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May 03, 1999 |

Pataki Links Drug Reform to Parole Limits

ALBANY -- Governor Pataki proposed a pair of modest measures to soften the impact of the Rockefeller drug laws on some non-violent offenders in exchange for ending parole for all first-time felons and arming prosecutors with an array of new powers. The Governor calls it is a fair, balanced approach. But sentencing reform advocates complained his plan does too little to redress "gross injustices" under the state's mandatory drug sentencing structure.
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May 10, 2005 |

Anti-Apartheid Hero Works to Protect His Name From Commercialization

Anti-apartheid hero. Icon of peace and racial reconciliation. Brand name? Nelson Mandela has deployed a team of lawyers to make sure the commercial label doesn't stick, going after opportunists, criminals -- and now even an old friend. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate's legal battle against his former attorney illustrates the complexities of protecting Mandela's name from commercial predators while allowing his fans to re-christen roads, squares, bridges, universities and shantytowns in his honor.
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June 08, 2000 |

Embracing the 'Enemy'

While some lawyers may fear the impact the World Wide Web has on the practice of law, others see the Internet as a way to make the delivery of legal services more efficient, convenient and accessible for people everywhere.
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September 19, 2003 |

Strange Bedfellows

Matt Reed was strolling through a fashion trade show in London when a T-shirt display stopped him in his tracks. Reed, a co-founder and business director of Oakland's Cosmic Debris, had caught someone selling a knock-off of the company's "Emily the Strange" T-shirt. "Emily's" surge in popularity has kept Cosmic Debris and its lawyers scrambling to protect the company's trademarks and copyrights and illustrates the problems a small company can face when it launches a popular product.
5 minute read
December 02, 2011 |

Robin Rosenbaum nominated for U.S. District Court

U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin Rosenbaum, a federal prosecutor for nearly 10 years, has been nominated by President Obama for a U.S. District Court seat.
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Law Journal Press | Digital Book White Collar Crime: Business and Regulatory Offenses Authors: Otto G. Obermaier, Robert G. Morvillo (deceased), Robert J. Anello, Barry A. Bohrer View this Book

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June 30, 2003 |

Former Associate Sues V&E Alleging Discrimination

Houston-based Vinson & Elkins is the defendant in a suit filed recently by one of its former associates, an African-American female attorney who alleges V&E engaged in unlawful employment practices that violated her civil rights.
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February 18, 2002 |

Judicial Profile: Presiding Judge David Baime

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October 11, 2005 |

Post-Its and Paper Clips: How Low-Tech Prevailed in Patent Case

In a patent infringement case in federal court, Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon Endo-Surgery showed the jury a massive video screen filled with images of the device at issue -- a medical tool that removes tissue for biopsies. Worried that the oversized images would distort the jury's view of the device, attorney Jack Scarola constructed his own replica of the device using Post-it notes, paper clips and homegrown ingenuity. Call it low rent, but Scarola won $2 million for his client.
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March 21, 2008 |

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September 01, 2008 |

TIME OFF: Going to Martha's

Mid-nineteenth-century Methodists who congregated in Cottage City on Martha's Vineyard might be amazed.
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