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Kmart corp.'s request for a proposal (RFP) for a new national labor counsel was just a little different from anything Foley Lardner's chief information officer, Douglas Caddell, had seen before.Lawyer's Misconduct Costs Him Any Share of $1.2 Million Fee
A maritime lawyer's misconduct, including his flight from New York to avoid arrest on contempt charges, has disqualified him from sharing in a contingency fee for work performed prior to his disbarment, a federal bankruptcy judge ruled last week. Disbarred lawyer Kenneth Heller's refusal to turn over files in a matter that ultimately was resolved with a $3.7 million settlement was "symptomatic" of a 24-year record of "utter contempt for the judicial system," Judge Stuart M. Bernstein wrote.Lawyers Seek Reparations for Prisoner Abuse Victims
About six weeks after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke, Michigan lawyer Shereef Akeel and lawyers from New York and Philadelphia filed a class action in the federal court in San Diego. Relying on the controversial Alien Tort Claims Act and RICO, the lawyers claimed that CACI International and Titan Corp., two companies contracted to help with interrogations, participated in a "scheme to torture, rape, and, in some instances, summarily execute plaintiffs" and should be made to pay for their suffering.Courtside: For Justice Thomas, silence may not be golden
Four years ago, South Carolina Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald Zelenka was about to wrap up his oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court when he heard an unfamiliar voice.Justice Clarence Thomas, who almost never asks questions, was asking him one, about the standard the trial court judge in Holmes v. South Carolina used for allowing certain evidence into the case.Discovery Dispute Latest in Battle Over Texas Class Actions
The Texas Supreme Court agreed on Oct. 17 to weigh in on a different kind of discovery dispute. David Mattax, chief of the Financial Litigation Division at the Texas attorney general's office, says the dispute isn't over documents that the state is seeking to protect -- the real fight is over the OAG's authority to bring a class action. But that fight is intertwined with the dispute over documents.Global Perspective, Eye for Detail
If she is confirmed as Pennsylvania's newest Supreme Court justice, Allegheny County Judge Cynthia A. Baldwin will bring to the high court an impressive breadth of experience. At home, she has wrestled with civil practice staples such as social host liability, professional negligence and immunities. Meanwhile, she has taught constitutional principles to judges of emerging democracies.As Sexual Abuse Scandal Swirls, Penn State Hires Reed Smith
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