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October 12, 2005 |

E-Discovery Tops List of In-House Worries

Electronic discovery is the bogeyman that haunts the sleep of corporate legal counsel, according to Fulbright & Jaworski's annual study of in-house trends. With steep fines and jail sentences being handed out to corporations and executives that violate the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate counsel are taking a closer look at policies guiding record-keeping and disclosure, but the process is increasing litigation burdens and costs.
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March 07, 2006 |

Judicial Bias Claims Reach Calif. High Court

Attorneys arguing that California prosecutors routinely excluded Jews from death penalty juries have been asked a tricky question: Does it matter if the court record doesn't establish that any of the excused jurors were actually Jewish? The justices of the California Supreme Court posed that question in a habeas case last month, and they're going to want answers during oral arguments Wednesday. It's a new wrinkle in a case that has fascinated the legal community since 2004.
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August 01, 1999 |

Who Was Watching the Watcher?

Gerald Schrager was upset. It was September 1997 and he had just learned that the financial trustee of an ailing, rich, old client had purchased a Mercedes-Benz S-320. "I think you made a terrible mistake," the lawyer recalls telling the trustee who made the purchase. That car would someday be met "with a great deal of skepticism and scrutiny," warned Schrager, a partner at New York's Fischbein Badillo Wagner Harding. Schrager was right. Unfortunately, the scrutiny is on him, too.
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December 15, 2009 |

Hogan and Lovells partners approve merger

Partners at Hogan & Hartson and Lovells signed off on their megamerger in separate votes that ended at midnight on Monday. The move is one of the last big hurdles before the two firms officially set up shop, which is planned for May 1.
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December 10, 2012 |

INADMISSIBLE

DOJ smoked in tobacco appeal; fraud and Brown; Stokes retires; 'stache for cash; confirmations, finally; and Dole but no dice in this week's column.
5 minute read
May 27, 2003 |

PHILADELPHIA BAR ASSOCIATION CHARITY RUN

Place Finisher Age Time
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September 21, 2007 |

U.S. Firms in London Say They're More Merger-Minded

Legal Week's annual survey of U.S. firms in London reveals that 47 percent of respondents would consider a merger with a U.K. firm, up from 39 percent last year and just 29 percent in 2005. The trend may signal that firms realize how hard it is to grow organically in the London legal market, which by some measures is now the most costly in which to operate worldwide. Putting additional pressure on U.S. firms: the weak dollar and the related disadvantage in attracting heavy-hitting London partners.
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February 21, 2007 |

$3 Million Verdict Reached In Hormone Therapy Case

A city jury has reached a $3 million compensatory damages verdict in the re-trial of the Philadelphia Complex Litigation Center�s first hormone therapy case.
5 minute read
October 14, 2003 |

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December 12, 2007 |

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