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11 hrs ago | TechCrunch

Backstage at Disrupt, America's CTO Todd Park is Giving Away Really Big Data

Currently, operations @votizen / Advisor to @gumroad, @dygestnews, and @rexly, where I worked previously.

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Related Topix: The Data Company, Startups, TechCrunch

15 hrs ago | 760 WJR

Mississippi Agrees to Stop Handcuffing Students to Poles

Students will no longer be handcuffed to poles in a Jackson, Mississippi public school.

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Related Topix: Jackson, MS, Education Etc., Southern Poverty Law Center

Sat May 26, 2012

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Man says Ore. psychiatrist told him he wasn't gay

Max Hirsh says he sensed something wasn't quite right when the psychiatrist focused on his failures with sports and teenage girls, as well as his deficient relationships with older men, particularly his father.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Southern Poverty Law Center, University of Oregon

Daily Report

Ted Olson takes aim at teacher tenure

Theodore Boutrous and Theodore Olson, two of the attorneys who persuaded a federal judge to strike down California's gay marriage ban as unconstitutional two years ago, are setting their sights on another social issue: State laws governing how schools evaluate teachers.

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Related Topix: Gibson Dunn and Crutcher, Family, Teenagers, Non-Profit, Los Angeles County, CA

Finance and Commerce

Rethinking space: Law firms on the move

By Patrick Thornton Tags: Barbara Clark , Campbell Mithun , Capella Tower , Carlson Caspers , CBRE , Dick Keller , Dorsey & Whitney , Jim Vos , Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly , Plaza VII , Tara Norgard The law firm Carlson Caspers has leased space on the 32nd floor of the Capella Tower in Minneapolis since 2003.

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Related Topix: Campbell Mithun, Advertising, Dorsey and Whitney, Minneapolis, MN, Edina, MN

The Kansas City Star

Miss district agrees to stop handcuffing students

Jackson public schools will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on better methods of discipline.Mississippi's second-largest school district agreed Friday to the settlement with the Southern Poverty Law Center, which had sued over the practice of shackling students to a pole at the ... (more)

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Southern Poverty Law Center, Jackson, MS

Journal Gazette

People and places

When Snoop Dogg passed through Willie Nelson's neck of the woods during South By Southwest in March, he took some time to pay tribute to his unlikely friend.

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Related Topix: Barnes and Thornburg, Fort Wayne, IN, Gary, IN

Fri May 25, 2012

Leadership for Lawyers

The future of law practice

When consulting with law firms, I frequently get asked about the future of law practice.

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Related Topix: Seyfarth Shaw

Business Journal

Dewey & LeBoeuf's Boston office loses another partner

Thomas H. Redekopp , a former Dewey & LeBoeuf corporate partner, has joined Duane Morris LLP 's corporate technology practice in Boston.

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Related Topix: Duane Morris

WAPT-TV Jackson

Jackson schools agree to stop handcuffing students

Jackson Public Schools will no longer handcuff students to fixed objects and will train staff at its alternative school in better disciplinary methods.

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Related Topix: Jackson, MS, Education Etc., Southern Poverty Law Center

TheBlaze.com

SPLC Names New Black Panther Malik Zulu Shabazz to Its 'Radical ...

SPLC Names New Black Panther Malik Zulu Shabazz to Its 'Radical Right' Activist List The Blaze has told you before A aboutA New Black Panther leader Malik Zulu Shabazz and his radical ideology.

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Related Topix: Southern Poverty Law Center, US Politics, US News

Utility Products

King & Spalding Adds New Partners to Energy Practice

Further broadening its energy practice, King & Spalding has recruited James F. Bowe, Jr., as a partner, and William E. Rice as a counsel, in its Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced.

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Related Topix: King and Spalding, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Energy

Law.com

Coudert Client Matters Are Assets of Bankrupt Firm, Court Decides

Granting partial summary judgment for the administrator for Coudert's estate against Akin Gump; Arent Fox; Dorsey & Whitney; Dechert and six other firms that hired former Coudert attorneys, Southern District Judge Colleen McMahon said the pending but incomplete client matters were "assets" the former Coudert partners have a duty to account for.

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Related Topix: Dorsey and Whitney

Thu May 24, 2012

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Michael Paul Williams: Lawyer helps homeless teens defy odds

Sophia Harper , 19, wears the dress she picked out for graduation at the Target store at Broad and Libbie.

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Related Topix: Hunton and Williams, Bob McDonnell, US Governors, Opinion

Law.com

7 Ways to Build Credibility During Government FCPA Investigations

Good communication is key to any relationship-particularly when that relationship is with the U.S. government, and they're inquiring about a possible violation by your company of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Davis Polk and Wardwell

CisionWire

Data Security and Employee Misconduct Top List of Silicon Valley Executives' Crisis Concerns

Crisis situations stemming from security breaches and employee actions are very real, and companies should have a game plan in place to handle such events.

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Related Topix: Weil Gotshal and Manges, East Palo Alto, CA, Public Relations

JD Journal

Hyun Chung Joins Greenberg Traurig

Subscribe to our FREE daily news alerts and get the latest updates on the most happening events in the legal, business, and celebrity world.

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Related Topix: Greenberg Traurig

Reuters

Dow says wins $2.16 billion in Kuwait arbitration

An arbitrator ruled Kuwait's state-run chemical company must pay Dow Chemical Co $2.16 billion for wrongly canceling a planned plastics joint venture in 2008, Dow said on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Rubber-Plastics, Manufacturing, Dow Chemical, Chemicals, Shearman and Sterling

Crain's Chicago Busines

Philadelphia law firm opens Chicago office

Dechert said it hired three partners from Chicago-based Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP: David Kistenbroker, Joni Jacobsen and Carl Volz.

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Related Topix: Dechert

The Recorder

Pao Says Ex-Apple Lawyer Among Those That Discriminated Against Her

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers investment partner Ellen Pao, a former Cravath, Swaine & Moore lawyer who is suing the Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm for gender discrimination and retaliation, has retained a San Francisco lawyer who brought one of the first successful sexual harassment suits against a major law firm.

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Related Topix: Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Venture Capital, Startups, Financial Services, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Emerging Technology, Investment Services, Cravath Swaine and Moore

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