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April 08, 2013 |

INADMISSIBLE

The elephant in the courtroom; feds chastised for FOIA holds; easy compliance for lobbyists; Hertling joins Covington; more senators for gay marriage; Holder pessimistic about Voting Rights Act; and a sinking suit in this week's column.
6 minute read
July 02, 2007 |

Rescue worker

Q & A with Thomas Berner, First Capital Executive Vice President and General Counsel
5 minute read
March 07, 2005 |

Football as Metaphor

Sure, "Friday Night Lights" is an entertaining football movie. But it's also about more than just high school games in Texas. In fact, it might have something to say about our nation's involvement in Iraq.
9 minute read
September 21, 2004 |

Leveraging Language Skills

Do you have foreign language skills that you want to use in a law practice? In today's global economy many law firms look for such abilities. But just being able to speak another tongue won't guarantee you a dream legal job. You must acquire legal tools and experience that will enhance those skills. Heed our tips to become fluent in the language of the happily employed.
4 minute read
August 31, 2005 |

5th Circuit Courthouse Closed, But Judges Still Handling Emergency Matters

As Hurricane Katrina and growing floodwaters have turned the New Orleans business district into a legal ghost town, officials at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals are making plans to relocate the court. Several breaks in the levees that surround the city have caused water to rise around the marble walls of the John Minor Wisdom Courthouse, which houses the 5th Circuit.
4 minute read
June 05, 2007 |

Sears blasts majority in Cobb custody case

CHIEF JUSTICE LEAH WARD SEARS, who has made her off-the-bench mission to address family law issues, put her passion into a hard-charging dissent Monday.Accusing her colleagues on the Supreme Court of Georgia of misstating the record, Sears blasted the 5-2 majority that upheld a Cobb County judge's decision to deny a man any visitation of the girl he adopted after marrying her mother, who initiated the divorce.
6 minute read
June 28, 1999 |

Business: Friend of The Court

Fed up with an onslaught of job discrimination suits against its 160,000-plus members, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce set out two years ago to even the score through a strategic campaign waged in appellate courts and legislatures around the country. Those efforts started to bear judicial fruit last week when a Supreme Court majority took a page from the business group9s friend of the court brief and made it more difficult for workers to wrest punitive damages from errant employers.
5 minute read
December 08, 2009 |

Justices seem skeptical of 'honest services'

U.S. Supreme Court justices of all stripes appeared sharply critical on Tuesday of the federal law that makes it a crime to "deprive another of honest services," leaving the often-used prosecutorial tool in serious doubt.
4 minute read
January 21, 2010 |

Top-Gaining Firms-Lateral Partner Hires

3 minute read
April 06, 2007 |

Judge Stops Fee Pacts in Lead Paint Suit

In what could lead to a major setback for affirmative litigation in California, a Santa Clara County judge has told several cities and counties they can't contract with private lawyers on a contingency basis in their nuisance suit against lead paint manufacturers. The ruling by Judge Jack Komar says lawyers for the government are supposed to be neutral, a stance that's not possible when a contingency fee is riding on the outcome of their efforts.
4 minute read

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