Celia Cohen

May 04, 2000 | Law.com

In a profession that prizes workoholics, a handful of attorneys carve a comfy niche for themselves in customized work arrangements with their firms. Not surprisingly, a lot of them are working moms. How do the economics pan out for their firms, and can lawyers really free themselves from the "tyranny of the billable hour"?

By Celia Cohen

10 minute read

May 04, 1999 | Law.com

A California congressman slipped an anti-Delaware provision into a federal bankruptcy bill that would threaten Delaware's thriving bankruptcy practice by sharply paring away the corporate reorganizations that could be filed in the state. Delaware's influential congressional delegation is already riding to the rescue and expected to carry the day before the bill becomes law. The provision arose last month during the House Judiciary Committee's bill-drafting session on revising the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

By Celia Cohen

6 minute read

October 23, 2001 | Law.com

Jeffrey R. Waxman, a recent hire at Wilmington, Del.'s Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling, managed to experience the anguish of failing the Delaware bar examination and the euphoria of passing it -- all within two days. Waxman had his results checked via the wrong secret number, and found he'd failed. But when the results were listed by name, he was on the pass list. Nerve-wracking, to be sure -- but all's well that ends well.

By Celia Cohen

3 minute read

January 30, 2001 | Law.com

Bayard Marin is growing muttonchops. Harvey B. Rubenstein is going for a full beard. Even former Delaware Governor Pierre S. du Pont has plans for sideburns. If this sounds so 19th century, it is. A slew of Wilmington, Del., lawyers have been recruited for a courtroom scene in a movie about Thomas Garrett, an abolitionist who helped nearly 3,000 slaves escape before the Civil War.

By Celia Cohen

5 minute read

October 05, 1999 | Law.com

Two special-education advocates whose lawyer-like activities confounded Delaware's legal traditions should be ordered to stop, according to the Board on the Unauthorized Practice of Law. The board found that Marilyn Arons, Ruth Watson and their Parent Information Center of New Jersey engaged in the unauthorized practice of law by appearing at state Education Department hearings. They had argued that a federal statute known as IDEA authorized them to do so. The Delaware Supreme Court will have the final say.

By Celia Cohen

4 minute read

February 08, 2000 | Law.com

In a victory for Delaware state's bankruptcy practice, the U.S. Senate approved an overhaul of the federal Bankruptcy Code last week without tacking on a provision that would have drained away from the state's Chapter 11 reorganizations that are a staple for the local bar. The bill now goes to a conference committee, where negotiators from the Senate and House will stitch together legislation from the versions passed by each chamber.

By Celia Cohen

5 minute read

April 11, 2000 | Law.com

The University of Delaware just hired its first law professor. No, the university is not starting a law school. It has no plans for a law school. It is starting the Corporate Governance Center, operating out of the College of Business and Economics, as a place for studying corporate organization.

By Celia Cohen

6 minute read

January 16, 2001 | Law.com

Delaware judges are in line for the heftiest salary increases of all the state's officials, based on recommendations of the 2001 Delaware Compensation Commission. Delaware's chief justice would be the highest paid Delaware official at $146,600. The improved compensation would lift the court above the 2000 annual starting salary for a first-year associate at the local office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

By Celia Cohen

7 minute read

April 05, 2000 | Law.com

In what the Delaware Supreme Court hopes to make an annual event, the justices for the first time will leave their customary courtrooms to hear oral arguments at the Widener University School of Law. The five members of the court are scheduled to sit en banc next Tuesday, April 4, on the Delaware campus, to consider three appeals. This modern edition of judicial circuit riding is not without purpose. It will "help to build trust and confidence in the court system," Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey said.

By Celia Cohen

5 minute read

February 14, 2001 | Law.com

"America is still two nations -- one black, one white, separate and unequal," said University of Delaware law professor Leland Ware. In a speech last Thursday, Ware lambasted Delaware's Neighborhood Schools Act. While legislators say it is intended to let students attend schools close to home, Ware warned it could lead to resegregation if a Wilmington-only school district is created.

By Celia Cohen

3 minute read