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What the Summer Associate Needs to Know: Professionalism Is Everything
Certain traits, practices and proficiencies help attorneys develop professionally and personally. Lawyers who incorporate these behaviors into their work experiences will find greater satisfaction in everything they do, which will translate into better service to clients and open the door for developing and cultivating client relationships. Thompson Hine partner Thomas Coyne explains what the key attributes of professionalism are and how summer associates can incorporate them into their workday.ABA Sues FTC Over Applying 'Red Flags Rule' to Lawyers
Former Pa. Governor Joins BigLaw
When former Gov. Edward G. Rendell isn't giving speeches, doing TV gigs or on a potential book tour, he will be in familiar territory, serving for the second time as a partner at Ballard Spahr.Inadvertent Disclosure - Regrettable Confusion
In his Professional Responsibility column, Hinshaw & Culbertson partner Anthony E. Davis the dilemma lawyers face if they accidentally receive confidential or privileged details relating to adversaries or third parties through no fault of their own, and how ABA Model Rule 4.4(b) was adopted to reduce the ethical duties from three to one, leaving in place only the duty to notify the sender of the information.Berlusconi to defend himself on TV, in courtrooms
ROME AP - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday he will go on TV and appear in courtrooms to prove that corruption and tax fraud charges in two trials against him are false.The proceedings in Milan are to resume after a top Italian court overturned a law granting Berlusconi immunity from prosecution while in office.Plea Tied to Withdrawal of Speedy Trial Motion Is Upheld
A deeply splintered Court of Appeals yesterday held that a plea bargain conditioned on withdrawal of a speedy trial motion is valid if the condition is set by the judge rather than the prosecutor.Settlement Ends City Medicaid Liens For Special Education Services
Howard S. Davis, a volunteer attorney with Legal Services for Disabled Children, writes that, beginning in approximately 1984, and continuing for the next 24 years, the City of New York Department of Social Services and other Medicaid offices around the state collected millions of dollars from thousand of special education students by including the "free" Related Service bills in Medicaid liens served on those special education children who had instituted personal injury lawsuits, regardless of the status of the tortfeasor.Panel Mulls Jurisdiction of BofA Pact
Based on questioning at oral argument at the Second Circuit on Feb. 15, the lawyers challenging Bank of America's $8.5 billion proposed settlement with mortgage-backed securities investors may have reason to be nervous.Cite as: Ableco Finance LLC v. John F. Hilson, 650618/2009, NYLJ 1202466663225, at *1 (Sup., NY, Decided July 28, 2010)Justice Shirley Werner Kornreichp cl
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