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September 13, 2002 |

Inadmissible

6 minute read
July 05, 2007 |

As Firms Grow, Who Can't Afford to Stand Still?

A recent lack of merger activity involving Washington, D.C., law firms may be only a lull. Managing partners and recruiters theorize that firms are biding their time, doing their due diligence before starting a new round of the dating game. Says one partner, "I think we're in the pre-earthquake stage. Certain offices are starting to lose talent, and at some point there's going to be a seismic shift." Which firms are most likely to merge in the coming years? Industry insiders explain their forecasts.
13 minute read
August 21, 2007 |

Criminal Attorneys Provide Post-Game Analysis of Padilla Case

On Thursday, a federal jury in Miami found Jose Padilla and co-defendants Adham Hassoun and Kifah Jayyousi guilty on all counts of conspiring to support terrorism overseas. They face life in prison. Many of Miami's prominent criminal attorneys sat in on all or part of the trial to watch the lawyering, support their defense lawyer or prosecutor friends, or just out of sheer curiosity. What did they think of the legal strategies and judging? Here is the post-game analysis.
7 minute read
April 21, 2003 |

State v. Muhammad,

15 minute read
March 06, 2006 |

Online Disputes Expose Publishers' Copyright Vulnerability

With only a loose grip on their most valuable intellectual property, book publishers have had little luck fighting for their digital rights in court, losing a string of cases to authors. Now, with authors emboldened by these wins, and Google and others looking into new ways to distribute content, the publishing industry is teetering on the brink of irrelevancy. Will authors succeed in rewriting the publishing industry's longstanding role as literary patron and gatekeeper?
13 minute read
May 03, 2004 |

Court Struggles With Terrorism Cases

The Supreme Court seemed troubled by contentious arguments in a pair of landmark cases testing federal power to detain U.S. citizens Yaser Esam Hamdi and Jose Padilla as enemy combatants without judicial review. Also: The Court heard arguments in the dispute over Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force records and wondered whether foreign plaintiffs should be able to use U.S. antitrust laws.
15 minute read
February 24, 2010 |

Denial of Raise Is Ruled Unconstitutional

By failing to grant the state's judges a raise for 11 years, the Legislature has created a "crisis" that violates the separation of powers doctrine, the Court of Appeals ruled yesterday. However, the Court declined requests to order an immediate raise or to fashion another remedy for the constitutional breach other than the "appropriate and expeditious legislative consideration" of the issue on its merits alone.
9 minute read
June 02, 2008 |

Did Affirmative Action Really Hinder Clarence Thomas?

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blames Yale Law School -- specifically, its affirmative action program -- for his difficulties securing a job as a first-year associate after his graduation. He wrote in his autobiography that his degree was basically worthless, since it "bore the taint of racial preference." But interviews with a dozen African-American lawyers who attended Yale in the same years paint a strikingly different picture.
17 minute read
November 01, 2012 |

Unapproved Opinions

Opinions not approved for publication.
24 minute read
June 27, 2001 |

Pickett's Charge

Stephen Pickett is in the midst of the biggest crisis of his career -- a disaster that could bankrupt the company he's worked for since 1978, and trash the economy of the state where he's lived his entire life. Pickett is the general counsel for Southern California Edison. With the California energy crisis raging, he is caught in a swirl of lawsuits, regulatory battles, and high-stakes negotiations.
18 minute read

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