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A Multidisciplinary Team That Can Cope With The Subprime Crisis

Editor: What is the background of the firm's Subprime Lending Team? Kaplinsky: As you know, we have a very large and well recognized national consumer financial services practice going back for as long as I've been at Ballard Spahr which is about 14 years. In that practice, the firm...

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Go West, Young Man!

Editor: Please provide our readers with a history of Ballard Spahr's Los Angeles office. Sampson: The history is very brief because we just opened the office at the end of August 2007. Prior to joining Ballard Spahr, I had known some of the lawyers in the firm's Resort Group for a number of years...

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Former Prosecutors - Ideal Investigators

Editor: You're among the handful of former long-standing prosecutors now working at law firms who conduct internal investigations. How are the skill sets you developed as prosecutors useful in your new role as internal investigators? Smith: Inherently, the issue in every...

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The Need For Wise Counsel In The Face Of Ever-Changing Labor And Employment Law

Editor: Please describe the Labor, Employment and Immigration Group at Ballard Spahr. Of your 11 offices, how many are engaged in this practice? Langel: We have a national practice in the traditional labor area - even in places where we do not have an office. Our lawyers have...

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Tone At The Top - Part II

Part I of this article, which appeared in the June issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, began with an overview of the Treadway Commission's finding that "tone at the top" can be a factor in fraudulent financial reporting. The authors cited an example of such a case less publicized than the...

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Tone At The Top - Part I

I. Overview In its October 1987 Report, the Treadway Commission noted a number of factors that cause fraudulent financial reporting to occur, and also made a number of recommendations to assist companies and their advisors to avoid fraud. The area on which the Treadway Commission focused in...

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A Thoughtful Look At Building A Diversified Real Estate Practice

Editor: Mr. Sklaroff, would you tell our readers something about your professional experience? Sklaroff: After graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1967, I clerked for a trial judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. After two...

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