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In the March 2008 Print Edition...
There is much more to be found in the print edition of The American Lawyer. Below are the contents of the February 2008 issue.
Cover Story
Taming Texas
MoFo's Rachel Krevans and a handful of savvy defense lawyers have finally stopped the runaway juries of the Lone Star State.
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By Nate Raymond
Features
Justice Georgia Style
A treason trial in Tbilisi raises disturbing questions about the progress of legal reform in the former Soviet republic.
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By Julie Triedman
Shut Out
DLA Piper devoted 25 lawyers, two years, and millions of dollars to investigating baseball's drug problems. A behind-the-scenes look at the team's efforts.
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By Paul Braverman
Mississippi Blues
Ten years after the big tobacco settlement, famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard Scruggs has a string of spectacular failures to his name-and an indictment.
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By Susan Beck
Bar Talk
Fear Factor
How worried are you about the looming recession? That probably depends on your place in the firm hierarchy. Why some lawyers dread layoffs-and others welcome the opportunity.
By Ben Hallman
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So Long, Susman
Sallie Mae Þnds someone else to settle the Flowers suit.
By Nate Raymond
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Inside Out
Working the split shift at an Indian legal outsourcing company.
By Andrew Longstreth
Missal's Hit
The New Century examiner goes after O'Melveny.
By Nate Raymond
Into Africa
SimmonsCooper's novel international expansion.
By Richard Lloyd
A Powerful Re-Tort
A Texas plaintiffs lawyer finds a use for tort reform.
By Nate Raymond
Selling Out
Major, Lindsey & Africa changes hands.
David Bario
Who's Monitoring the Monitors?
Congress and Justice want to know.
By Daphne Eviatar
Oil Slick
Chevron wins sanctions against a plaintiffs lawyer.
By David Bario
Subprime Shakeout
What's the ultimate in countercyclical legal work? These days it's the burgeoning subprime mortgage mess.
Book of Business
The month's top lateral moves.
Departments
In-House
The story behind the stories.
By Aric Press
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Big Suits
United Rentals v. RAM Holdings et al.
Genesco v. Finish Line et al.
Boim et al. v. Quranic Literacy Institute et al.
BP v. Neodesha, Kansas
Big Deals
Ingersoll-Rand/Trane
Vivendi/Activision
National Oilwell Varco/Grant Prideco
Big Deals/Canada
Bourse de MontrŽal
IBM/Cognos
TAQA/PrimeWest Energy
Arguments: Firm Hillary
Hillary Clinton is the prototypical corporate lawyer-and that's not such a bad thing.
By By Susan Lehman
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Global Lawyer: Not DeadÉYet
Place your bets now: Three alien tort cases are cued up for the Supreme Court.
By Michael D. Goldhaber
Letter from London: My One and Only
Eversheds and Tyco forge a novel two-year $20 million deal in Europe.
By Richard Lloyd
Associate Life: The Lost Generation?
Associates are fleeing firms in droves, but here's how firms-and their clients-can stanch the defections.
By Ben W. Heineman, Jr., and David B. Wilkins
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Dicta: Ice Man Cometh
A fight with FEMA turns a Mississippi sheriff into a local celebrity.
By Scott Horton
The Lawyer's Life
Time Off: Umbrian Idyll
Umbria, Italy.
By Anthony Paonita
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Motion: Bringing Up Baby
Mercedes Benz C300.
By Robert Gordon
Case of the Month: Burgundy Extravaganza
2005 red Burgs.
By John Anderson
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