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March 19, 2003 | Law.com

The 'Interest' in Title IX

Maybe the average girl isn't innately interested in playing ice hockey. But it's also possible that she would be as interested as the average boy if she encountered less surprise and more acceptance -- fewer jeers and more cheers. That, says Professor Jill R. Gaulding, is why the "interest argument" against Title IX sports equity is so wrong.
12 minute read
December 04, 2006 | Law.com

New Litigation Discovery Rules Take Effect

New litigation discovery rules dealing with electronic communications are causing headaches for lawyers and their corporate clients. Some of the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which took effect Friday, are so broad that experts say every company should review its information retention and storage policies. But, according to one attorney, "The new rules really lay out the disclosure requirements. It is not so much what you have to preserve, but what you have to tell the other side."
6 minute read
October 01, 2006 | Law.com

What He Really Means Is . . .

President Bush�s use of signing statements is drawing criticism from all quarters.
5 minute read
January 17, 2001 | Law.com

Cooley Godward Banks on Biotech IPOs

Bill Young of ViroLogic Inc. was not a man in a rush. When it came time to bring his 5-year-old biotech company public, he patiently waited until he thought the market conditions were right. Then he put in a call to San Francisco-based Cooley Godward, a law firm that often helps immature startups do everything from protecting their intellectual property to working out problems with their venture backers.
9 minute read
July 05, 2000 | Law.com

The AmLaw 100: How The NY Firms Rank

1999 was another banner year for New York's largest law firms, with profits per partner rising by at least 10 percent at 21 firms, and increases of 25 percent or more at five of those firms, according to The American Lawyer's annual list of the nation's 100 highest-grossing firms. Thirty-two New York firms made the top 100 list this year.
3 minute read
November 14, 2000 | Law.com

Students Take Flight With a Little Help From Bar Association

Top lawyers fought back tears as a teen named Alberto described how he became convinced that he could apply to college. College had seemed unreachable to him, but a trip changed his mind. When the Bar Association of San Francisco sent a group of high school seniors to visit colleges on the East Coast, using the collected frequent-flier miles of 33 Bay Area legal heavyweights, the trip paid off.
3 minute read
August 16, 2006 | Law.com

Specter, Grassley Voice Concern Over SEC Handling of Hedge Fund Probe

Sens. Arlen Specter and Charles Grassley have expressed concern over the SEC's handling of a former agency attorney's allegations that superiors stymied his insider-trading investigation of a major hedge fund, Pequot Capital Management. In a letter, the two Republican senators told Chairman Christopher Cox that, despite SEC cooperation with a Senate inquiry, "many questions ... remain unanswered." The letter also requested that Cox make available several SEC employees for interviews by Senate investigators.
4 minute read
March 26, 2013 | Law.com

Ex-Nixon Peabody partner's co-defendant draws 10-year sentence in Ponzi scheme

The sentencing of a Beverly Hills, Calif., businessman who admitted his role in a $20 million Ponzi scheme might bode ill for his alleged co-conspirator, former Nixon Peabody securities partner David Tamman.
5 minute read
March 01, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Big Suits

The FDIC must reimburse shareholders of a bank seized in 1992, and Daiichi Sankyo settles with the feds, plus In Re General Electric Co. Securities Litigation; Fairfax Financial v. S.A.C. Capital Management, et al.; U.S. Fidelity et al. v. American Re-Insurance et al.
16 minute read
September 27, 1999 | Law.com

When Pro Bono Is More Like an Investment

"Does anyone really think helping someone get rich off a movie qualifies as pro bono work?" asks Philip Morelock, a contract paralegal. Well, as a matter of fact, lots of lawyers think precisely that. Many of them, to be sure, have lent a free helping hand to struggling actors, directors, musicians and other artists, with an eye toward potential paying clients in the event that the struggles turn into stardom. Yet they still call it pro bono.
5 minute read

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