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A former acting chief of the Justice Department’s Office
A former acting chief of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel said Tuesday he is “not opposed” to a criminal investigation of the office, which was at the center of the Bush administration’s internal debate about torture. // Daniel Levin’s...
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Morrison & Foerster said Monday it will pay incoming associates $145,000
Morrison & Foerster said Monday it will pay incoming associates $145,000 in offices outside of New York and Asia, making it one of the first firms to publicly state it won’t pay California first-year associates as much as those in...
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Some of the Judges Debate Lewd Office Talk
Plaintiff argues that workplace use of gender-based slurs is discrimination // Some of the judges deciding a woman’s harassment claim against her employer for allowing lewd sex talk in the office resorted to code in Tuesday’s oral argument, debating with lawyers...
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Stanford Injured in a Jail Fight
Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who faces federal criminal charges related to an alleged conspiracy to defraud investors, “has been returned to a lockup after being hospitalized for treatment of a concussion following a jail fight,” according to www.nbcdfw.com, an...
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Davis Polk & Wardwell represented Irish drugmaker Warner Chilcott in a billion-dollar deal
For the second time in a month, Davis Polk & Wardwell represented Irish drugmaker Warner Chilcott in a billion-dollar deal. This time, however, Warner is the seller, not the buyer. A few weeks ago, Davis Polk advised Warner on the company’s...
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The Deal about Google’s online book
If a recent flurry of opposition from Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, the U.S. register of copyrights and the governments of Germany and France — to name just a few — wasn’t a clear enough indicator of disaster for the historic proposed...
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Barack Obama grant $25 million to examine alternatives to the current medical liability system
President Barack Obama ordered on Thursday that $25 million be made available in grants to examine alternatives to the current medical liability system. The order comes in a two-page memorandum to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The grants could...
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The judge decline to accept the damages of the horse lover on date
The month after Barbara Ann Stanislav and William J. Papp Jr. saw each other’s profiles on the Internet dating site Match.com in 2005, the two horse lovers made plans to go on a date to a Westchester, N.Y., stable. According to...
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The Georgia Supreme Court could be the next venue to decide who can recover any damages from the death of a teenager in an accident with a police car — the boy’s parents or the daughter whom he didn’t live...
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Corporate agency supervision is in a bad period
The next few months are shaping up as a critical time in the life of the post-Enron, post-WorldCom reform agency — the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Sometime in October, the five-member board, created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to...
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