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August 30, 2004 |

Walter Lucas, Lawyer, Journalist and NJLJ Editorial Writer, Dead at 49

Obituaries for Walter Lucas and John Schuyler Huff
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June 25, 2007 |

New Transsexual Rights Law Leaves Lawyers Guessing About Its Terms

A new law barring "gender identity or expression" discrimination, in effect as of June 17, is already stirring debate among New Jersey employment lawyers, who say its provisions are so broad that they will require fine tuning by the courts. The immediate effect of the statute, which shields transsexuals and others never before protected as a class, may be a new awareness of gender-identity issues, followed by the emergence of civil rights cases based on employment, housing and public-accommodation bias.
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October 28, 2004 |

Expert Witness Helps Launch Employment Law Industry

Bill Bielby has provided expert testimony in more than 50 cases -- including the successful class certification motion on behalf of 1.6 million female Wal-Mart employees. He has helped plaintiff attorneys win about $1 billion in settlements and helped launch a new wave of discrimination class actions. But he is also the scourge of the employment defense bar, which says his entire field of expertise shouldn't be allowed through the courtroom door.
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June 08, 2006 |

Peer Pressure Compels Law Firms to Raise Summer Associate Salaries

When the Daily Report conducted its latest survey of summer associate pay, more than half of the responding Atlanta-area law firms initially said they were paying the same as last year. But many also asked, "What are other firms doing?" The result: After the survey's official close date, several firms announced they were raising weekly pay retroactively. And at least sixteen of the firms are now paying summers $2,000 or more a week, compared with two firms last year.
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February 15, 2010 |

Movers

Stephen S. Madsen has been named chairman of the antitrust section of the New York State Bar Association. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
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September 24, 2012 |

In-House at Large Public Companies

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April 14, 2003 |

Larry Negron v. Jane Harriet Goldman

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February 02, 2006 |

McKenna Does Defense for BlackBerry, as Outage Looms

While lawyers and other BlackBerry users prepare for a possible shutdown of service, attorneys at McKenna Long & Aldridge are defending the patent case for the device's maker, Research In Motion. The McKenna team -- led by Gordon D. Giffin, an early BlackBerry user who met one of RIM's founders while U.S. ambassador to Canada -- is working with other firms as they prepare for a Feb. 24 hearing on the injunction against RIM.
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More Fallout from Ruling on Recess Appointments as D.R. Horton Challenges Decision on Class Action Waivers
Publication Date: 2013-01-30
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The D.C. Circuit shook up both Washington and Wall Street when it invalidated President Obama's recess appointments of three NLRB members. Now D.R. Horton, a company that's been tangling with the NLRB in a key case dealing with employer arbitration agreements, wants the court's reasoning extended to a fourth NLRB member who was appointed nearly three years ago.

KPMG Fails to Persuade Judge to Dismiss Gender Discrimination Class Action
Publication Date: 2013-02-08
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Sanford Wittels, which has helped file a string of sexual bias suits against some of the biggest companies in the world, scored a modest win on Thursday when a U.S. district court refused to dismiss a gender discrimination claim that the firm has brought on behalf of five women who used to work for accounting giant KPMG.

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