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Bad Lawyering Began and Ended Cipel's Case Against McGreevey
For 18 days former gubernatorial aide Golan Cipel and his lawyers threatened to sue New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey for sexual harassment. Throughout the standoff, the governor's lawyers practically dared Cipel to file, accusing him and his legal team of being shakedown artists without a case. In the end, Cipel and his lawyers blinked. One federal law-enforcement official called Cipel's camp "a strange cast of characters," and their legal posturing "a blur of indecisiveness."Murderer Seeks Habeas, Claiming Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
During an emotional three-day hearing, Susan L. Wright — convicted of murdering her husband Jeffrey Wright — heard one of the attorneys who defended her during her 2004 trial testify why he didn't call some witnesses who Wright alleges might have helped her win an acquittal or a lesser sentence.Blogs Make for Nasty Times in Workplace
According to one PR firm, 20,000 new blogs are created in the U.S. every day. But the blogging phenomenon is new enough that most companies have not established employee policies on the issue.Municipalities have much to address with digital billboards
Local governments must consider whether the evolution of sign technology will hurt or help their communities, writes Susan L. Trevarthen of Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske.View more book results for the query "*"
Kirkland, Simpson Lead on $2.4 Billion Agrichemicals Deal
The two Am Law 100 firms teamed up with two Israeli shops to advise on the $2.4 billion sale of a 60 percent stake in Makhteshim Agan Industries, the world's largest maker of generic agricultural chemicals, to ChemChina.A Malpractice Claim Waiting to Happen
When a law firm buys malpractice insurance, how clairvoyant must it be in predicting possible claims? A Hackensack, N.J., firm maybe should have seen one coming, since it purchased its policy at the tail end of an eight-year appeal of a dismissal of a suit as time-barred. According to the carrier, failure to sue on time was malpractice per se, and the firm had a duty to disclose it on the insurance application. A New Jersey appellate court agreed and denied coverage.Chief justice ponders supreme court's declining caseload
The number of cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court is declining in part because of the lack of significant legislation coming out of Congress, Chief Justice John Roberts said at the Alaska Bar Association's annual convention. "No one actually knows why the number of cases we are taking is declining," Roberts said Thursday. Another possible reason, he said, is that circuit courts can locate previous legal decisions online in cases where they might have once turned to the Supreme Court for guidance.Trending Stories
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