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April 26, 2002 | Law.com

Judgment Entered Against Boies Firm in Sex Discrimination Suit

David Boies' Armonk, N.Y.-based firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, has agreed to have a judgment entered against it and to pay $37,500 each to two plaintiffs to settle a wage and sex discrimination suit. The suit was brought by two former female associates, Bonnie Porter and Rachel Baird. Porter said she agreed to the settlement because the firm had taken steps to address the issues raised in the suit.
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April 29, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

'Sacred' Sack Fight: Gucci's Spat With Guess Over Non-Lawyer Heats Up

In new court papers, Gucci's lawyers vehemently argue that if the luxury bag maker is denied attorney-client privilege with its (non-lawyer) in-house lawyer, the company would 'be deprived of the most sacred right a litigant enjoys under U.S. law.'
3 minute read
August 30, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

Farber v. City of Paterson et al

Plaintiff's claims that the city-defendants deprived her of a property interest without due process under the federal and state constitutions when they terminated her are dismissed without prejudice because the Department of Personnel, not the court, has jurisdiction to determine whether she had a property interest in her job; all other motions to dismiss her other due process, civil rights, wrongful discharge and breach of the duty of fair representation claims are analyzed and denied.
27 minute read
November 01, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

An Inside Job

Employee theft or fraud is virtually inevitable in any large business. Like all other businesses, law firms need to know how to respond to such unexpected and potentially costly events.
7 minute read
August 08, 2013 | New Jersey Law Journal

When the Government Comes Knocking, Check Your Insurance Coverage

Insurance coverage may be available to help recoup costs associated with responding to governmental subpoenas and investigations. This is true for companies as well as their individual directors and officers.
8 minute read
September 11, 2006 | National Law Journal

DOJ is steadily losing ground in wiretap cases

Federal Judge Anna Diggs Taylor came under attack from conservatives last month after ruling that the NSA's warrantless surveillance program is both illegal and unconstitutional.
5 minute read
August 10, 2000 | Law.com

A Question of Jurisdiction

The threshold issue of whether federal jurisdiction exists when a party with contractual rights to another's copyrighted material breaches the agreement -- has given the courts a surprising level of difficulty. Some courts have granted plaintiffs access to federal court under the Copyright Act. Other courts, however, treat these cases as "garden variety" contract claims arising under state law. These conflicting lines of cases reveal what circumstances may justify the exercise of federal jurisdiction.
14 minute read
April 28, 2010 | Law.com

2 Small Firm Attorneys to Teach Business Law in China, Poland

Attorneys C. Robert Zelinger and Carole W. Briggs, both of Levy & Droney, will each devote two weeks next month going overseas to teach college classes. Zelinger, who heads the firm's business finance practices group, will teach American business law concepts in China's Shandong province. Briggs, whose practice combines real estate, commercial transactions and litigation, will teach business law in Warsaw, Poland. She accepted a volunteer teaching offer from the Center for International Legal Studies.
6 minute read
April 14, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Computer Crime

David Frey, an assistant district attorney on Staten Island and chief of the computer and technology investigations unit, writes that the computer is a very good witness as to the date, time and place that a defendant committed the crime of promoting and possessing child pornography, and the corroborative evidence that the defendant was the person that committed the crime.
17 minute read
August 30, 2010 | New York Law Journal

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.
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