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December 18, 2003 | New York Law Journal

Lawyers on Major Transactions

Read about the $2.6 billion deal brokered by New York lawyers to create one of the world's largest independent music companies. Also, China's largest life insurer will raise more than $3 billion in the world's largest initial public offering of the year with local lawyers playing key roles.
4 minute read
November 28, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Nager looked to Abramoff for post

EVEN WITHOUT the help of Jack Abramoff, by most accounts Glen Nager was a strong candidate for a judgeship on what is widely seen as the nation's second-most-important court. Having argued his first Supreme Court case as a 28-year-old assistant to Reagan-era Solicitor General Charles Fried, Nager has long been regarded as something of a legal prodigy.
15 minute read
March 26, 2007 | Law.com

DOJ's Document Dump Highlights Administration Conflicts

The Justice Department's release of 3,000 documents related to its botched dismissals of eight U.S. Attorneys hasn't squelched the scandal over the prosecutors' firings. If anything, the more e-mails that come to light, the worse things seem to look for everyone involved, including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Legal Times takes a closer look at the documents, which highlight anew the conflict between the statements that top officials made under oath and the policies their aides were pursuing.
11 minute read
June 18, 2002 | Law.com

Alteration of Internal Document Led to Finding Against Andersen

Arthur Andersen's obstruction of justice trial wasn't about shredding or David Duncan after all. Jurors who returned a verdict Saturday in Houston say they found the accounting firm guilty of obstruction because an in-house lawyer wanted to alter an internal memo about Enron's third quarter earnings report. That gave the jury a reason to find Andersen acted with the intent to keep information from the SEC.
8 minute read
November 16, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Civilian Trial for 9/11 Suspects Raises Issues of Law, Logistics

Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement Friday that five Guantanamo Bay terror suspects will face trial just blocks from Ground Zero, where almost 3,000 people were killed, has added more fuel to the already heated debate over whether civilian courts can handle terror prosecutions. The transfer of the detainees to New York for trial presents daunting logistical and security problems for the Southern District, as well as a thicket of novel legal issues for the judge who handles the case.
7 minute read
October 23, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Immigration Law

Stanley Mailman, of counsel to Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke, and and Stephen Yale-Loehr, of counsel at Miller Mayer, analyze a recent decision by Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York which preliminarily orders two state agencies and the New York City Human Resources Administration to modify policies that allegedly deprived such women and children of critical benefits.
12 minute read
February 24, 2004 | New York Law Journal

Plea Provision Again Topples Capital Case

11 minute read
February 02, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

Wiggins' Wide-Reaching Effects

For years, claims of ineffective assistance of counsel were routinely attached to death penalty appeals -- and just as routinely rejected.
11 minute read
September 18, 2000 | Law.com

Navigating the Maze

During the 300 years of the Qing Dynasty, lobbying was an offense punishable by death. But with normalized trade relations with China expected to pass this week in the U.S. Senate, American companies may soon engage in that once-forbidden practice. However, while the influence game in modern China is just as important as it is in the United States, the rules are very different.
10 minute read
May 08, 2000 | Law.com

Probe Puts Chief Judge on the Spot

Norma Holloway Johnson -- who presided over the grand jury investigation that spurred the impeachment of a president -- is at the center of a controversy that threatens to engulf the federal trial court in Washington, D.C. A panel is investigating whether Johnson, as chief judge of the court, improperly shuttled the criminal prosecutions of well-connected Democrats to judges appointed by President Bill Clinton.
11 minute read

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