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Boies Schiller Fires Back in Lehman-Barclays Dispute
Barclays' lawyers at Boies Schiller & Flexner made a hefty filing Friday in an effort to convince a judge to dismiss a suit arguing Barclays got a $5 billion sweetheart deal when it purchased Lehman Brothers' North American assets at the height of the financial crisis. The thousands of pages filed provide a fascinating glimpse into the chaos of September 2008.Justices Will Next Hear Cases on Guantanamo, Tribunals
In the coming weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether private parties can, under federal environmental laws, challenge a presidential foreign-policy action implemented through a federal agency's regulations, and whether a defendant who says he was not properly instructed by a judge before pleading guilty as part of a plea agreement must show that he would have denied guilt if he had been properly instructed.GE Overhauls Outside Counsel Roster
Just two years after some 200 law firms endured the ultimate test of strength and patience for a shot at one of the 140 coveted preferred provider positions at General Electric Company, the largest legal department in the world announced yet another outside counsel shake-up yesterday.
In-House Counsel Anxiously Await the Verdict on Andersen's Paper Jam
Abstract for Cover Story: The wacky employment case survey for 2004 has a distinctly international flavor. In an increasingly global economy, multinational corporations likely will face even more bizarre developments in the employment law area.Midsized Law Firms Go for Big Changes
Even as the number of large firms continues to multiply and as rumblings grow louder of yet another first-year associate salary raise among the profession's giants, smaller firms may well lie at the forefront of big changes in the profession.
Midsize Law Firms Go for Big Changes
In recent weeks, some midsize firms have implemented drastic reductions to their billable-hour requirements for first-year associates in order to enhance training and to appease clients who are resistant to paying for new lawyers' starts and stumbles. Reducing billable-hour requirements has been discussed at Cincinnati's Dinsmore & Shohl, says Susan Zaunbrecher, head of the corporate department, though she says completely eliminating billable hours is counterintuitive to the business of running a law firm.
New FDA Rule's Preamble Stirs Up Bar on Both Sides
The Food and Drug Administration may only be blowing smoke by prefacing a new drug-labeling rule with a purported pre-emption of state court suits against drug makers, but it's gotten some lawyers hopped up and others steamed -- because the preamble was not included in the proposed rule as published for comment. After the final rule was published on Jan. 18, plaintiffs lawyers excoriated the FDA for exceeding its authority, while drug makers' lawyers saw the preamble as a possible defense bolster.Trending Stories
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