Paul C Saunders

February 17, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Instead of calling it Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, Bob Haig, the editor-in-chief of this now 15 volume work, could just as easily have called it The Law: Everything You Need to Know. It is that comprehensive.

By Paul C. Saunders

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March 11, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Paul C. Saunders, of counsel at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, writes: Zealous advocacy seems to have disappeared. The word "zeal" appears nowhere in the new New York Rules of Professional Conduct. It was there when the proposed rules were drafted by the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Standards for Attorney Conduct; it was there when the proposed rules were adopted by the state bar in piecemeal fashion in 2006 and 2007; and it was there when the proposed rules were forwarded to the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals and the four presiding Appellate Division judges for their final review and approval. But when that approval came in mid-December 2008, the word "zeal" had disappeared.

By Paul C. Saunders

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