a deferred prosecution agreement -- a trend in many corporate cases. Now part two of Holmes' job has begun.
14 minute read
June 10, 2013 |

NEWCOMERS TO THE 350

Reporters Jenna Greene, Sheri Qualters and Zoe Tillman profile 15 firms that entered (or rejoined) the list this year.
11 minute read
September 24, 2012 |

Largest Law Firms

59 minute read
September 22, 2006 |

Tort Reform in the Courts: A Defense Attorney Challenges Outdated Legal Precedents

For more than 240 years, writes Victor E. Schwartz, wise plaintiffs counsel have mined the gold of legal change for the benefit of their clients. By way of contrast, when defense counsel are retained, they focus on what is immediate. In this commentary, Schwartz examines the divergent ways in which plaintiffs lawyers and defense lawyers have viewed, and responded to, the common law of torts.
16 minute read
February 25, 2002 |

Who Owns The Earth?

E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company went to trial in Beaumont, Texas, in a poison well case with the deck stacked against it, and the stakes high. But DuPont won that bet, saving the company multimillions and frustrating trial lawyers` hopes to establish property rights deep below the surface of the earth.
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