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Must You Believe Your Client's Testimony?
Joel Cohen, a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School, writes that clearly, a lawyer cannot allow a client to present testimony that is inconsistent with what the client has privately admitted. But when the client tells his lawyer the same story he proposes to testify to, one that is more or less defensible but one that the lawyer "just knows" is wrong, are that lawyer's hands tied?McKee Nelson: The Richest Guys in Town
After almost a decade of exponential growth, Washington, D.C.-based McKee Nelson is a high-end tax and capital markets outfit targeted at Wall Street. While its competition works to get bigger, the 210-lawyer McKee Nelson has been able to do what most D.C. firms have not: build a New York outpost that is the equal of, if not superior to, the home office. "We're going to be the best at what we do, and we're not going to allow practices to cannibalize each other," says managing partner William Nelson.Not Just Another Dead IP Boutique
How an expensive office lease helped kill New York's venerable Darby & Darby.?By Nate RaymondThe Ethics Of Denouncing the Bench
In his Ethics and Criminal Practice column, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan partner Joel Cohen asks: What exactly are the ethics of an attorney challenging a judge or a court, either in the courtroom or in the media outside court, when a decision or pattern of rulings goes against the lawyer, whether the lawyer is merely acting out of pure pique or for some other ulterior purpose?Citigroup Attorneys Lend a Helping Hand to Katrina Victims
Since January, about 25 of Citigroup's roughly 500 U.S.-based attorneys, including associate GC David Goldberg, have logged 350 hours on Hurricane Katrina-related pro bono work. The work stems from GC Michael Helfer's goal of a socially conscious legal department. Citigroup is one of few companies to undertake a major pro bono effort in the Gulf Coast region, in part because of a lack of infrastructure. In the end, Goldberg and other attorneys literally knocked on doors to find people who needed help.In Praise of General Practitioners
A general practitioner is more than just a title; it is a higher elevation of being a lawyer; it describes someone willing to accept the challenge to learn and apply many areas of law in order to provide better counseling and lawyering to clients.Court Rules Attorney Fees Are Admissible in Tyco Battle
The latest salvo in the Tyco International litigation involves former Tyco director Frank Walsh Jr. and a $20 million "finder's fee" former CEO Dennis Kozlowski awarded him in connection with Tyco's 2001 acquisition of CIT Group. A New York federal judge has ruled that Tyco can admit evidence relating to $53,000 in attorney fees the company paid to Boies Schiller & Flexner for its internal investigation of the finder's fee, which Walsh received without board approval.Trending Stories
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