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Since the moment he was introduced 50 years ago in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch has represented both an image lawyers crave and a standard that intimidates them.
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The case of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and the massage therapist has been closed.
The showdown between Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid has fascinated the American public for nearly 130 years with its classic, Old West storyline of the fr...More...
A mother whose three children were found starving after being shut away in a hotel bathroom for as long as nine months was sentenced to life in prison Fr...More...
Baker & McKenzie has agreed to pay $6.65 million to compensate the bankruptcy estate of Coudert Brothers for profits Baker earned from unfinished business that partners took with them when they left the defunct Coudert firm, according to Am La...More...
K&L Gates and Shearman & Sterling are two of a number of Am Law 100 firms who have committed bodies and hours over the past year to pro bono work on cases dedicated to improving and protecting the quality of the world's water supply.
The phrase "bet-the-company case" gets thrown around a lot. But when Rosenkranz took over MGA's appeal of a sweeping injunction that turned over its billion-dollar Bratz doll franchise to Mattel, he truly did save his client from corporate extinct...More...
Baker Botts informed associates this week that the firm will move from its lockstep approach in determining pay and promotions to a merit-based system beginning January 1, according to Am Law Daily sibling publication Texas Lawyer.
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Michael French was also "affiliated" with Jones Day at one point, according to a Senate subcommittee report.
A federal appeals court has ordered two executives convicted in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud case to be resentenced.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati said Wednesday the government hadn't proved Donald Ayers and Roger Fau...More...
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