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April 01, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

High Stakes, Huge Money

Our roundup of the top ten results from last year's IP litigation docket.
9 minute read
September 21, 1999 | Law.com

Scraping By in Georgia

Drew Pope might as well have been handed a 30-year mortgage along with his law school diploma in May. An assistant district attorney in Valdosta, Ga., Pope has $80,000 in law school loans - more than double his annual salary of $34,044. New attorneys who borrow to finance their legal education often start at salaries below what they owe, studies show. So instead of graduating into financial glory, many young lawyers find they're in hock.
13 minute read
July 28, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Travel Daze

Whether the destination is San Diego or Sheboygan, keep in mind that it's a business trip; you'll be dealing with clients, opposing parties and their counsel, maybe even comrades from your firm's branch office whom you want to impress.
15 minute read
October 24, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Bride plays second fiddle to sister

In Jonathan Demme's impressive new film, "Rachel Getting Married," it may be Rachel Rosemarie DeWitt who's getting married, but her sister Kym Anne Hathaway is getting all the attention.That's because she's had so much practice. A recovering addict released from rehab so she can attend the nuptials, Kym is a drama queen who can turn a wedding toast into an excruciating self-centered confessional.
5 minute read
March 19, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Opinions Approved for Publication

State and federal court cases approved for publication.
8 minute read
January 21, 2003 | National Law Journal

Women Threaten Nudity?

In Nigeria, wives and mothers hold men hostage by not taking their clothes off.
7 minute read
August 13, 2007 | Law.com

ConAgra Faces 39 Suits Over Bad Peanut Butter

In February, ConAgra Foods recalled Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter produced at a Georgia manufacturing plant due to salmonella contamination cases. Now, 39 food-poisoning suits involving dozens of litigants have mushroomed into multidistrict litigation in Atlanta federal court. Three different plaintiffs attorneys are handling the suits, including William D. Marler, whose firm will use a two-pronged offense with a potential class action and individual suits for more seriously stricken plaintiffs.
8 minute read
April 07, 2003 | National Law Journal

If This Land Could Talk

The Department of Homeland Security has chosen to put its headquarters on a parcel of land with a checkered past for securing the homeland. Hopefully, its tarnished history won't rub off on the new occupants.The property was once part of a 250-acre estate, Grassland. At the outbreak of the Civil War, it was owned by Hamilton Loughborough, a Washington lawyer whose loyalties could best be termed divided.
11 minute read
December 26, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Environmental Law

Stephen L. Kass and Jean M. McCarroll, partners at Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, write that on Dec. 16, a coalition of 30 environmental organizations, most of which rarely work together, submitted to President-elect Barack Obama a report proposing a comprehensive environmental agenda for the new U.S. administration, including specific legislative recommendations and budgetary estimates and proposed first-100-day actions for the Council on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Science and Technology, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the departments of Defense, Agriculture, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Interior, Justice, State, Transportation and Treasury.
15 minute read
December 12, 2005 | National Law Journal

Congress tackles vaccine liability

Fear of lawsuits, hostility toward trial lawyers, short-sightedness and pandering to special interests are behind a Republican-led effort to enact quickly unprecedented vaccine liability protection for drug manufacturers and sellers with little or no compensation for injured victims in the event of a pandemic flu outbreak, say a host of health, consumer, union and other groups.
9 minute read

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