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May 04, 2000 |

Part-time Work, Full-time Lives

In a profession that prizes workoholics, a handful of attorneys carve a comfy niche for themselves in customized work arrangements with their firms. Not surprisingly, a lot of them are working moms. How do the economics pan out for their firms, and can lawyers really free themselves from the "tyranny of the billable hour"?
9 minute read
May 24, 2004 |

David Boies Cleared by Florida Bar of Ethics Charge

The Florida Supreme Court has dismissed an ethics complaint against prominent Microsoft litigator David Boies, who was charged with violating Florida bar rules by paying more than $400,000 to help his law firm's chief financial officer pursue a contract dispute in Palm Beach County Circuit Court.
4 minute read
May 04, 1999 |

Sneak Attack

A California congressman slipped an anti-Delaware provision into a federal bankruptcy bill that would threaten Delaware's thriving bankruptcy practice by sharply paring away the corporate reorganizations that could be filed in the state. Delaware's influential congressional delegation is already riding to the rescue and expected to carry the day before the bill becomes law. The provision arose last month during the House Judiciary Committee's bill-drafting session on revising the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
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February 19, 2013 |

Same-Sex Marriage at the Supreme Court

The Roberts court's generally cautious approach raises doubt as to the breadth of the forthcoming opinion, explains Ben Feuer of the California Appellate Law Group.
11 minute read
April 12, 2010 |

Olson: Challenge to Proposition 8 Has Global Implications

According to Theodore Olson, the legal challenge to a California measure banning same-sex marriage he is leading with David Boies, a managing partner of Boies Schiller & Flexner, clearly has global implications. "What happens in this case won't just affect the people of California, it will affect the country. And what happens in the United States will affect the rest of the world."
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October 13, 2010 |

Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Steven Wax

Oregon Federal Public Defender Steven Wax faced a tough bench on Tuesday in his Supreme Court argument. But tough benches and tough cases are regular fare for this Brooklyn-born defense attorney.
5 minute read
May 04, 2000 |

Making Gains, But Still Far to Go

As recently as the 1970s, African-American lawyers were routinely mistaken for messengers by co-workers. Into the 1980s, women lawyers were asked to fetch coffee for male counterparts. The dozen or so minority and woman lawyers who were among the first to reach partnership status in Washington, D.C law firms all have stories like these to tell. Today, minorities account for 3.3 percent of partners in major firms in the District and women make up just over 15 percent of the city's partners.
10 minute read
June 17, 2005 |

Class Action Privilege Issues: Precertification Questionnaires

In most instances, the principles governing the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrines in ordinary litigation will apply in the class action context. However, there are some marked exceptions. In particular, privilege questions are complicated by whether class counsel obtained information prior to class certification. Linda S. Mullenix navigates privilege issues in relation to class action precertification questionnaires.
7 minute read
April 18, 2011 |

The 2012 APPELLATE HOT LIST

We asked our readers to nominate firms with at least one significant appellate win between May 2011 and May 2012 and that had an impressive track record overall. We supplemented the results with our own research to arrive at the list of 16 firms you'll find here.
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Former Dodgers Owner's Ex Loses Bid to Undo Settlement
Publication Date: 2013-09-11
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Jamie McCourt had claimed that her 2011 divorce agreement with Frank McCourt should be dismantled because her ex-husband fraudulently portrayed the value of the Dodgers at below $300 million. He sold the team last year for $2.15 billion.

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