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October 01, 2007 |

Could a GC Job Be a Ticket to the Top?

Enough corporate lawyers have become chief executives to spark a conversation about whether the GC's office is the new springboard to the top. The answer is yes, no, maybe or maybe later, depending on who is asked. In general, legal training helps develop important skills for negotiating, isolating issues and making decisions. But that sharp set of legal skills can cut both ways. One expert warns that any of those skills, "if carried to an extreme, would be less desirable as a manager."
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December 20, 2005 |

House Passes Liability Protections for Drug Manufacturers

Drug manufacturers are a step closer toward winning the liability protections they say they need before investing in medicines to combat a bird flu pandemic. Consumers seeking damages on claims they were harmed by a vaccine would have to prove willful misconduct by drug makers, instead of the lower standard of negligence used in many product liability cases. Opponents describe the protections, approved Monday by the House, as a "massive Christmas bonus to the drug companies."
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December 20, 2010 |

How One BigLaw Partner, Desperate to Pump Up His Billables, Wound Up as Flunky to a Con Man

A former New York partner at Winston & Strawn, Jonathan S. Bristol, pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of laundering more than $20 million through his escrow accounts in connection with an alleged multi-million dollar fraud run by Kenneth Starr, a financial advisor to celebrities.
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Arab Bank Can't Undo Sanctions in Terror Funding Case
Publication Date: 2013-01-21
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Despite the efforts of Mayer Brown's Stephen Shapiro, Amman, Jordan-based Arab Bank plc failed last week to reverse what it has called a "disastrous" ruling in its billion-dollar court battle with victims of terrorist attacks and their families.

September 05, 2012 |

Whistleblowing Incentives for Lawyers?

Second Circuit weighs whether conflict rules bar attorneys from suing ex-employers under the Flase Claims Act.
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April 05, 1999 |

Justices Weigh a Tax on Judges

Thirty years ago, a young William M. Acker Jr. successfully argued a racial bias case at the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of black railroad workers. Now a senior federal judge in Alabama, he returned to the high court recently, not as an advocate but as an alleged tax scofflaw. Victory may be more elusive the second time around.
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April 13, 2010 |

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October 09, 2006 |

Calendar

N.J. Law Journal calendar of events.
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May 10, 2011 |

NY Partners Switching Firms

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Fee Fight: The Next Battle in Oracle and Google's Smartphone War?
Publication Date: 2012-06-15
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We expect Google to try to recoup the small fortune it surely paid Keker & Van Nest and two other firms to do battle with the likes of David Boies and top Morrison & Foerster IP litigators.

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