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February 08, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Porn victims demanding restitution

When a registered nurse named Michael Monzel pleaded guilty in 2009 to possession and distribution of more than 800 images of child pornography, his legal woes were far from over.More than a year later, prosecutors, defense lawyers and attorneys for a victim whose image was included in the seized cache of illicit photos are quarreling over how much Monzel should pay in restitution - and whether he should have to pay at all.
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March 03, 2000 | Law.com

Lawyer Teaches from Kingston to Manhattan

Jay Sullivan left the practice of law in 1998 to join the communications consulting firm Exec/Comm, where his clients include law firms like Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells. "It's gotten me back to helping people in a much more hands-on way," Sullivan said.
7 minute read
April 29, 2010 | National Law Journal

The law prof behind the Arizona immigration law

As the Justice Department and others weigh challenging Arizona's controversial new immigration law, the Missouri law professor who helped to draft it is preparing to defend it. In addition to teaching law, Kris Kobach has developed a busy side career representing local governments in their efforts to attack illegal immigration. Kobach spoke to the NLJ about the Arizona law and his role in it.
8 minute read
November 30, 2005 | Law.com

Are Arbitration Agreements in Job Applications Enforceable?

With increasing frequency, employers in many industries are embracing the use of arbitration as the exclusive dispute resolution mechanism with their employees. Two recent cases addressed the enforceability of arbitration agreements contained in job applications -- and came to opposite conclusions. Jeffrey S. Klein and Nicholas J. Pappas, partners at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, discuss those cases and their significance for employers who might be thinking of using such clauses.
12 minute read
July 07, 2000 | Law.com

The Gnutella Bomb

When programmers at Nullsoft rolled out a trojan horse in early March and unleashed the digital file-sharing program Gnutella, they took corporate brass at parent company America Online by surprise. But they had to immediately see the threat to AOL's critical acquisition target, the content-creation empire of Time Warner.
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March 04, 2005 | Law.com

Silica Plaintiffs Suffer Setbacks

Silica plaintiffs have suffered a series of setbacks that, defense lawyers assert, have not only changed the landscape for that tort, but may have broad ramifications for other mass torts. Over the past four months, a half-dozen doctors who examined the X-rays of thousands of plaintiffs backed off from their findings. Defense lawyers called some of the claims these doctors signed off on "fraudulent," and so did a federal judge presiding over the silica multidistrict litigation in Texas.
10 minute read
January 27, 2006 | Law.com

Baggage Check: Next Trial True Test for Enron Task Force

When Enron Task Force prosecutors enter U.S. District Judge Sim Lake's courtroom in Houston on Monday for the long-awaited trial of former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay and former Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling, the government lawyers will be toting baggage. In the literal sense, the big criminal trial is document-intensive. In the figurative sense, government lawyers have stumbled more than once in their four-year pursuit of Enron employees, and that track record follows them into the courtroom.
12 minute read
July 06, 1999 | Law.com

Efforts to Overturn Asbestos Settlement Pay Off

Two down, one to go for Dallas' Fred Baron in U.S. Supreme Court challenges. He won Amchem in 1997 and Ortiz on June 23. "We were just tickled," Baron says of the court's decision in Ortiz to overturn a $1.5 billion asbestos class action settlement on Seventh Amendment grounds, among others. Now, he's hoping the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will reject the class action settlement in Lillian Hayden v. Atochem North America, a groundwater contamination case.
7 minute read
June 21, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Parties Settle for $1.3 Mil. in 'Wrong Site' Surgery Case

The parties in a medical malpractice case involving a man who had the wrong section of his colon removed during surgery have resolved the matter for $1.3 million, The Legal has learned.
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