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Boies Schiller Partner Moves On From Miami
A prominent Miami law firm's merger six months ago with the national firm Boies Schiller & Flexner has led to the departure of a South Florida partner who felt his locally focused estate planning practice no longer fit in. Douglas Kniskern started Friday as of counsel at Orlando, Fla.-based Broad and Cassel, where the wills, trusts and estates attorney will work out of the firm's Miami and Fort Lauderdale offices.Fla. Legal Elite Hope to Get Judges a Little Respect
A group of high-powered Florida lawyers is launching an effort to restore public confidence in a bench beset by criminal investigation, insensitive comments, embarrassing blunders and other actions that have kept judges in the local and national headlines during the past year. Said one member of the group: "The media have been very tough on the judges lately, and we need to try to work hard to restore their image."Verdicts & Settlements: Worker will get $2.75 million
Closing a Gender Generation Gap
Numbers are scarce, but a recent Colorado Women's Bar study found that 31% of female lawyers were single--almost twice the proportion of single male lawyers. The difference in their personal choices has helped create a lamentable "generation gap" between older and younger female lawyersGOP signals rough path to AG for Holder
The disagreement on the Senate floor last week was ostensibly over timing.While congressional leaders negotiated behind closed doors over proposed loans to Detroit automakers, several Republicans took the floor Wednesday and Thursday to discuss Covington Burling's Eric Holder Jr. They called for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.Management guru 'Doe' wins partial victory over Regents
By Alyson M. Palmer, Staff Reporter"John Doe" is suing Georgia's Board of Regents over allegations that it breached a contract to give him the deanship of Georgia Tech's management school in 1997.The Court of Appeals of Georgia ruled March 29 that Doe had a contract with the Board of Regents, but the question of whether the board breached the contract should go to a jury-a partial victory for the plaintiff.New Tactics Being Used in War on Drug Money
Prosecutors at the Justice Department are in the midst of a war against the sophisticated, $6 billion-per-year money-laundering mechanism known as the "black market peso exchange." A new DOJ initiative bent on forcing the movement of drug dollars back into the open again aims to educate U.S. businesses that the way they are paid, and by whom, can be a clear indication of whether they are receiving dirty money.Congress should try for new 'honest services' law
A prison gate in Florida opened this week to free former newspaper magnate Conrad Black. The first white-collar convict helped by a new decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, Black won't be the last. The ruling isn't going to empty U.S. prisons of all ex-executives and public officials accused of cheating shareholders or taxpayers.Trending Stories
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