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A $1 million grant from the Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation will fund the new Diane Halle Center for Family Justice at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O?Connor College of Law.
The layoffs that thinned the ranks of associates at Boston-area law firms have subsided, and legal recruiters say firms are more receptive to hiring as business picks up in a variety of practice areas.
Bryan Cave said Thursday that on April 1, it will expand its securities litigation practice with the arrival of two lateral partners and four counsel to the St. Louis office.
Litigation law firm Daller Greenberg & Dietrich said Monday it will merge with Rochester, N.Y.-based Ward Norris Heller & Reidy and relocate its main office from Conshohocken to Philadelphia. The merger, effective April 1, will create a newly combined firm named Ward Greenberg Heller & Reidy.
In a David vs. Goliath-type battle, a small Irving business that does patent licensing and runs a rewards program for vehicle fueling is taking on grocery giant Kroger Co.
The current economic environment might not seem like the best environment to be in expansion mode, but that hasn?t stopped many local law and accounting firms from broadening their reach.
Latham & Watkins LLP has boosted its energy industry practice with the addition of several new partners coming in from other legal firms.
The employment outlook for legal professionals is looking brighter for the second quarter, according to a report Wednesday by the Robert Half Legal Hiring Index.
Triad law firms say they aren?t slashing the number of attorneys they will promote to partner this year because of the recession, but that?s largely because a trend toward fewer partner promotions had already been in place the past few years.
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The D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility has recommended to the
D.C. Court of Appeals that former White House aide Claude Allen, who
pleaded guilty in 2006 to one misdemeanor count of theft of property
under $500, be suspended from the practice of law for one year. Allen
contended that his conduct was a result of severe stress stemming from
his time as an assistant to President George W. Bush for domestic policy
issues during and after Hurricane Katrina.
In a serious defeat for federal prosecutors, the second trial of blogger Harold Turner, the New Jersey white supremacist charged with threatening to kill three 7th Circuit judges, has resulted in a second mistrial. At the end of their second full day of deliberations Wednesday, the jurors said another day of deliberations would be useless, the third time they reported that they believed a unanimous verdict was impossible. Prosecutors will now have to decide whether to ask the 7th Circuit judges to appear for a third trial.
In a challenge to a San Francisco law that bans tobacco sales at drug stores, three California appeal court justices on Wednesday looked like they wanted to avoid ruling on Walgreens' constitutional argument that the city is violating equal protection rights. Instead, the panel appeared more interested in whether a drug store that sells food is really a grocery store that would be exempt. The local ordinance bans tobacco sales at drug stores but not at supermarkets or stores like Costco.
Six of the nine Supreme Court justices attended the State of the Union address in January, but don't be surprised if that number goes way down next year, in light of comments made by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. in Alabama on Tuesday, after he was asked about an unusual episode that occurred at this year's address. Said Roberts: "To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally, I'm not sure why we're there."
King & Spalding announced on Tuesday its long-awaited 2010 pay scale for Atlanta partner-track associates in an internal memo obtained by the Fulton County Daily Report. The new pay scale ranges from $135,000 for a first-year associate to $190,000 for an eighth-year. Depending on class year, the new pay scale either lessens the effect of a September pay cut or restores some associates' pay to what they were making a year ago. The firm also announced that it will pay associate bonuses for 2009.
Former Sens. John Breaux and Trent Lott are in talks to more formally combine forces with law and lobbying firm Patton Boggs, according to a source. Rumors of such a deal have been spreading for months. Breaux, via an assistant, declined to comment, but said he has had offers from other firms since the Breaux Lott Leadership Group opened. Breaux and Lott are already special public policy advisers to Patton Boggs.
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Statutory consumer-protection laws are rapidly displacing common law tort principles. Those behind this disturbing trend say that these lawsuits (typically class actions) represent a ?different avenue of relief for a different type of injury.? Most admit, however, that they are actually running consumer class actions for ?risk of injury? because personal-injury class action torts are too difficult to certify.
Over the past several years, the government has dramatically increased its efforts to enforce the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The number of enforcement actions brought annually by the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission, which both enforce the statute, has ballooned from an average of two to four in the first 20 years of the statute's existence to more than 30 in both 2007 and 2008. Officials have stated publicly that enforcement efforts will remain active for the foreseeable future, acknowledging that there are approximately 100 cases currently under investigation. With that in mind, it is worthwhile to look at the statute and some of the key trends that are likely to play a prominent role in 2009's enforcement environment.
A recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirms an order requiring a nonparty to spend $6 million (9% of its annual operating budget) to comply with an e-discovery subpoena. The D.C. Circuit's ruling highlights the importance of counsel understanding issues related to e-discovery, and the potential scope of that discovery, before entering into any type of agreement governing the future conduct of discovery in the case.
Attorneys hired by a Long Island, N.Y., village cannot be held liable under federal civil rights law for the advice they offered, which a developer claims caused costly delays to his condominium project, a federal judge has ruled.
Class action waiver in charge card agreement could not be enforced where doing so would grant card issuer de facto immunity from antitrust liability by removing plaintiffs' only reasonably feasible means of recovery (considering, as matter of first impression in circuit, enforcement of mandatory arbitration clause in commercial contract that also contains class action waiver, but avoiding question whether class action waiver provisions are void or enforceable per se).
Where Bankruptcy Appellate Panel reversed bankruptcy court's grant of summary judgment on debtor's motion to discharge debt, and further remanded adversary action for trial, order was non-final and thus fell outside jurisdiction of court of appeals.
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