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December 13, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

'Tis the Season When Gifts Become Bribes

Getting ready to send out seasonal gifts to business partners? Here are some simple tips to help your company have a very compliant gift-giving holiday.
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August 06, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Tosses Suit Against Coroner Over Unwanted Cremation

A county coroner who clears an unclaimed corpse for cremation cannot be accused of constitutional rights violations for failing to notify the next of kin because the courts have never offered any guidance on the sort of notification process required when relatives are hard to find, a federal judge has ruled.
7 minute read
April 06, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

Legislative Scorecard

Bills of interest to lawyers pending in the Texas Legislature.
3 minute read
May 13, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Wiseacre Judge Says He's Suffered Enough for His Barbs From the Bench

James Convery, an Essex County judge whose wisecracking from the bench landed him in disciplinary proceedings, has asked to be spared from punishment because he conceded his error, apologized for it and has already been punished due to public embarrassment.
3 minute read
June 03, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Private-Public Partnerships: The Way To Get Large Projects Done

From state agencies to local governments, private-public partnerships are becoming the way to finance infrastructure upgrades and build revenue-generating projects on public land.
11 minute read
July 01, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Q&A: Susan Schultz Laluk

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March 03, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey's Muzzle on Judges Is at Odds With Free-Speech Rulings

For New Jersey judges, even a simple invitation to a banquet demands careful weighing of potential consequences. The state's Code of Judicial Conduct requires judges to abstain from partisan politics and take great care in social interactions that might create an appearance of impropriety. New Jersey's hermetically sealed bubble may be burst if a Feb. 20 federal court ruling striking down New York's judicial gag rule on First Amendment grounds becomes the law of the land.
7 minute read
November 30, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Suit Allowed, but Damages Cut in Doctor's Affair With Patient

Finding a patient could bring a malpractice suit against a physician with whom she had a nine-month affair while he was treating her, the Court of Appeals nonetheless threw out a punitive damage award in her favor on the grounds she failed to show the doctor engaged in "evil or malicious conduct" beyond any breach of professional duty.
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April 05, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Convicted Amish fight for release

Attorneys for a group of Amish men and women found guilty of hate crimes for cutting the hair and beards of fellow members of their faith in eastern Ohio are arguing that the group's conviction, sentencing and imprisonment in separate facilities across the country violates their constitutional rights and amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, according to recent court filings.
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December 27, 2010 | National Law Journal

Lawyers behaving badly, 2010 edition

Some lawyers and judges found themselves in big trouble this year. Strippers, bribes, phony billings and prostitutes were a few of the career cripplers for jurists and practitioners in 2010. We've highlighted some of the low points.
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