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October 11, 2007 |

Davis, plaintiff-appellant v. Blige, defendants-appellees

Infringement Suit by Song�s Co-Author Not Defeated By Copyright�s �Retroactive� Transfer to Infringer
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July 06, 2000 |

Pendent Jurisdiction

In the 1980s and early 1990s, federal appellate courts often resorted to a doctrine known as "pendent appellate jurisdiction" to review lower court rulings that were not independently appealable. In 1995, in Swint v. Chambers County Commission, however, the U.S. Supreme Court cast doubt on the propriety of the doctrine. Undaunted, federal courts have increasingly exploited language in Swintto breathe life back into pendent appellate jurisdiction.
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December 20, 2010 |

CIVIL ACTIONS

The following cases were recently filed in Washington-area district courts. This information is provided by the courts' official online bulletins.
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December 06, 2004 |

Firm-by-firm sampling of billing rates nationwide

The National Law Journal asked the respondents to its 2004 survey of the nation's 250 largest law firms to provide hourly billing rate information for partners and associates firmwide and in their principal offices.
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July 29, 2004 |

Nelson Mullins Cleans Out Smith, Currie's Labor Practice

Meredith [email protected] Monday, Smith, Currie Hancock will lose all but one of its labor and employment lawyers, as well as several million dollars worth of work, to Nelson Mullins Riley Scarborough. Daniel M. Shea, who leads the departing five-member labor and employment team, said that the last thing he wanted to do after 31 years at Smith, Currie was uproot himself.
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May 25, 2009 |

Roughing It: It's Summertime, But the Working Isn't As Easy

The days of extravagant summer associates' programs featuring meals at pricey restaurants, dinner cruises, suites at sporting events and weekends out of town seem to be over for now, with large Texas firms scaling back on the summer social events as well as the size of the summer programs. Munsch Hardt's Kitty O'Connell Henry (pictured), co-chairwoman of the firm's law school hiring program, says, "We've cut back on a few things."
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August 04, 2005 |

States Ride Post-Kelo Wave of Legislation

Tresa [email protected] YORK-Call it the post-Kelo wave. Just five weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of eminent domain to seize private property for economic development, more than half of the states have introduced legislation to thwart potential abuses. Since the June 23 ruling in Kelo v. City of New London, 125 S.
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November 05, 2010 |

Associates Class of 2010

It's too soon to say whether the recovery cycle has kicked in for New Jersey law firms, but our annual yearbook of new associates shows that after two years of decline, hiring is back on the upswing.
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