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Top 3 TARP banks to dole out $29B in bonuses
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase Co.'s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, are set to pay record bonuses this year. The firms-the three biggest banks to exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program-will hand out $29.7 billion in bonuses, according to analysts' estimates.Give Up Your Fears Of E-Discovery
I speak on electronic data discovery four to five times per year. It never fails that most of the presenters at these events preach fear as the motivation for learning about e-discovery.Justice Alito's Finances Explain His Recusals
Justice Samuel Alito bowed out of roughly six dozen matters that came before the Supreme Court in the past 10 months with no explanation. Alito's latest report of his finances clears up the mystery.Justices in no hurry to bolt from bench
At her law clerks' reunion last June, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put the word out in no uncertain terms."If anyone asks you, 'When is she retiring'?" Ginsburg said, according to several who were there, "tell them I have a great role model in Justice John Paul Stevens, who is going strong at age 88.Recount likely in Fulton Superior race
The race for an open seat on the Fulton County Superior Court was headed for a runoff Wednesday, although there remained a question over who would face the top vote-getter, Kelly Amanda Lee.At midday, the Secretary of State's office reported that Shelitha Renee Robertson was in second place, with 40,042 votes and 22.1 percent, and Clarence R.Deal Watch: Corporate law firms: Fed cuts won't spur work
Atlanta corporate lawyers said they weren't expecting more work to come from the Federal Reserve's biggest interest-rate cut in more than 20 years.On Monday night the Fed lowered its benchmark interest rate to 3.5 percent from 4.25 percent in response to stock markets' dropping around the world on fears the U.S.India, China try to prevent spread of crisis
India and China are accelerating efforts to prop up growth as a global slump threatens the world's fastest-expanding major economies. The Reserve Bank of India on Nov. 1 lowered its benchmark interest rate for the second time in two weeks, and for the first time in 11 years reduced the amount of money lenders are required to keep in government bonds.Democrats push for probe into Bush policies
WASHINGTON AP - President Barack Obama has been reluctant to probe Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies, but his Democratic allies aren't likely to let the matters rest."I've always preferred my idea of a commission of inquiry to look at all these issues," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.In The Trenches: Employment litigators are still in demand
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