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January 27, 1999 | Law.com

At PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rules Made to Be Broken

Opponents of multidisciplinary practices claim MDPs will lower professional standards for lawyers. And at least one Big Five accounting firm seems bound and determined to prove its multidisciplinary practice has a considerably more casual attitude towards rules and regulations than most law firms do. George Kraw adds his two cents to the ongoing debate on MDPs.
5 minute read
March 23, 2009 | National Law Journal

9-0 decision makes sense

A 9-0 judgment in a case involving an icon of the "Culture Wars" — a Ten Commandments monument — what's going on here? In Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, the Supreme Court held that a city's display of a privately donated monument is "government speech," so that its decision to reject a proffered donation is not covered by the free speech clause. The near unanimity can be explained by two points: the complete impracticality of Summum's position, and its continued, unhampered right to speak in the park at issue.
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May 07, 2009 | Daily Report Online

In D.C., big firms slash associate salaries

Washington law firms are cutting costs anywhere they can, and associate pay is no longer an exception.Seven Washington offices have slashed salaries. Others-including D.C. stalwarts like Crowell Moring, Hogan Hartson, and Wiley Rein-are cutting pay for associates who don't hit their billable hour goals.
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March 23, 2007 | National Law Journal

Leader of Weil's National Appellate Practice Leaves for Boutique

Gregory S. Coleman, head of Weil, Gotshal & Manges' national appellate litigation practice, has left the firm's Austin, Texas, office to join 23-lawyer litigation boutique Yetter & Warden. Coleman joined Weil Gotshal's Austin office in 2001. Before that, he was Texas' first solicitor general, a post he assumed in 1999 after having been an associate at Weil Gotshal in Houston. He said that during the time he led the national appellate practice, he built the group to about 10 full-time appellate lawyers.
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October 02, 2003 | Law.com

Supreme Court Vacates Classwide Awards

In Green Tree Fin. Corp. v. Bazzle, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned two multimillion-dollar classwide awards, holding that where a mandatory arbitration agreement is silent as to class claims, it is for the arbitrator, not a court, to decide whether the agreement permits arbitration of class claims. In light of Bazzle, parties drafting mandatory agreements should carefully consider whether to include an express prohibition on arbitration of class claims.
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September 25, 2007 | Law.com

Attorney Leaves Big Tobacco Behind to Represent the Richest Man in the World

A few years ago, Steven Selsberg, a partner in Mayer Brown in Houston, thought he would make a smoking-hot career out of tobacco litigation, but today Selsberg is the go-to litigation lawyer in the United States for the business empire of Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican billionaire who may be the richest man in the world. When Selsberg isn't doing work for Slim or his companies, he handles litigation for other clients from Mexico he obtained through Slim or through other Mexican connections.
13 minute read
September 24, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Slim Chance: Attorney Leaves Big Tobacco Behind To Represent the Richest Man in the World

A few years ago, Steven R. Selsberg, a partner in Mayer Brown in Houston, thought he would make a smoking-hot career out of tobacco litigation, but today Selsberg is the go-to litigation lawyer in the United States for the business empire of Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican billionaire who may be the richest man in the world.
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March 15, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Fifty Years Ago Today, 'Gideon' Affirmed a Right to Counsel

Zuckerman Spaeder partner Paul Shechtman describes the circumstances and personalities behind what is perhaps the most famous decision in the history of American criminal procedure.
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June 17, 1999 | Law.com

Endangered Species?

Most mid-size firm managers acknowledge that the legal world has become a strange, scary place. They are too small to compete head-to-head with the full-service mega-firms, but much more expensive to run than a boutique. Their problems are numerous and growing: the shrinking client base, a glut of partners, firms that are poorly leveraged, and a reluctance to aggressively weed out lawyers who don't produce.
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July 12, 2004 | National Law Journal

The 'Empagran' Decision

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that the Sherman Antitrust Act could not be used by foreign purchasers to police anticompetitive actions when the plaintiff's actions were wholly foreign. The decision restricts the ability of foreign plaintiffs to bring private treble-damages actions under U.S. antitrust law.
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