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January 18, 2006 |

Oregon Suicide Law Is Upheld by High Court

In a ruling that re-energizes the debate over federalism and the right to die, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said the federal Controlled Substances Act does not give the Bush administration the authority to thwart Oregon's law allowing physician-assisted suicide. The high court upheld the 9th Circuit -- itself a notable event -- in a ruling written by Justice Anthony Kennedy and featuring Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.'s first dissent.
4 minute read
November 30, 2007 |

GOP Spying Case Heads to Supreme Court

In 1998, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, filed what is believed to be the first lawsuit against a fellow member of Congress. The target was Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., who during the previous year had shared with reporters a tape of an embarrassing phone call involving Republican Party leaders originally recorded by a Florida couple using a police scanner from RadioShack. Now, more than a decade later, the Supreme Court justices will decide whether to settle the matter once and for all.
6 minute read
October 26, 2007 |

Chevron Wants Human Rights Case Review

The legal fights over holding multinational corporations liable for aiding foreign governments in alleged international human rights violations may come to a head in the 9th Circuit. Chevron has asked a federal judge in San Francisco to reconsider her decision that Nigerian villagers can take Chevron to trial over its alleged role in aiding the Nigerian military in attacks that killed and wounded protesters at oil facilities. The judge had relied heavily on a 9th Circuit opinion that has been withdrawn.
3 minute read
September 01, 2009 |

Cooley Brings On IP Trio From White & Case

After losing several key partners recently, Cooley is picking up IP litigators Heidi Keefe, Mark Weinstein and Mark Lambert from White & Case. The three, who represent clients like Facebook, Cisco Systems and HTC in patent cases, said Cooley was appealing because of its local connections with tech companies. "There are practices that benefit from the global platform; for others, it is more important to have a strong local practice, and IP litigation is more in that category," said Weinstein.
3 minute read
August 25, 2004 |

Biotech Boom Creating Demand for Specialty Lawyers

The increasing use of genetics in everything from investigating crimes to improving food is keeping biotech lawyers busy. "Governments and industries are really seeing [biotechnology] as a major economic force of the future, and where business goes, law goes," said Arizona State law professor, Gary Marchant. There's only one problem: Scientific discoveries are invading the legal world so quickly there aren't enough biotech attorneys to handle the workload.
8 minute read
February 26, 2007 |

Finnegan Struggles With Growing Pains

Until recently, the intellectual property firm Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner was the epitome of the old guard, with an all-partners-are-equal mentality that can still be found at firms like Covington & Burling, Arnold & Porter and a few large New York firms. Now, Finnegan is dealing with the reality that getting bigger typically leads to creating a new class structure -- or at least thinking about doing so. It's a crossroads moment that more and more law firms are facing.
7 minute read
December 07, 2007 |

Southern Co. Wants More From Witness Who Knew Less

After two-plus years of fighting a $2 billion case between Southern Co. and representatives of former subsidiary Mirant, lawyers are acting a tad testy. Now in the closing stages of discovery, the case has spawned a barb-laden dispute over the 14-hour deposition of a witness for MC Asset Recovery, the group representing Mirant and its unsecured creditors who claim that Southern stripped Mirant of cash, saddled it with debt and spun it off, essentially propelling its progeny into a Chapter 11 reorganization.
7 minute read
September 14, 2006 |

Federal Judge Questions Data Used by Smokers to Define Class

Eastern District of New York Judge Jack B. Weinstein expressed skepticism Wednesday over a proposed class action lawsuit that would seek as much as $200 billion in damages against the tobacco industry for its allegedly deceptive marketing of light cigarettes. In a daylong hearing, Weinstein wondered how the plaintiffs could define a viable class -- and accurately assess damages -- when the tens of millions of people who have smoked light cigarettes might have chosen to do so for any number of reasons.
4 minute read
November 25, 2009 |

New Approaches to Getting a Law Firm Job

"Turn out the lights; the party's over." Such may be the refrain of the 2009-2010 law school recruiting season, says attorney Steven C. Bennett. For law students, "downsized" associates and other lawyers in transition, these may be stressful times. For law firms, the financial turmoil may herald changes in the recruitment process and a fundamental restructuring of employment in the profession. Bennett provides some steps that job-seekers may consider to help adapt to the new recruitment practices.
5 minute read
February 12, 2007 |

Hotwire Suit Close to Takeoff

Internet travel companies have made a fortune pulling in small amounts of cash from lots of consumers. But plaintiffs lawyers might get the last laugh by dinging them with lots of small damages in class actions. Attorneys suing several online hotel brokers believe they're nearing a breakthrough in litigation over minor charges on customers' bills. San Francisco firm Gutride Safier expects to get a class certification order shortly in a case against the company that operates travel booking Web site Hotwire.
6 minute read

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