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June 29, 2009 |

Loan-Modification Work May Flout Ethics Rules, Court Panels Warn

Attorney who represent customers of mortgage-modification companies — increasingly attractive work these days — are at risk of losing their law licenses if they split fees with the financiers, two Supreme Court committees say in a joint ethics opinion.
4 minute read
September 23, 2002 |

Our First-Year Angst

It's not just the new students who need to find their way in law school. After her rookie season as a Howard University School of Law professor, Aminata Ipyana recalls an experience in which her very inexperience was the problem -- without meaning to, she made a student cry. But the silver lining is that, since that incident, she's never forgotten what it's like to be new and nervous.
5 minute read
August 30, 2010 |

Sharp Increase in Criminal Cases But Little Variation in Affirmance Rates

Paul Shechtman, a partner at Stillman, Friedman & Shechtman, writes that the 2009-2010 term fulfilled Chief Judge Lippman's promise: the Court heard more criminal cases than in any year in the past decade, and ruled on topics such as the Confrontation Clause, collateral consequences of guilty pleas and televised testimony.
14 minute read
October 01, 2006 |

Insecurity Complex

A laptop theft at the VA led to questions about the general counsel�s role in computer security policy.
4 minute read
February 04, 2010 |

Southern District Civil Practice Roundup

Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul, principals of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, write that, for the recipient, a 30(b)(6) notice carries with it substantial obligations to designate and prepare appropriate witness(es) - obligations the recipient ignores at its peril.
12 minute read
June 05, 2009 |

Changing Times, Changing Defenses

Excerpts from a 1997 Recorder interview with women's movement pioneer Susan Jordan, who died last week.
9 minute read
December 08, 2000 |

Face-Off!

With major league sports in full bloom, Corporate Counselinvited the leagues' top legal officers and a few sports law specialists to their own skirmish. From drug testing and salary caps to the challenges posed by the Internet, a handful of lawyers spoke about the sparks that fly when business and law collide with America's favorite pastimes.
14 minute read
April 12, 2010 |

Arguments Heard In Former ADA's Discrimination Case

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on April 6 in an employment discrimination appeal in which a former Dallas County assistant district attorney alleges DA Craig Watkins fired him on the basis of his race. Rick Jackson, who is white, alleges he was wrongly fired by then-new DA Watkins — the first black district attorney in Texas — and replaced by a less-experienced black attorney.
5 minute read

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