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Election Could Have Seismic Effect on Federal Courts
Republican presidents have appointed more than half of the current 179 federal appellate judges, but that could rise dramatically to 74 percent if Sen. John McCain wins the presidency -- or give Democrats a 56 percent majority in appointments if Sen. Barack Obama prevails, according to a Brookings Institution report issued on Wednesday. The report predicts that in four years of an Obama presidency, his appointments could shift Republican dominance on 10 of 11 circuits.The Art of Law Office Survival
Is the colleague on the other side of the partition driving you crazy -- playing his business and personal voicemail back on his speaker phone, loudly tapping his pen and generally being a pain? Should you confront him? It's a tricky situation, as are issues of "creative billing" and divulging information to partners ... when you know you should.View more book results for the query "New York University"
Are Connecticut's Federal Judges 'Soft on White-Collar Crime?'
The recent U.S. Sentencing Commission finding that federal judges in Connecticut depart from punishment guidelines more than in any state but Arizona raises issues of concern, say members of this state's bench and the bar. Most significantly it appears judges use the departures to give lesser sentences for white-collar crime than the national sentencing guidelines suggest, says U.S. Attorney Stephen C. Robinson.With a long-running securities fraud class action against Pfizer over the drugs Celebrex and Bextra finally lurching toward trial, both Pfizer's lawyers at Simpson Thacher and DLA and their opposing counsel at Grant & Eisenhofer have lost bids for adverse inference rulings based on alleged misconduct.
Morrison & Foerster Finds Conflict in SCO Patent Case
Illustrating the ease with which conflicts of interest can arise at a big firm, attorneys at Morrison & Foerster recently found themselves with clashing interests in the same trial, thanks to a third party, who neglected to disclose key information. San Francisco-based partners Adam Lewis and Michael Jacobs discovered the conflict when they realized that an objection filed on behalf of their client, Novell Inc., would delay a transaction in which the buyer was another MoFo client.Ex-IBM Privacy Officer on Preparing for the Future of Cybersecurity
Harriet Pearson, who was IBM's first chief privacy officer and now is a partner in Hogan Lovells's privacy and data security practice group, says general counsel have a key role to play in a company's cybersecurity.Trending Stories
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