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• The Vigilante in the Kitchen 

  IN THE SUMMER OF 2004, Cecilia Fischer received an e-mail with a tempting offer. The sender claimed to be the lawyer for a millionaire who had died...

  03/01/06 by Josh Rosenblum · More from publication

• Lordly Law 

  IN DECEMBER THE APPELLATE COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, the highest court in the United Kingdom, ruled unanimously that evidence obtained...

  03/01/06 by Louise Arimatsu · More from publication

• Shareholders Unplugged 

  CARL ICAHN, THE ONE-TIME CORPORATE RAIDER and present-day hedge-fund manager, portrays himself as a champion of the average investor. His latest...

  03/01/06 by Lynn A. Stout · More from publication

• Cases & Controversies 

  AND THE OSCAR GOES TO. . . WHEN KELLY SIEGLER, A COUNTY PROSECUTOR IN EAST TEXAS, wanted to explain to jurors how she thought Susan Wright had...

  03/01/06 · More from publication

• One Stop Law Shop 

  FOR TOO LONG, THE PRACTICE OF LAW IN THE UNITED STATES and Britain has been treated with kid gloves, as a learned profession that must be insulated...

  03/01/06 by Richard A. Epstein · More from publication

• A Firebrand Flickers 

  NEARLY THREE DECADES AGO, Catharine A. MacKinnon, the firebrand lawyer and scholar, played a critical part in transforming sexual harassment from...

  03/01/06 by Deborah Dinner · More from publication

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