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August 13, 2009 |

New York Court of Appeals Roundup

Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry, partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, write: If a doctor performing an independent medical examination pursuant to CPLR 3121 inflicts injury in the process, may the injured person maintain an action for negligence? The answer is no, the injured person only has a cause of action for medical malpractice, the Court of Appeals ruled recently. We discuss that decision, as well as a decision involving the extent of an automobile seller's security interest in a vehicle when the owner files for bankruptcy, and a decision involving the New York City Department of Investigation's authority to investigate a person neither employed by nor doing work for the city for possible misconduct while appearing in a public forum.
10 minute read
May 31, 2002 |

Summer Must-Reads for the In-House Set

Ah summer! Let`s hit the beaches, swim in the surf, pour on the tanning oil and trade briefcases for beach bags. And here`s one more vacation tip: Stick a book in your bag, and not the latest convoluted Tom Clancy or overwrought John Grisham. Instead, bring along one that transforms you from a mere competent counsel to a trusted adviser, which morphs you from expendable soldier to irreplaceable consigliere. (Hmm, sounds like the next summer blockbuster to us.) So, here are some reading suggestions for your
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September 21, 1999 |

Scraping By in Georgia

Drew Pope might as well have been handed a 30-year mortgage along with his law school diploma in May. An assistant district attorney in Valdosta, Ga., Pope has $80,000 in law school loans - more than double his annual salary of $34,044. New attorneys who borrow to finance their legal education often start at salaries below what they owe, studies show. So instead of graduating into financial glory, many young lawyers find they're in hock.
12 minute read
December 23, 2003 |

A Year for Family Law

Several key decisions made headlines this year. In June, the Appellate Division, Second Department, affirmed a Nassau County Supreme Court decision that called for a psychologist to act as a case manager to help reduce the conflict between two of the couple's children and their mother. Also, a Suffolk County judge directed social services to place a teenage mother, already in foster care, into the home where her 1-year-old son was living with his own foster mother.
6 minute read
June 30, 2000 |

High Court Leans Moderate

In January, the Supreme Court was invisible. All nine justices stayed away from the State of the Union address. In June, the Supreme Court was everywhere, lobbing bombshell opinions on abortion, school prayer and gays in the Boy Scouts. So where will the Court be by November? It could go either way: absent from the political fray or in the middle of hot-button issues -- a reflection of the basic paradox of the Rehnquist Court.
7 minute read
December 12, 2000 |

Surviving the Great Salary Wars

Looking back on the Great Salary War of 2000 -- and forward to a potential salary war in 2001 -- it's time to assess the fallout. Who will pay for the exorbitant associate salaries? How can smaller firms compete for talent? Moderator Edward Poll, J.D., M.B.A., CMC of Edward Poll & Associates, Inc. and a panel of attorneys and law practice management consultants examined these issues during the recent law.com seminar "Law Practice Management: Managing People First."
15 minute read
December 21, 2005 |

Lawyer of the Year: Patrick Fitzgerald

As special counsel for the Department of Justice, Patrick Fitzgerald has taken on some of the world's most influential people by trying to uncover who divulged the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame. The matter encompasses the very reasons for the war in Iraq, while also striking at the heart of freedoms protected by the Constitution. For those reasons, Fitzgerald -- alternately described as exacting, thorough, obsessive and mellow -- is The National Law Journal's 2005 Lawyer of the Year.
6 minute read
November 24, 2003 |

Court May Hear Challenge to 9th Circuit's Assault Weapon Ruling

For more than six decades, the Supreme Court has ducked the opportunity to examine the real meaning of the Second Amendment's promise of the right to "keep and bear arms." Now, some advocates of gun rights are hoping the Supreme Court will finally bite the bullet and grant review in Silveira v. Lockyer, a challenge to California's strict 1999 assault weapon ban. The case is one of dozens the justices are set to discuss at their private conference Wednesday.
8 minute read
March 12, 2012 |

Long-Term Value: GC Saves Money By Taking on Medicare

Richard Cheng, general counsel of Senior Care Centers, says his new colleagues were perplexed when the company hired him last year. It's rare for long-term health-care companies to have in-house counsel, he explains — an irony since the industry is heavily regulated.
10 minute read
June 01, 2004 |

Pulling Castro's Crank

A proposed $4,000 FCC fine for two Miami DJs' prank phone call to Fidel Castro, during which they called him an assassin, has left William Bedsworth with some questions. Asks the California judge: "Why in hell does the FCC care about this? ... We have terminated diplomatic relations with Cuba. We have subsidized its invasion, blockaded its coasts, embargoed its products ... and crippled its economy ... but we draw the line at crank calls?"
9 minute read

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