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New York Lottery sued By Walter Olson, 05-07-2008

GOP House Leader Calls for Hearings into Milberg Weiss By Carter Wood, 05-02-2008

More on the World Trade Center bombing decision By Ted Frank, 05-01-2008

Around the Web, April 28 By Carter Wood, 04-28-2008

Cheney at the Manhattan Institute By Walter Olson, 04-22-2008

$959,733 for lobbying, $585,134 in campaign contributions By Walter Olson, 04-18-2008

Law school pork-barreling in Albany, cont'd By Walter Olson, 04-15-2008

Albany: legislative earmark for Stony Brook, Rochester law schools By Walter Olson, 04-12-2008

Medical no-fault for New York? By Walter Olson, 04-11-2008

Greenhouse replacement: Times gets lucky By Walter Olson, 04-07-2008

James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2007 By Ted Frank, 03-31-2008

NY Times on Ground Zero dust lawyer By Walter Olson, 03-30-2008

Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America By Walter Olson, 03-28-2008

NYS Board of Elections v. Lopez Torres By Walter Olson, 03-20-2008

"On the Tort Reform Angle, Too Bad about Spitzer" By Walter Olson, 03-19-2008

"Where is Dr. Carl?" By Walter Olson, 03-15-2008

"Radioactive in this environment" By Walter Olson, 03-13-2008

Money-laundering charges: "It happens all the time" By Walter Olson, 03-13-2008

Spitzer exit negotiations By Walter Olson, 03-12-2008

Spitzer scandal, around the web By Walter Olson, 03-11-2008

Customer No. 9, or the fall of Spitzer? By Ted Frank, 03-10-2008

"Attorney Faces Criminal Charges After Clients Quit Their Nursing Jobs" By Walter Olson, 03-05-2008

Silver's pick for judicial panel By Walter Olson, 03-04-2008

Well, that sure worked out well By Walter Olson, 03-03-2008

N.Y. high court: no time limit on AIDS-phobia claims By Walter Olson, 03-03-2008

Double Standards at Duke -- and in the Courts By Hans Bader, 02-24-2008

Spitzer and the bond insurers By Walter Olson, 02-20-2008

NY high court OKs derivative suits against LLPs By Walter Olson, 02-15-2008

Reasonable and customary By Walter Olson, 02-15-2008

"Rules add $200,000 to Seattle house price" By Walter Olson, 02-14-2008

Employment at will in New York By Walter Olson, 02-14-2008

History of NYC law department By Walter Olson, 02-07-2008

Altria departs New York... By Walter Olson, 01-31-2008

New York's judge-picking methods not a federal constitutional violation By Walter Olson, 01-17-2008

New Point of Law column: "The Time We Saved the City" By Walter Olson, 01-03-2008

"Disaster" foreseen with NY malpractice surcharge By Walter Olson, 12-28-2007

Sues NYC for $250 million, is surprised at city's reaction By Walter Olson, 12-18-2007

N.Y. Observer profiles the Manhattan Institute By Walter Olson, 12-13-2007

NYC mulls "caregiver discrimination" law By Walter Olson, 12-06-2007

"F**th*rb*dd*ng" By Walter Olson, 11-27-2007

Problem teachers dig in; NYC lawyers up By Walter Olson, 11-26-2007

"New N.Y. Law School in Binghamton?" By Walter Olson, 11-24-2007

Product redesign in the New York courts By Walter Olson, 11-20-2007

Epstein lunch Dec. 6 in NYC By Walter Olson, 11-19-2007

NYC council: poor tenants should have eviction lawyers By Walter Olson, 11-19-2007

Greenwich, Ct. public schools By Walter Olson, 11-18-2007

Local governments and liability reform By Walter Olson, 11-09-2007

Putting the mort in mortgage By Walter Olson, 11-09-2007

Dynamic cities and legal hurdles to building By Walter Olson, 11-07-2007

Richard Epstein in NYC Thurs. evening 11/8 By Walter Olson, 11-01-2007

Parade of new blogs By Walter Olson, 10-31-2007

Was it the 9/11 dust he inhaled? By Walter Olson, 10-31-2007

Dept. of New York Times self-parody By Walter Olson, 10-29-2007

New York's Taylor Law By Walter Olson, 10-22-2007

"How horrible does someone need to be...?" By Walter Olson, 10-16-2007

Hofstra Law School and Lynne Stewart, cont'd By Walter Olson, 10-12-2007

Top Ten thanks By Walter Olson, 10-10-2007

New York's ob/gyn crisis By Walter Olson, 09-29-2007

Spitzer stumbles in jockey-weighing case By Walter Olson, 09-22-2007

Schumer's vanishing endorsement By Walter Olson, 09-21-2007

"Accuracy of 9/11 Health Reports Is Questioned" By Walter Olson, 09-07-2007

Deutsche Bank tower By Walter Olson, 09-06-2007

New York orthopedic surgeons By Walter Olson, 08-31-2007

Judge Dennis Jacobs, "The Secret Life of Judges" By Walter Olson, 08-29-2007

California municipal liability costs By Walter Olson, 08-25-2007

The Voting Rights Act hits Port Chester By Walter Olson, 08-07-2007

Mortgage minefield? By Walter Olson, 08-05-2007

SarbOx and Spitzenfreude By Walter Olson, 07-31-2007

New York's other political scandal By Walter Olson, 07-27-2007

Judge rules N.Y. lawyer-ad rules unconstitutional By Walter Olson, 07-25-2007

Around the web, July 16 By Walter Olson, 07-16-2007

Welcome NYTimes.com readers By Walter Olson, 07-10-2007

New York Court of Appeals: DWI law does not apply to chemical inhalants By David Rossmiller, 06-28-2007

Fair Housing follies: don't mention the school district By Ted Frank, 06-25-2007

Type sizes on the Wendy's menu By Walter Olson, 06-22-2007

Mali immigrant fire By Walter Olson, 06-20-2007

Sued 200 times a week By Walter Olson, 06-18-2007

NY judges to sue for more money? By Walter Olson, 06-14-2007

Aluminum bats and NYC paternalism By Walter Olson, 06-11-2007

Defending Clarence Thomas By Walter Olson, 06-08-2007

"New York to the DOJ: Hands Off Our Fire Department" By Walter Olson, 06-04-2007

N.Y. lawyer advertising rules, cont'd By Walter Olson, 05-22-2007

Got a "mean" boss? See 'em in court By Walter Olson, 05-15-2007

Roller rinks By Walter Olson, 05-14-2007

"Are U.S. IPOs D.O.A.?" By Walter Olson, 05-03-2007

"Source of income discrimination" By Walter Olson, 05-01-2007

Westchester may sue hospital auditors By Walter Olson, 05-01-2007

Do as we say, cont'd By Walter Olson, 04-23-2007

Albany to consider slavery reparations By Walter Olson, 04-16-2007

New York's scaffold law By Walter Olson, 04-10-2007

The quotable Chuck Schumer By Walter Olson, 04-09-2007

NY Times on Bloomberg's food nannyism By Walter Olson, 04-06-2007

Cameras in NY courtrooms? By Walter Olson, 03-28-2007

Bloomberg legal assault on gun dealers By Walter Olson, 03-28-2007

New York: clubhouse selection and the liability climate By Walter Olson, 03-23-2007

Rudy remembers NYC hospital lawsuits By Walter Olson, 03-22-2007

NY counties hire Silver's firms for drug-price suits By Walter Olson, 03-20-2007

New York mag on AG Cuomo By Walter Olson, 03-07-2007

"Back to basics, Dr. Frieden" By Walter Olson, 03-03-2007

NYC Transit Authority didn't own the stairs... By Walter Olson, 03-01-2007

NYC readers: Judge Janis Jack to Speak at Cardozo By Walter Olson, 02-22-2007

Connecticut mulls regulating hedge funds By Walter Olson, 02-14-2007

New York, "regional" financial capital-to-be? By Walter Olson, 02-09-2007

"Help us, Governor Spitzer!" By Walter Olson, 02-07-2007

WSJ on Sen. Schumer By Walter Olson, 01-30-2007

New featured column: Nicole Gelinas on Wall Street woes By Walter Olson, 01-30-2007

Health Wonk Review #24 By Walter Olson, 01-26-2007

New York's workers'-comp mess By Walter Olson, 01-26-2007

"How my ex-hubby paid to be judge" By Walter Olson, 01-24-2007

Adam Liptak column By Walter Olson, 01-23-2007

NY financial competitiveness By Walter Olson, 01-19-2007

Spitzer's Court of Appeals pick By Walter Olson, 01-17-2007

"$56,000 in Cash & Stamps For a Brooklyn Judgeship" By Walter Olson, 01-16-2007

Terrorism finance lawsuits By Walter Olson, 01-11-2007

New York lawyer advertising rules By Walter Olson, 01-06-2007

Gov. Spitzer's economic proposals By Walter Olson, 01-05-2007

Job descriptions in Cuomo AG office By Walter Olson, 12-21-2006

Trans fat commentaries By Walter Olson, 12-20-2006

"Why Are New York Car Insurance Rates So High?" By Walter Olson, 12-19-2006

Nice to be Appreciated Dept. By Walter Olson, 12-19-2006

SarbOx vs. NYC's future, cont'd By Walter Olson, 12-07-2006

French fry snatchers By Walter Olson, 12-05-2006

The Coase Theorem in action By Ted Frank, 11-28-2006

SOx reform a Bloomberg priority By Walter Olson, 11-26-2006

Court of Appeals orders $1.9B bailout for NYC schools By Walter Olson, 11-21-2006

NYSE's John Thain By Walter Olson, 11-12-2006

Wall Street's competitiveness By Walter Olson, 11-08-2006

NYC panel next Mon.: Thompson memo & the right to counsel By Walter Olson, 11-07-2006

New Jersey's school-finance-suit debacle By Walter Olson, 10-31-2006

Trans fat panic By Walter Olson, 10-31-2006

Hevesi ethical meltdown By Walter Olson, 10-28-2006

Op-eds by Jim By Walter Olson, 10-27-2006

Eliot Spitzer and excessive compensation By Walter Olson, 10-27-2006

"Spitzer is good for business" By Walter Olson, 10-25-2006

NYC panel next Wed.: law and the midterm elections By Walter Olson, 10-18-2006

Bloomberg's french fry grab, cont'd By Walter Olson, 10-11-2006

Parade of new blogs By Walter Olson, 10-11-2006

Fordham Law Film Festival By Walter Olson, 10-10-2006

Municipal liability in the news: Boston By Walter Olson, 10-09-2006

Comment period extended on NY lawyer-ad rules By Walter Olson, 10-08-2006

Big Brother in NYC's kitchens By Walter Olson, 09-29-2006

Silencing NY lawyer-bloggers, cont'd By Walter Olson, 09-29-2006

Small-town New York justice By Ted Frank, 09-25-2006

Silencing N.Y. lawyer-bloggers? II By Ted Frank, 09-25-2006

NYC Commission on Human Rights By Walter Olson, 09-23-2006

Silencing N.Y. lawyer-bloggers? By Walter Olson, 09-20-2006

NYC regulates gas pricing By Walter Olson, 09-18-2006

NYC jawbones ad shops into hire-by-numbers vow By Walter Olson, 09-09-2006

Spitzer to Greenberg: "never mind" By Larry Ribstein, 09-08-2006

Second Circuit: NY judicial selection unconstitutional By Walter Olson, 09-07-2006

Spitzer as New York governor By Walter Olson, 08-28-2006

Was Grasso worth it? who decides? By Larry Ribstein, 08-24-2006

Federal lawsuits against NYC By Walter Olson, 08-15-2006

"A walking conflict of interest" By Walter Olson, 07-12-2006

Spitzer, Faso, and the New York high court By Walter Olson, 06-30-2006

"Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer" By Walter Olson, 06-30-2006

"9/11 Suit Tests New York Stand on Immunity" By Ted Frank, 06-23-2006

Investment banking, securities analysis, and regulatory overreaction By Larry Ribstein, 06-23-2006

"Lawsuit Heaven -- NYC's Hell" By Walter Olson, 06-15-2006

Spitzer vs. mom-and-pop gas stations By Walter Olson, 06-09-2006

Eminent domain in NYC By Walter Olson, 06-03-2006

Foreseeability and proximate cause really is dead By Ted Frank, 05-26-2006

Sidewalks of New York By Sam Munson, 05-10-2006

NYC plans "interventions" with diabetics By Walter Olson, 05-05-2006

New column: "Picking Judges in New York" By Walter Olson, 05-03-2006

"Courts flunk the civics test" By Walter Olson, 04-11-2006

"So poorly drafted, so mind-blowingly muddled" By Walter Olson, 03-28-2006

"Albany Inc.: New York's Huge Hidden Tax" By Walter Olson, 01-23-2006

Philanthropy well spent By Walter Olson, 01-05-2006

"I will be coming after you" By Walter Olson, 12-22-2005

An opportunity for Spitzer By Ted Frank, 12-20-2005

Spitzer's payola settlement By Walter Olson, 11-27-2005

Spitzer: consumers have too many choices II By Ted Frank, 09-09-2005

Spitzer: consumers have too many choices By Walter Olson, 09-09-2005

Parade of new blogs By Walter Olson, 08-21-2005

"Education Policy in Wonderland" By Walter Olson, 08-17-2005

"The costliest governor election campaign in history" By Walter Olson, 08-08-2005

New York grand jury also going after asbestos plaintiffs? By Ted Frank, 07-20-2005

Judge Loses Seat By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-04-2005

Commitment to "social justice" By Walter Olson, 06-01-2005

N.J. bans "retaliating" against expert witnesses By Walter Olson, 05-18-2005

"Spitzer's favorite toy" By Walter Olson, 05-12-2005

Nannyism By Walter Olson, 04-28-2005

New York school-finance suit By Walter Olson, 03-30-2005

Litigation slush funds: subsidizing RFK, Jr. By Walter Olson, 03-03-2005

States' tobacco settlement update By Michael DeBow, 02-16-2005

"A Well-Oiled Machine" By Walter Olson, 02-15-2005

New York AG's office By Walter Olson, 12-16-2004

Bainbridge on Spitzer By Michael DeBow, 12-15-2004

"Extortion applauded" By Walter Olson, 12-10-2004

Spitzer's friends, cont'd By Walter Olson, 12-07-2004

Why Spitzer's targets go quietly By Walter Olson, 12-06-2004

Overlawyering the schools By James R. Copland, 11-29-2004

NJ plans rescue for med-mal insurer By Walter Olson, 10-26-2004

Sinclair Broadcasting: Meet Trial Lawyers, Inc. By James R. Copland, 10-25-2004

Defense costs, around the country By Walter Olson, 08-05-2004

Tobacco appeal bond update: the Empire State enters the fray? By James R. Copland, 07-26-2004

New York abolishes ad damnum By Walter Olson, 05-15-2004

Market-share liability: now prove you're innocent By Walter Olson, 05-14-2004



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