Staff Reporter

March 07, 2008 | National Law Journal

Timothy J. Mayopoulos, executive vice president and general counsel at Bank of America Corporation, will chair The National Legal Aid & Defender Association's Corporate Advisory Committee. The NLADA Corporate Advisory Committee was founded in 1992 to institute corporate America's commitment to equal justice and explore ways in which the corporate sector can help ensure the availability of legal representation to low-income people.

By Vesna Jaksic / Staff Reporter

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June 04, 2008 | National Law Journal

Ruden McClosky, a 175-lawyer Florida firm, is acquiring an eight-lawyer Palm Beach County boutique firm, Elk Christu & Bakst. Elk Christu has offices in Boca Raton and West Palm Beach. The acquisition is a sign that Ruden is prospering, even in these tough economic times, said Ruden's managing partner Carl Schuster.

By Julie Kay / Staff reporter

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September 26, 2008 | National Law Journal

The ability of unions to enforce contract terms that allow review of company outsourcing decisions suffered a blow in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a hard fought legal battle that included three arbitrations and three appeals. A dispute between Ameritech Corp. and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 21, in Illinois, centers on a contract provision that allowed the union to review any contracting out of company work that would cause layoffs or part-time work or prevent rehiring of employees with seniority. In addition, some of those potentially lost, outsourced jobs could be allotted to union workers.

By Pamela A. MacLean / Staff Reporter

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March 27, 2008 | National Law Journal

Federal Trade Commission member William E. Kovacic, formerly a professor of government contracts law, will step up as the agency's new chair when the resignation of current chair, Deborah Platt Majoras, is effective March 30. Formerly a George Washington University School of Law professor, Kovacic left his teaching position to join the federal agency as a commissioner in January 2006.

By Marcia Coyle / Staff reporter

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February 28, 2007 | National Law Journal

The Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers recommended disbarment for three attorneys involved in a clandestine investigation of a judge's possible bias, which involved setting up fake job interviews to question the judge's former clerk.

By Sheri Qualters / Staff reporter

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September 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

Thirty-eight states have received grades below C for their lawyer-client fee-dispute programs, including eight incompletes and three failing grades, according to a new report.

By Vesna Jaksic / Staff reporter

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July 05, 2007 | National Law Journal

Robert Nicholson, former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, switched to private practice at the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., office of Broad and Cassel. He joins the office's white collar criminal and civil fraud defense and health law practice groups.

By Stacey Laskin/Staff reporter

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October 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

Former U.S. Department of Justice deputy assistant attorney general Gerald F. Masoudi was appointed chief counsel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

By Sheri Qualters / Staff reporter

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April 25, 2008 | National Law Journal

Opening arguments got underway in Detroit Thursday in the trial of flamboyant trial attorney Geoffrey Fieger, charged with funneling $127,000 in illegal contributions to John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign. Heading up Fieger's defense is the legendary Gerry Spence, who won acquittals of white supremacists in the 1992 shootout with federal agents at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

By Tresa Baldas / Staff reporter

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March 07, 2008 | National Law Journal

The lesson of a fight between law firms over how to divvy up $10 million in attorney fees in an Arizona environmental tort case is "don't make a contract like this one," according to Neil McCabe of Houston's John M. O'Quinn law firm. The 9th Circuit resolved contract terms between O'Quinn's firm and Brown & Bain, a Phoenix firm that has since merged with Perkins Coie, by upholding the Brown firm's claims to fees in addition to its hourly charges before leaving the litigation.

By Pamela A. MacLean / Staff reporter

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