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November 11, 2002 |

Criminal Defendants Hobbled by Hobbs Act

The great divide over the federalization of violent crimes grew larger at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with the release of an evenly split en banc opinion affirming the conviction of a man sentenced to 97 years in prison for armed robbery. The man had argued that federal officials overstepped their bounds by using the Hobbs Act, a federal law aimed at criminals who interfere with interstate commerce, to prosecute him.
6 minute read
May 11, 2007 |

The Culture Gap

So many countries, so many rules for attorneys to follow. The way attorneys exchange business cards or conduct meetings can differ from country to country. Globalization of the legal world has led more lawyers to travel overseas, so grasping another country's customs can make or break a lawyer's deal. And though a number of large law firms are adding cross-cultural training of some sort, others say there are more important ways to serve clients, and they simply try to practice cultural sensitivity.
8 minute read
January 12, 2004 |

Inadmissible

7 minute read
March 04, 2013 |

From Tax To Tech

Scott Kerr of Austin has been through what many in-house lawyers would consider a nightmare: working for a company that's being sold. And he's done it twice. He's deputy general counsel of Charleston, S.C.-based Blackbaud Inc.
9 minute read
July 08, 2002 |

An End and a Beginning

Judge Robert M. Parker of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who headquarters in Tyler, recently told his colleagues on the court that he intends to retire on Nov. 1, 2002. His retirement, together with the death of former Judge Henry Politz, who once was chief judge of the court, and the appointment to the court of Judge Edith Brown Clement, should be of significant interest - and, perhaps, concern - to the bench and bar of the 5th Circuit. This change in the makeup of the court surely will resul
7 minute read
December 19, 2006 |

Edging up again

The National Law Journal asked the respondents to its 2006 survey of the nation's 250 largest law firms to provide a range of hourly billing rates for partners and associates. The firms that supplied this information-including some firms that are not in the NLJ 250-are listed below in alphabetical order. We also asked firms to provide average and median billing rates; several firms provided this information as well.
10 minute read
May 12, 2006 |

Lawyer-Presidents' Reflections On the Importance of Their Mothers

Founding father John Adams wrote to Josiah Quinn, Did you ever hear of a great and good man who had not a good mother?
7 minute read
June 25, 2004 |

New York's High Court Voids State's Death Penalty, 4-3

New York's highest court Thursday effectively shot down the state's death penalty law. The 4-3 decision found unconstitutional a statutory requirement that penalty-phase jurors be told a deadlock will ultimately make a defendant eligible for parole. The dissenting judges said they were "astonished" that the majority found the deadlock provision unconstitutional and unenforceable.
10 minute read
September 27, 2004 |

Supreme Court Ponders Religion's Place

The U.S. Supreme Court convenes in a closed conference today to consider more than 1,900 new cases. Leading the list of cases that might be granted review are several First Amendment establishment clause disputes involving prison inmates' religious rights and Ten Commandments displays on public property. The Ten Commandments cases have been grabbing the headlines, but it's the Virginia prison rights case that may have a better chance of being granted review.
12 minute read

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