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Leading conservative judge leaving for Boeing GC job
By Tony Mauro, Legal TimesAppeals Judge J. Michael Luttig, a Supreme Court contender and longtime fixture of the conservative legal landscape, made a sudden announcement Wednesday that he was leaving the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit immediately for the job of senior vice president and general counsel of the Boeing Co.Firms find rare growth area: debt
Unpaid debt is creating a boon for lawyers across the country, who are being inundated with calls for help from companies desperate to collect money owed to them.The work is going to debt collection law firms and law firms in general-and they are hearing a sense of desperation that wasn't there a few short months ago.Nahmias gets high-profile support for seat
As today's deadline approaches, the commission that will help the governor pick a replacement for Leah Ward Sears on the Supreme Court of Georgia has received the names of at least 33 lawyers and judges for its consideration.Correspondence flooding into the office of Michael J. Bowers, who chairs the Judicial Nominating Commission, includes a veritable campaign for David E.Sex.com hijacker pleads poverty after fleeing to Mexico
SAN JOSE, Calif. AP - A man who siphoned millions of dollars from a pornography Web site and fled to Mexico cried poor Monday and asked a judge to erase the $65 million he owes the rightful owner of Sex.com.Stephen Michael Cohen was released from prison in December so he could surrender assets to Gary Kremen, the online entrepreneur who registered the domain name in 1994.Investments in China start to pay off
WHEN TROUTMAN SANDERS announced last month that it would be the first Atlanta-based firm to open an office in China, it joined U.S. firms that made great strides there in 2006, with some saying their investments in China and other key foreign markets are starting to pay off. At Paul, Hastings, Janofsky Walker, which opened its first office in China five years ago, revenue there was up by 50 percent in 2006, to $53 million.Recovery loses speed as consumers turn cautious
WASHINGTON AP - The recovery lost momentum in the spring as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year and too weak to drive down unemployment.Consumers spent less, companies slowed their restocking of shelves and the nation's trade deficit dragged more on the economy in the April-to-June quarter.Prominent Arizona attorney killed in shooting rampage
The report of the shooting came in around dawn from a town in southwestern Arizona - the opening salvo in a rampage that left six people dead over the next six hours.The toll included the suspected gunman, 73-year-old Carey Hal Dyess, and the prominent Yuma attorney who represented his ex-wife in their divorce, Jerrold Shelley.It will take a Herculean effort to fix economy
The year-old crisis triggered by the subprime mortgage debacle has uncovered so many weaknesses in the U.S. financial system that it's going to be like cleaning the Augean stables to fix them. Using both brawn and cleverness, Hercules managed that task in a single day. It's more likely to take years to repair all the weaknesses in the U.Trending Stories
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