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July 21, 2005 |

PoGo Aiming to Capitalize on White-Collar Crime Boom

Meredith [email protected] WorldCom's Bernard Ebbers heads to prison-and former HealthSouth chief Richard M. Scrushy enjoys his recent acquittal-Powell Goldstein is capitalizing on the federal government's increased emphasis on corporate fraud prosecutions by forming a special matters and investigations group.
8 minute read
January 11, 2013 |

Daily Decision Service Alert: Vol. 22, No. 8 – January 11, 2013

Daily decision alert.
12 minute read
April 23, 2008 |

Language, culture barriers don't hinder TBS Latin America GC

William M. Muller has earned degrees from top universities and worked with New York law firms and as in-house counsel for one of the wealthiest families in American history, but for his current GC role, he needed one more credential. That one he learned on the job.Spanish.After a dozen years with Turner Broadcasting System Latin America Inc.
5 minute read
June 18, 2012 |

Cleaning Up City Waterways

In his Municipal Law column, Jeffrey D. Friedlander, first assistant corporation counsel of the City of New York, writes that the Law Department's Environmental Law Division, together with technical and legal staff from the DEP, the Mayor's Office of Environmental Remediation and outside counsel, are working to develop strategies to ensure that the CERCLA cleanups at Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek will be protective of human health and the environment, cost-effective, and compliant with sound scientific and legal principles
11 minute read
July 15, 2008 |

PoGo's $2M punitive win to face challenge

A federal jury in Atlanta-sympathetic to a software firm that was unceremoniously tossed out of a national technology conference by the host firm-has hit the conference host with $260,925 in combined compensatory damages and $2.14 million in punitive damages for breach of contract and interfering with a contract.
5 minute read
May 05, 1999 |

Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

This article details the extent of the nation's sexual harassment problem and the effects of workplace sexual harassment on victims, other employees, and employers, and sets forth practical guidance on how to prohibit, prevent and eradicate sexually harassing behavior.
16 minute read
December 10, 2012 |

Expert Disclosure in New York: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Barbara A. Lukeman, a partner with Nixon Peabody, and Thomas M. Mealiffe, an associate at the firm, write: Unlike its federal counterpart, New York's expert disclosure rule is marked by inefficiency, ambiguity, and inconsistency. These deficiencies have prompted the NYSBA to propose a set of voluntary rules to bolster the current rules for cases before the Commercial Division, but a large portion of litigants outside of the Commercial Division must still contend with insufficient expert disclosure and a legal morass created by unpredictable rulings from each of the four appellate departments.
12 minute read
February 09, 2012 |

What Were They Thinking?

Passed by the first Congress in 1789 to combat, among others, acts of piracy on the high-seas, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, grants federal district courts jurisdiction over "any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States."
7 minute read
April 26, 2004 |

On the Move

A weekly report of lawyer moves and law firm changes. Keep abreast of where movers and shakers are going and what they're doing.
4 minute read
July 07, 2008 |

Despite disputes on Gitmo and guns, justices were mostly in tune

The headline Supreme Court decisions came fast and sometimes furious in June: Gitmo Detainees Get Habeas No Death Penalty for Child Rapists Exxon Valdez Award Slashed And on its final day in session, June 26, the biggest headline yet: An Individual Right to Bear ArmsAll four produced sharp splits three were 5-4, and Exxon was 5-3 because of Justice Samuel Alito Jr.
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