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'Excruciatingly Slow' Testimony Results in Added Discovery
A state appeals court in Manhattan has ruled that plaintiffs seeking to enforce a $116 million terrorism verdict are entitled to further deposition of the Palestinian Authority's New York lawyer, whose "excruciatingly slow" testimony apparently caused plaintiffs to run afoul of a previous discovery deadline.When a Client Post-Trial Says: 'I Perjured Myself'
In his Ethics and Criminal Practice column, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan's Joel Cohen and James L. Bernard write that since the adoption of the Rules of Professional Conduct in New York, an attorney's duty to the court trumps the duty of confidentiality. A recent ethics opinion addresses some key aspects of the new rule that are otherwise somewhat unclear.The Am Law 100: A Work in Progress
Coverage of 2008 financials.California Firms Not Matching New York Pay
Well, some firms have � but it's looking like more firms are preferring more modest pay hikes than the recent New York base of $160,000. At least until the pressure becomes unbearable.When a Client Slips Between the Cracks
Imagine this: The banquet hall owner calls an hour before an elaborate wedding reception for 200 guests. He says that he can't go forward, period. No explanation, no referral to an alternative in a position to proceed. Or the plumber you hired to replace the pipes in your only working bathroom suddenly remembers, midway through the job, that his vacation reservations require him to fly tonight. He simply leaves, everything askew.Circuit Insists Class Action Waiver in Amex Contracts Are Invalid
The circuit was told last year by the U.S. Supreme Court to take a second look at a 2009 circuit decision finding the arbitration clause voided by the Federal Arbitration Act. But on remand yesterday, the judges said a 2010 Supreme Court ruling had not changed their analysis and that "the cost of plaintiffs individually arbitrating their dispute with AMEX would be prohibitive, effectively depriving plaintiffs of the statutory protections of the antitrust laws."Trending Stories
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