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March 04, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

From Tax To Tech

Scott Kerr of Austin has been through what many in-house lawyers would consider a nightmare: working for a company that's being sold. And he's done it twice. He's deputy general counsel of Charleston, S.C.-based Blackbaud Inc.
10 minute read
July 08, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

An End and a Beginning

Judge Robert M. Parker of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who headquarters in Tyler, recently told his colleagues on the court that he intends to retire on Nov. 1, 2002. His retirement, together with the death of former Judge Henry Politz, who once was chief judge of the court, and the appointment to the court of Judge Edith Brown Clement, should be of significant interest - and, perhaps, concern - to the bench and bar of the 5th Circuit. This change in the makeup of the court surely will resul
8 minute read
December 19, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Edging up again

The National Law Journal asked the respondents to its 2006 survey of the nation's 250 largest law firms to provide a range of hourly billing rates for partners and associates. The firms that supplied this information-including some firms that are not in the NLJ 250-are listed below in alphabetical order. We also asked firms to provide average and median billing rates; several firms provided this information as well.
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May 12, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Lawyer-Presidents' Reflections On the Importance of Their Mothers

Founding father John Adams wrote to Josiah Quinn, Did you ever hear of a great and good man who had not a good mother?
8 minute read
June 25, 2004 | Law.com

New York's High Court Voids State's Death Penalty, 4-3

New York's highest court Thursday effectively shot down the state's death penalty law. The 4-3 decision found unconstitutional a statutory requirement that penalty-phase jurors be told a deadlock will ultimately make a defendant eligible for parole. The dissenting judges said they were "astonished" that the majority found the deadlock provision unconstitutional and unenforceable.
12 minute read
September 27, 2004 | Law.com

Supreme Court Ponders Religion's Place

The U.S. Supreme Court convenes in a closed conference today to consider more than 1,900 new cases. Leading the list of cases that might be granted review are several First Amendment establishment clause disputes involving prison inmates' religious rights and Ten Commandments displays on public property. The Ten Commandments cases have been grabbing the headlines, but it's the Virginia prison rights case that may have a better chance of being granted review.
14 minute read
May 31, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Summer Must-Reads for the In-House Set

Ah summer! Let`s hit the beaches, swim in the surf, pour on the tanning oil and trade briefcases for beach bags. And here`s one more vacation tip: Stick a book in your bag, and not the latest convoluted Tom Clancy or overwrought John Grisham. Instead, bring along one that transforms you from a mere competent counsel to a trusted adviser, which morphs you from expendable soldier to irreplaceable consigliere. (Hmm, sounds like the next summer blockbuster to us.) So, here are some reading suggestions for your
9 minute read
June 30, 2000 | Law.com

High Court Leans Moderate

In January, the Supreme Court was invisible. All nine justices stayed away from the State of the Union address. In June, the Supreme Court was everywhere, lobbing bombshell opinions on abortion, school prayer and gays in the Boy Scouts. So where will the Court be by November? It could go either way: absent from the political fray or in the middle of hot-button issues -- a reflection of the basic paradox of the Rehnquist Court.
8 minute read
December 12, 2000 | Law.com

Surviving the Great Salary Wars

Looking back on the Great Salary War of 2000 -- and forward to a potential salary war in 2001 -- it's time to assess the fallout. Who will pay for the exorbitant associate salaries? How can smaller firms compete for talent? Moderator Edward Poll, J.D., M.B.A., CMC of Edward Poll & Associates, Inc. and a panel of attorneys and law practice management consultants examined these issues during the recent law.com seminar "Law Practice Management: Managing People First."
17 minute read
December 21, 2005 | Law.com

Lawyer of the Year: Patrick Fitzgerald

As special counsel for the Department of Justice, Patrick Fitzgerald has taken on some of the world's most influential people by trying to uncover who divulged the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame. The matter encompasses the very reasons for the war in Iraq, while also striking at the heart of freedoms protected by the Constitution. For those reasons, Fitzgerald -- alternately described as exacting, thorough, obsessive and mellow -- is The National Law Journal's 2005 Lawyer of the Year.
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