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April 18, 2003 | Law.com

Disabled Are Suing States on Voting

William Poole Jr., who is blind, is fighting for his right to cast a secret ballot. Since most of the voting machines in Maryland are inaccessible to the visually impaired, he has always needed help in order to vote. Now he's at the forefront of a movement that's spread to several other states: filing federal class actions to force state and local election officials to provide voting devices that can be used by the disabled.
4 minute read
April 05, 2010 | National Law Journal

Passing score

Profile of Neil Lane, senior vice president and general counsel of The College Entrance Examination Board.
5 minute read
December 14, 2012 | The Recorder

On the Move

A weekly report of lawyer moves and law firm changes. Keep abreast of where movers and shakers are going and what they're doing.
4 minute read
November 02, 1999 | Law.com

Bank Bar Is Bullish on Reform

For the past decade, banking regulation lawyers have made a living chipping away at the restrictions imposed by the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. Now that Congress has passed a financial services modernization bill tearing down the barriers between the banking, insurance, and securities industries established by the Depression Era law, banking attorneys are hoping for an avalanche of work.
7 minute read
October 07, 2009 | Law.com

Star Turn for Some Hollywood Newcomers

When Summit Entertainment needed an attorney to help promote its new vampire movie, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," general counsel David Friedman turned to an old colleague from his former Paramount Pictures job. That lawyer, Nancy Derwin-Weiss, had moved to Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon and helped it break through the barriers that have frustrated more than one East Coast firm's ambition to go Hollywood. And at least three other firms from outside California are using similar tactics to get into entertainment law.
10 minute read
July 13, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Governance Lapses At PSU Highlighted In Internal Inquiry

Where did governance at Penn State go wrong? As top university officials concealed information about child abuse committed by Jerry Sandusky, the Board of Trustees failed on many levels, according to a report released Thursday.
7 minute read
August 01, 2012 | Legaltech News

DEA, VA Bought Spy Software, Raising Whistleblowers' Concerns

The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Drug Enforcement Administration are under fire for purchasing spy software from the same company that supplied a computer surveillance program to the FDA.
9 minute read
October 03, 2006 | Law.com

Former Shaw Pittman Partners Press Complaint Against Merged Firm

Last week six former Shaw Pittman partners who left the firm at the time of its merger with Pillsbury Winthrop filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit against the merged entity, claiming the firm owes them millions in unreturned capital contributions and for work they did in the first quarter of 2005. Now partners at Morrison & Foerster, the six have asked a Virginia judge to compel arbitration, citing clauses in the partnership agreement in effect when the partners left the firm.
2 minute read
March 09, 2007 | Law.com

'Do-Not-Mail' Bills Deliver Dissent

Bills to stop the sending of unwanted mail, which are modeled after the do-not-call phone registries, have been introduced in nearly a dozen states, raising legal questions about states' ability to regulate the U.S. Postal Service. Attorney Jerry Cerasale of the Direct Marketing Association, which is part of a larger coalition fighting the proposed measures, says the legislation would "dramatically hurt American commerce as the mail affects $900 billion a year in commerce and 9 million jobs."
4 minute read
May 07, 2012 | National Law Journal

INADMISSIBLE

Janis, Schuelke & Wechsler dissolve; Andy Pettitte's sinker testimony; new award named for Nathan Neal; mock trial agrees the fraud of men was ever so; libertarian hopes to make a Mark; the least popular Supreme Court in 25 years; and Harry Thomas Jr.'s lost moral compass in this week's column.
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