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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.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.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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11th Circuit: Nancy Grace 'Played Fast and Loose' With Ethics
Nancy Grace, the host of a self-titled legal show on CNN Headline News, "played fast and loose" with her ethical duties as a Georgia prosecutor in 1990, the 11th Circuit has ruled. However, Monday's decision upheld a triple murder conviction won by Grace, explaining that her failure to disclose to the defendant's lawyer information about other possible suspects did not change the result of the trial. The ruling marks the third time appellate courts have admonished Grace for her conduct as a prosecutor.Proposed $1.6 Billion Deal Has Its Critics
Potential class members in the sudden acceleration litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. have filed objections to the proposed settlement reached on behalf of consumers asserting claims for economic damages.Swift Boats, Media Bias and the FCC's Fairness Doctrine
Amid the furor over the Sinclair Broadcast Group's plan to air a blatantly partisan documentary attack on John Kerry just before the presidential election, little attention was paid to the tough line-drawing of deciding whether Sinclair would, in fact, have broken the law. Intriguing questions remain about how the law should respond as standards for investigative journalism decline in our sound-bite culture, and as ever larger media companies wield their power to shape the information we receive.'Iqbal' Fails to Find Fan Base at House Judiciary Committee Hearing
The House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday on the outsize effect the U.S. Supreme Court's Ashcroft v. Iqbal ruling has had on civil litigation. The ruling, which requires plaintiffs to plead specific factual allegations in their complaints, has already been cited in almost 3,000 lower court rulings in just five months on the books. Only one witness, former DOJ Civil Division Assistant AG Gregory Katsas, defended the ruling as "consistent with the vast bulk of prior precedent."Trending Stories
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