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		<title>Should Chief Justice Recuse in Landmark &#8216;Wyeth&#8217; Case?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the top cases of the current Supreme Court term is , asking whether a state law tort action challenging the labeling on a Wyeth drug is pre-empted by federal law. Now, the outcome of the case could be in question because of the recent announcement by Pfizer Inc. that it would acquire Wyeth. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.umass.edu/dmacinne/2009/02/10/should-chief-justice-recuse-in-landmark-wyeth-case/</link>
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		<title>Quinn Emanuel Brochure Spills Value of Confidential Facebook Settlement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook paid the founders of ConnectU $65 million to settle lawsuits accusing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for the wildly successful social-networking Web site, according to a law firm&#8217;s marketing brochure. Lawyers in the heavyweight fight had expended great effort to keep the settlement secret, but ConnectU&#8217;s former lawyers from Quinn Emanuel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.umass.edu/dmacinne/2009/02/10/quinn-emanuel-brochure-spills-value-of-confidential-facebook-settlement/</link>
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		<title>Law Firms Suit Up for the A-Rod Steroids Scandal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend&#8217;s news that New York Yankee star Alex Rodriguez allegedly tested positive for anabolic steroid use in 2003 has moved the steroids-in-baseball conversation beyond the eventual admissibility of evidence to whether the disclosure of supposedly secret test results could be a crime. A former prosecutor said he expects U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.umass.edu/dmacinne/2009/02/10/law-firms-suit-up-for-the-a-rod-steroids-scandal/</link>
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		<title>Make a Successful Lateral Move in a Partnership Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Choosing to make a lateral move is a difficult decision. Making a lateral move in a partnership year poses especially unique challenges. Attorney Meredith S. Auten successfully switched firms as an associate in her eighth year of practice, and she was promoted to partner within a year of her move. She discusses her experience, including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.umass.edu/dmacinne/2009/02/10/make-a-successful-lateral-move-in-a-partnership-year/</link>
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		<title>Large Firm Layoffs Lead to Small Firm Startups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Omair Farooqui had always wanted to hang up his own shingle, but he had a good job as a mid-level associate at Manatt, Phelps Phillips. Then he got laid off last June. It was the nudge he needed, and the following month, he and attorney Javed Ellahie announced their new operation. Farooqui is not alone, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.umass.edu/dmacinne/2009/02/10/large-firm-layoffs-lead-to-small-firm-startups/</link>
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		<title>Seward  Kissel Lawyers Help Negotiate Deal With Somali Pirates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The day after Thanksgiving, James Christodoulou found himself in an impossible situation. The CEO of Stamford, Conn.-based Industrial Shipping Enterprises had just received word that a band of Somali pirates had boarded and hijacked one of his tankers &#8212; the Liberian-flagged MV Biscaglia &#8212; in the Gulf of Aden. Christodoulou turned to his company&#8217;s longtime [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.umass.edu/dmacinne/2009/02/10/seward-kissel-lawyers-help-negotiate-deal-with-somali-pirates/</link>
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		<title>Constitutional Lawyers Divided Over Fate of Guantanamo Detainees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay was where George W. Bush went to avoid law, both international and domestic. Closing the detention center is an easy decision for President Barack Obama &#8212; and the executive order to close it within a year comes as no surprise. Then what? Constitutional lawyers are bitterly divided, and where they stand depends on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.umass.edu/dmacinne/2009/02/10/constitutional-lawyers-divided-over-fate-of-guantanamo-detainees/</link>
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		<title>9th Circuit: Execs Lack Standing in Searches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a significant victory for white-collar prosecutors, the 9th Circuit has held that corporate executives lack standing to challenge workplace searches outside their offices unless they can show a personal connection to the place searched or material seized. The decision, which has already created a buzz among white-collar lawyers, treads into new territory by importing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.umass.edu/dmacinne/2009/02/10/9th-circuit-execs-lack-standing-in-searches/</link>
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		<title>Technology Rises in New Administration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new administration has repeatedly stated how technology will make government more transparent and how the country&#8217;s infrastructure requires innovation. Richard Raysman and Peter Brown discuss Barack Obama&#8217;s technology-related initiatives, and the legal issues involved.]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.umass.edu/dmacinne/2009/02/10/technology-rises-in-new-administration/</link>
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		<title>Corporate Lawyers Shift Gears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the capital market freeze wears on, corporate lawyers&#8217; energies have shifted from helping clients borrow money or raise cash through stock offerings to crafting complex debt-restructuring deals and calling in litigators to fight lawsuits from existing bondholders. Lawyers say many companies&#8217; need to push bond repayment dates into the future is driving the rush [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.umass.edu/dmacinne/2009/02/10/corporate-lawyers-shift-gears/</link>
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