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December 12, 2003 |

JAG Lawyers Train for the Challenges and Perils of Iraq

Army Capt. Sebastian Edwards looks remarkably clean for someone who has been sleeping in the desert and gone days without a shower. Compared with many of his fellow soldiers training at Fort Irwin's National Training Center, Edwards appears downright fresh. Only his dust-covered boots make it plain that Edwards -- an Army judge advocate and the sole lawyer in a combat brigade of roughly 3,000 soldiers -- has spent the past three days in the Mojave Desert as part of rehearsal exercise for assignment in Iraq.
10 minute read
February 07, 2006 |

Have the Tables Turned for Online Gambling?

Although online gambling is illegal in the United States, you'd never know it by looking at the numbers. Last year alone 7.8 million Americans logged on to Internet gambling sites. And with the online gambling industry banking almost $12 billion in revenue in 2005, some U.S. casinos think the time has come to legalize Internet gambling and cash in -- a position that was considered all but unthinkable until recently.
8 minute read
August 25, 2009 |

A Candid Conversation With Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this month began his tenure as a visiting professor at Texas Tech University. His first class is "Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch," and when it comes to his students, all topics are open for discussion, he says. Texas Lawyer's John Council interviewed Gonzales about a wide range of topics: the so-called "torture memo," his controversial visit with then-AG John Ashcroft in the hospital and his involvement in the firings of nine U.S. Attorneys.
19 minute read
February 01, 2002 |

Rookie Partners Remember

For lawyers, the leap from associate to partner is the culmination of years of dedication, hard work and self-sacrifice mixed in equal parts with favorable economic conditions conducive to expanding the firm partnership, a winning attitude and, no getting around it, good luck. To achieve the rank of member of the firm is the ultimate vote of confidence by the partnership, the business equivalent of Darwin`s survival of the fittest. So is life at the top all that it`s cracked up to be? Are there many
20 minute read
December 16, 2008 |

A moment's notice for Lehman

By the second week of September, investors had all but given up on Lehman Brothers Holings Inc. Creditors wanted the 158-year-old investment bank to put up additional collateral to cover its bets in the derivatives market. Customers were scrambling to close accounts. Traders couldn't move the firm's commercial paper, or settle trades.
18 minute read
February 06, 2002 |

Amicus Brief in 'Kremen v. Cohen, et. al. and Network Solutions, Inc.'

In the American Internet Registrants Association's brief in support of reversing the district court's summary judgment in favor of Network Solutions, Inc., the AIRA supports Gary Kremen's claims for conversion, negligence and breach of contract based on NSI's alleged mishandling of the domain name "sex.com."
26 minute read
September 02, 2004 |

Next Legal Round May Be Tougher for Ex-Tyco GC

Anthony [email protected] YORK-To most of Corporate America, Mark Belnick was a sideshow. No $6,000 shower curtain graced the former Tyco International Ltd. general counsel's bathroom, and he was not even a guest at, much less the host of, a certain $2 million Roman orgy-themed party on the island of Sardinia.
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United States of America, Appellant v. William Capers, Defendant-Appellee, 07-1830-cr
Publication Date: 2010-12-07
Practice Area: Criminal Practice
Industry:
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Judge: Before: Pooler and Hall, C.JJ., Trager, D.J.*
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Anna E. Arreola, Assistant United States Attorney (Katherine Polk Failla, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, New York, for Appellant. Jerrold L. Steigman (Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., on the brief), Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C., New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee.
For defendant:
Case number: 07-1830-cr

Cite as: United States of America v. Capers, 07-1830-cr, NYLJ 1202475750605, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided December 01, 2010)Before: Pooler and Hall, C.JJ., Trager, D

December 01, 2009 |

2009 Year In Review

Our annual index to announcements of new products and services that appeared in Law Technology News from January through November 2009.
74 minute read

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