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Dale Smith says his former attorneys intentionally concea= led from him the details of a settlement agreement they reached with DuPont= in a claim that alleged the company sold Smith and others a fungicide, Ben= late, that wiped out their crops. Smith had refused the settlement, but the= n lost in a jury trial. Full Text Lawyer's Defamation Claim Against ABA = Found Valid The Legal Intelligencer Attorney Richard Sprague has cleared a= major hurdle in his defamation lawsuit against the American Bar Associatio= n and its magazine, the ABA Journal, now that a Pennsylvania federal judge = has ruled that readers could have attached defamatory meaning to the magazi= ne's labeling Sprague a "fixer." Although the ABA argued that the descripti= on was intended as a compliment, the judge found the term also has a negati= ve meaning. 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Negotiations ove= r seven individual suits, which claim the company's evaluation system favor= ed younger, so-called diversity candidates, are scheduled to begin in earne= st this week. Full Text [IMAGE] Advice for In-House Counsel: Deleting C= omputer Chaos Corporate Counsel Nothing concentrates the mind like disas= ter, and the attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., prompted information= technology types and their corporate overseers to review their recovery pl= ans. Shockingly, some had none. Others weathered the crisis pretty well and= managed to get up and running quickly. So what's the lesson? Mobility and = redundancy are good. Centralization isn't. Visit the Automated Lawyer Spot= light Snapshot: Cleary Gottlieb's Brenton Miller Law Technology News B= renton Miller is director of knowledge management at Cleary, Gottlieb, Stee= n & Hamilton in New York. 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