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October 12, 2000 | Law.com

HNBA Pursues Hispanic Supreme Court Appointment

Although at least 11 Hispanics have been named as judges in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, a Hispanic has yet to be named to the country's highest court -- an appointment many believe is long overdue. "The Supreme Court should reflect its citizenry," said Hispanic National Bar Association board member Lourdes Santiago. "Shame on the country if it doesn't happen." The HNBA wants to make sure it does.
4 minute read
May 01, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

State Bar of Texas Board Elects New Chairman

Beginning in June, Robert A. "Bob" Black, an attorney whose practice focuses on mediation, will take over as chairman of the State Bar of Texas board of directors, and a lawyer who advises the state's Office of the Attorney General on ethics matters will become the Bar's general counsel
5 minute read
August 03, 2000 | Law.com

Baker Dinged With $121M Punitives

A San Francisco jury on Wednesday awarded $121 million in punitive damages to 17 African-American employees of the maker of Wonder Bread and Twinkies for racial discrimination that denied them promotions, pay raises and even the use of certain bathrooms. The sanction follows a compensatory damages award of $11 million earlier this week.
4 minute read
June 08, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Gifts: Validity, Enforceability, Fodder for Litigation

In her Trusts and Estates Update, Ilene Sherwyn Cooper, a partner at Farrell Fritz, addresses decisions respecting inter vivos gift transactions, providing the practitioner with useful instruction as to their enforceability.
14 minute read
March 07, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

Kellogg Can't Grill Employee's Lawyer About Voluntariness of Signed Waiver

A company sued for wrongful termination can't depose the plaintiff's lawyer about an assertion that the plaintiff signed a waiver of claims under duress, a federal magistrate judge says.
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December 22, 2009 | Daily Report Online

State fights to investigate collection firm

Georgia consumer regulators are continuing their fight to get details about the debt-collection practices of Marietta firm Frederick J. Hanna Associates.The state is appealing a decision by a Cobb County judge last September that said efforts by the Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs to investigate complaints about Hanna's debt-collection practice violated the Georgia Constitution's principle of separation of powers.
6 minute read
January 03, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

Nuclear workers from Pa. plant eligible for compensation

After a yearslong fight, tens of thousands of workers at a former nuclear fuel processing plant in Armstrong County are now eligible for government aid for their illnesses.
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May 10, 2013 | Legaltech News

Product of the Week: Adobe LeanPrint

The Product of the Week is gleaned from industry trade news, events, and press releases received by Law Technology News. This week, a managed print system, Adobe LeanPrint, for small to midsize law firms.
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August 27, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Man Appeals $15M Verdict in Estate Fight With Church

Rachel Tobin [email protected] F. "Jack" Perry, the man slapped with a nearly $15 million jury verdict for mismanaging his brother's estate, is headed for the Georgia Court of Appeals. Two weeks ago, in Fulton County Probate Court, Senior Judge John S. Langford Jr. rejected Perry's motion for a new trial.
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December 01, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Selective Waiver

Peter K. Vigeland and Robert W. Trenchard, partners at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, and Daniel C. Richenthal and Michelle E. Kanter, associates at the firm, write that recently, there has been an effort by both the executive and the legislative branch to roll back the perceived "culture of waiver" that had evolved as a result of government policy and judicial decision. These efforts have resulted both in changes to executive branch policy in seeking waivers, and in the law of waiver itself in the form of Federal Rule of Evidence 502. And these changes in turn materially alter the calculus that counsel representing companies in these situations must go through in advising their clients.
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