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Preemption Doctrine Voids N.Y. Air-Passenger Rights Bill
Anthony Michael Sabino, a law professor at the Tobin College of Business at St. John's University and a partner at Sabino & Sabino, writes that a recent decision teaches important lessons in the limitations placed upon local lawmakers when the federal government has occupied a field with pre-existing law and is worthy of analysis.Senate confirms Mukasey as attorney general after sharp debate over waterboarding
WASHINGTON AP _ The Senate confirmed retired judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general Thursday night to replace Alberto Gonzales, who was forced from office in a scandal over his handling of the Justice Department.President Bush thanked the Senate, even though the margin had been whittled down from nearly unanimous by a sharp debate over Mukasey's refusal to say whether the waterboarding interrogation technique is torture.Chrysler Group Seeks Accountability
Alleging at a news conference that three San Antonio lawyers devised a plan worthy of a story line of any John Grisham novel, on July 8 Chrysler Group sued the trio and their former firm in Bexar County's 150th District Court.Judge Rejects Bid to Halt NYPD From Busing Protesters
New York City bus drivers are told when they are hired that they someday may be called on to assist the police department, Southern District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer noted yesterday.Real estate promoter charged in multimillion dollar investment scheme
ATLANTA AP - A real estate promoter was charged in a federal indictment unsealed Thursday with ripping investors off of tens of millions of dollars in a Ponzi scheme and using money from the fraud to pay for jewelry, luxury automobiles and credit card and tax bills. Gene A. O'Neal, 36, of Atlanta entered a not guilty plea at a hearing in federal court in Atlanta, said Patrick Crosby, a spokesman for the U.View more book results for the query "*"
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Greenberg Traurig Completes Leadership Transition
The leadership succession plan announced by Greenberg Traurig a year ago is now complete. CEO Cesar Alvarez, who joined the Miami-based firm as its 13th lawyer in 1973, stepped aside last week to let the firm's president, Richard Rosenbaum, assume the role of chief executive. In an interview with The Miami Herald, Alvarez said that as executive chairman he'll continue to oversee moves to new offices and look at ways to streamline certain practice groups, but that any final say will now be with Rosenbaum.Energy Deals Spark Work for Texas Firms
In The American Lawyer's "Corporate Scorecard," nine large Texas firms made a mark in the nation's big-bucks, big-name deals. What's keeping Texas firms on top? Energy work -- it came through when technology-related work ran dry. "Energy in a broad sense -- power companies, exploration and production companies -- probably [was] why we were up in the equity chart," says Vinson & Elkins' Michael Wortley.Forecast: Law Firms to Continue Bumpy Ride Through 2008
Preliminary financial information for 2008 suggests this will be the worst year for law firms since 2001, and perhaps since the early '90s, writes Dan DiPietro, client head of the Law Firm Group at Citi Private Bank. And the data for the first half of 2008 -- gathered from 75 Am Law 100 firms, 55 Second Hundred firms and 35 smaller firms -- shows that top-tier and international firms have been hardest hit. How can firms manage the slump? DiPietro offers some ideas, starting with associate bonuses.Howrey trustee to former partners: 'Cut deals or I'm suing'
Nearly two years after Howrey went under, the trustee overseeing the defunct firm's Chapter 11 bankruptcy is ramping up his efforts to recover tens of millions of dollars from former partners and the firms they moved to.Trending Stories
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