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July 05, 2007 |

Roberts Court Takes A Pro-Business Stance

For years, if not decades, leading U.S. Chamber of Commerce lawyer Robin Conrad has told anyone who will listen that a conservative U.S. Supreme Court is not always a pro-business Supreme Court. But now, at the end of a course-changing, gut-wrenching term littered with heated 5-4 decisions, one bit of clarity is shining through: the Roberts Court, and especially its newest member, Samuel Alito Jr., are both very conservative and very pro-business, more so than any Supreme Court in decades.
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April 10, 2003 |

Danger Hidden in Federal Civil RICO Actions

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February 01, 2010 |

The 2010 Lateral Report Starring Roles

When Laura Brank (photo at left), who was managing partner of Chadbourne's Moscow and St. Petersburg offices, defected to Dechert's new Moscow group last November, the departure caused something of a cold war. Brank is one of this year's star laterals, our picks for the most important partner moves of 2009.
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February 01, 2006 |

The Lifesavers

With deft strategy and dogged work, Paul, Weiss lawyers steered their clients through the corporate plague years.
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Everything's Up to Date
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
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John Murphy, managing partner at Shook Hardy & Bacon, addresses the future of product liability litigation.

April 24, 2000 |

Pay to Play: Conventions' Sideshow

When the GOP convention kicks off in Philadelphia and Democrats gather in Los Angeles this summer, corporations and lobbyists will pay tens of thousands of dollars to throw lavish private parties in honor of individual lawmakers. The money goes neither to the candidates nor to the parties' national committees. Instead, corporations are paying for the pleasure of gaining unfettered access to lawmakers.
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September 27, 2004 |

Supreme Court Ponders Religion's Place

The U.S. Supreme Court convenes in a closed conference today to consider more than 1,900 new cases. Leading the list of cases that might be granted review are several First Amendment establishment clause disputes involving prison inmates' religious rights and Ten Commandments displays on public property. The Ten Commandments cases have been grabbing the headlines, but it's the Virginia prison rights case that may have a better chance of being granted review.
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May 26, 2008 |

The 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America

A mere 5.4% of partners at U.S. law firms were members of minority groups. For women of color, the figure was fewer than 1.7%, according to the legal placement organization NALP. But what an amazing group of people those numbers represent, and what a payoff for the firms, law schools and corporations that invested in diversity. The National Law Journal presents 50 minority lawyers who have had a national impact in their legal fields.
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April 02, 2007 |

Topical Index to Federal Case Digests

Federal case headnotes.
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Supreme Court Rules Against Altria In Preemption Case
Publication Date: 2008-12-15
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Oral arguments can be deceiving. In October our reporter Tony Mauro wrote that the U.S Supreme Court appeared to be siding with Altria Group in a lawsuit brought by Maine smokers testing whether they could bring false advertising claims regarding "light" cigarettes in state court. Mauro, who knows as much about the high court as almost any observer, wrote that Altria's lawyer, Theodore Olson of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, appeared to convince the justices that the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act preempted this suit because it involved smoking and health claims. In contrast, he wrote, the plaintiffs' lawyer, David Frederick of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, "struggled to persuade the court that this suit was about consumer fraud and deception, and thus was not preempted."

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