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April 03, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

The Perils of State Human Rights Litigation

Although Shell's counsel are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm the Second Circuit's conclusion in Kiobel that corporations can't be held liable under the the Alien Tort Statute, they stress that corporations can still be sued under state law. What they don't stress is that, when those state claims arrive, the defense will try to eviscerate them.
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March 28, 2013 | Law.com

Study: One in 10 federal judges took trips on other people's dime

The Center for Public Integrity dug through disclosure forms judges filed during the past 4 1/2 years and found that 185 federal district and appeals court judges — 11 percent of federal judges — reported attending at least one seminar at which foundations or corporations paid for air fare, hotel stays and meals.
5 minute read
April 16, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Will Global Warming Become the Next Mass Tort?

The recent 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, once again focused the world's attention on the issue of global warming. But far from Copenhagen, the issue of whether global warming will become the next mass tort is playing out in courtrooms across America.
7 minute read
February 09, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Cyberbullying and Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

Andrew S. Kaufman, a partner at Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan, and Betsy D. Baydala, an associate at the firm, write that unless and until the legislature addresses tortious cyberbullying directly and provides for a private right of action, it would appear that the heretofore rarely invoked tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress will likely be employed.
11 minute read
August 21, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Gaming skills determine your fate

8 minute read
February 01, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Just Made Partner? Watch Your Behavior

Lawrence R. Sandak, a partner at Proskauer Rose, and Keisha-Ann G. Gray, a senior counsel with the firm, write that the same jokes, banter and remarks that offended no one when made by an associate unfortunately can be taken as offensive or even harassing by those who, due to the associate's promotion, no longer consider the newly elevated partner as "one of them." New partners should exercise their authority with respect, and consider the impact of their new title on their behaviors and workplace interactions. In this way, they can best enjoy the benefits of their promotion without unwittingly becoming susceptible to harassment claims.
12 minute read
August 25, 2000 | Law.com

The Great Migration

Many lawyers who until very recently clung to tradition -- one firm for life -- are surprising themselves by taking the plunge. There's usually no one reason partners move: to take on a leadership role, better serve clients, develop a niche for a new firm, or shed the animosities or bureaucracy of an old one. The American Lawyer profiles three partners who moved midcareer.
21 minute read
January 27, 2006 | Law.com

Are Punitive Damage Awards Too High?

Are juries' outsize punitive damage awards a sign that the system needs fixing, or are they less meaningful aberrations? Two widely respected Ivy League academics have spent years crunching the numbers and producing the gold standard of empirical analysis. So why do they come to wildly clashing conclusions? Cutting through their complex models and statistical techniques, the answer turns out to be astonishingly simple: They focus on different pieces of the same picture.
11 minute read
February 01, 2012 | National Law Journal

Roberts uses a baseball story to illustrate ethics issues

To spice up his latest annual report on the final day of 2011, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. did what after-dinner speakers have done for years: He started off with a story about baseball.
5 minute read
January 05, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Former Attorney General Griffin Bell dead at 90

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