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» 'Founding Partners' Decision Shows Limits of SEC's Power Over Relief Defendants
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - In-House Counsel
Jenner and Block's Michael K. Lowman and Andrew F. Merrick examine SEC v. Founding Partners Capital Mgmt., a recent federal court ruling that significantly curtails the power of the Securities and Exchange Commission to pursue ill-gotten ga..

» Network of Small, Midsize Firms Look for Opportunity in Hard Times
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - In-House Counsel
Hard times bring opportunities, and the network of small and midsize law firms called Meritas hopes that more general counsel come knocking as their companies look for ways to cut costs. Cost savings isn't the only reason to use one of Meri..

» Two Veteran Lawyers Say Now Is the Time for Fixed Fees
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - In-House Counsel
In these troubled economic times, fixed fees for particular legal matters have appeal for law firms and their corporate clients. Ben W. Heineman Jr., former GC for General Electric, and William F. Lee, co-managing partner for WilmerHale, st..

» GC Didn't Split Stock Options With Ex-Wife, but That Wasn't Contempt
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - In-House Counsel
The general counsel of LoJack Corp. has beaten a contempt judgment, but he still must kick in additional alimony to his ex-wife for money he made in company stock. In a matter of first impression, the Appeals Court of Massachusetts found on..

» Who Represents America's Biggest Companies ... and How
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - In-House Counsel
For years, corporate counsel have been saying that they want to tear up the old model of doing business with their law firms. This year, they may finally start to make good on their threats. The recession is forcing corporate legal departme..

» Everybody's Getting on Case Against Bad Ads
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - In-House Counsel
Highlighting an uptick in advertising litigation, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo last week ordered nearly 40 auto dealers to stop running allegedly deceptive ads about the federal "Cash for Clunkers" program. Consumer lawyers ..

» For Litigators, a Different Kind of Recession
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - In-House Counsel
A year ago, as the economy began its freefall, corporate law departments were preparing for an all-out assault by plaintiffs. But the early numbers for this recession are showing something quite different. Susan Hackett, GC for the Associat..

» Inside the New GM Dealer Agreements
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - In-House Counsel
Automakers Chrysler and General Motors changed the history of dealer relations when they stepped through dozens of state laws and regulations and terminated thousands of long-standing dealers through the power of the Supremacy Clause of the..

» In-House Counsel Face New Global Challenges
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - In-House Counsel
Although no new claim trends against in-house counsel have emerged in 2009, the atmosphere is polluted with unemployment, liquidity crisis, congressional investigations, collapse of industry giants, massive Ponzi frauds, regulations to "go ..

» At DOJ's Request, Judge Dismisses FCPA Sting Case
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a high-profile foreign bribery prosecution as he questioned the government's litigation tactics and legal theories underpinning the case. "This appears to be the end of a long and sad day in the annals o..

» Simpson Helps BC Partners Raise $8.6 Billion for Acquisitions
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is acting for London-based private equity giant BC Partners on one of the largest fundraising efforts in Europe since the global financial crisis began in 2008. BC has closed its BC European Capital IX fund after ..

» D.C. Circuit Upholds SEC's Permanent Bar Against Investment Adviser
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
The D.C. Circuit has refused to erase an SEC order permanently barring a lawyer from associating with an investment adviser or an investment company. The court said the commission didn't step out of line when it issued its permanent bar in ..

» MGA's revived antitrust claim fails to persuade
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
An attorney for MGA Entertainment, citing a "last effort" to prove that Barbie maker Mattel has monopolized the fashion doll market, has vowed to appeal a federal judge's final dismissal of his client's $1 billion antitrust suit.

» Court wades back into affirmative action
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
The Supreme Court announced Tuesday it would revisit the divisive issue of affirmative action in higher education. But it will do so without Justice Elena Kagan, who recused herself, and without Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who retired in 2..

» Littler Mendelson's Weiner, McGuire on BigLaw E-Discovery
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
Littler Mendelson's Paul D. Weiner, national e-discovery counsel, and Michael J. McGuire, chief information security officer, speak to LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, about how the firm manages e-discovery, and compare its effor..

» DLA Piper's Browning Marean on E-Discovery Proportionality
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
Browning Marean, senior counsel at DLA Piper, speaks to LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, about the challenges of fashioning responses to discovery requests that are appropriate -- and proportional -- to a case.

» Judge John Facciola on E-Discovery Training at a Crossroads
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
D.C. District Judge John Facciola speaks with LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, about how e-discovery training is at a crossroads, constrained by limited financial resources at the governmental level. He proposes several solutions..

» Litigator of the Year Winner - David Boies
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
The Boies, Schiller & Flexner founder explains how he prepared for the key cross-examinations in the Proposition 8 case.

» Prop 8 Backers Seek En Banc Review of Gay Marriage Decision
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
Instead of heading straight to the U.S. Supreme Court, backers of the Prop 8 ban on gay marriage are seeking rehearing by an en banc panel of the 9th Circuit, arguing that the court's holding in Perry v. Brown conflicts with the Supreme Cou..

» D.C. Circuit Rejects Suit Over Gitmo Detainees' Deaths
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday rejected a suit that demanded the government pay damages to the representatives of two Guantanamo Bay detainees who died in custody. The panel did not reach the merits of the case but said the trial judge did not..

» Conflicts Arise When Complying With U.S. and E.U. Laws
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
Companies that collect employee information to comply with U.S. laws may find themselves running afoul of European Union regulations that guard employee privacy even in the case of information stored on company devices. And a new E.U. data ..

» Court returns from recess with a rush of activity
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
The Supreme Court returned from its traditional February recess with a flurry of activity ranging from its grant in a major affirmative action challenge to a decision on Miranda warnings to a proposed bet between a justice and a lawyer.

» Judicial pay challenge clears hurdle at Federal Circuit
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
Federal judges challenging a congressional blockade of judicial cost-of-living pay increases have cleared a key procedural hurdle that ultimately may return their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Said the attorney for the judges: "We won -- ..

» Reluctant Facebook Plaintiff Ordered to Testify
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
Despite her efforts to avoid it, Seattle seamstress Angel Fraley will have to testify in a lawsuit accusing Facebook of violating her privacy. On Tuesday, a California judge denied Fraley's motion for a protective order that would have kept..

» The Global Lawyer: Treaty Arbitration Clashes with Human Rights (or at least with Ecuador's Courts)
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
Last week, Chevron won an arbitral award neutralizing the $18 billion Ecuadorean judgment now on appeal in that country. But the next day the intermediate Ecuadorean appellate court rejected the arbitrators' order as offensive to Ecuador's ..

» No Respite
23/02/12 01:21 from Law.com - Newswire
State courts across the U.S. are bracing for another year of austerity as a new budget cycle threatens once again to limit their funding. Despite glimmers of hope in the economy as a whole, court funding is unlikely to rebound right away, s..

» Justices Greenlight Priest Abuse Case
23/02/12 01:20 from Law.com - Newswire
With jury selection slated to start this week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has given the green light to what may be the first-ever prosecution in the country of an official in the Catholic Church leadership for harm allegedly done to you..

» Ex-Wife's 'Thirst for Litigation' Over Divorce Leads to Sanction
23/02/12 01:20 from Law.com - Newswire
A woman with what a New York state judge called an "unrelenting thirst for litigation" in her unsuccessful efforts to vacate a six-year-old divorce judgment has been ordered to pay $60,000 in sanctions and costs for her "frivolous conduct."

» Sidley Austin Looks to Riverbed to Build a Broader Network
23/02/12 01:20 from Law.com - Legal Technology
Sidley Austin had a legacy network connecting its 17 offices in the U.S., Asia and Europe, resulting in slow data transfers and limiting the firm's ability to centralize IT resources. To create better connectivity between offices, the firm ..

» 4th Circuit Unloads on Government's Use of Disrespectful and Uncivil Language in Appellate Brief
22/02/12 21:26 from Law.com - Inside Opinions: Legal Blogs
As I discussed here earlier this month, certain federal judges have zero patience for counsel who want to trot out exaggerated rhetoric about how bad their opponent's case is, how "stunningly incompetent" the other side's counsel may be, an..

» Egypt judge sets Mubarak verdict date
22/02/12 20:02 from JURIST - World Legal News
[JURIST] An Egyptian judge on Wednesday scheduled the verdict date for former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive] for June 2, with Mubarak declining to address the court before the sentencing and verdi..

» Rights commission urges Ecuador president to suspend sentencing in libel suit
22/02/12 19:21 from JURIST - World Legal News
[JURIST] The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) [official website] urged Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa [official website, in Spanish; BBC profile] and his administration on Tuesday to postpone the sentencing of El Univer..

» EU to ask high court to evaluate anti-piracy agreement
22/02/12 18:47 from JURIST - World Legal News
[JURIST] The European Commission [official website] said Wednesday that they will seek guidance [press release] from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) [official website] before moving forward with the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiti..

» Rights group urges US to investigate Yemen ex-president Saleh
22/02/12 18:05 from JURIST - World Legal News
[JURIST] The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) [advocacy website] sent a letter [text, PDF] to US officials Tuesday urging an investigation into the crackdown against protesters by forces loyal to former Yemeni president Ali ..

» Journalist rights group concerned about press freedom
22/02/12 17:53 from JURIST - World Legal News
[JURIST] The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) [advocacy website] has released its annual Attacks on the Press report [text], expressing concern about increased censorship of journalists worldwide in 2011. The CPJ criticized the growin..

» West Africa stability threatened by organized crime, drug trafficking: UN
22/02/12 17:07 from JURIST - World Legal News
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] called Tuesday for an increase in efforts to curb transnational organized crime, drug trafficking and piracy in West Africa. In an address [UN News Centre report] to the UN Securi..

» Maldives president orders probe into violence accompanying rise to power
22/02/12 16:33 from JURIST - World Legal News
[JURIST] Maldives President Mohammed Waheed Hassan [official profile] appointed a commission on Wednesday to investigate the violence that accompanied his rise to power. Hassan assumed power of Maldives when former president Mohamed Nasheed..

» Egypt court rules parliamentary election process unconstitutional
22/02/12 16:33 from JURIST - World Legal News
[JURIST] The High Administrative Court of Egypt [JURIST news archive] ruled Monday that the voting system used in the recent parliamentary election was unconstitutional. The election was held over three stages from late November to January,..

» Cherie Booth launches legal action against NoW phone-hacker
22/02/12 16:30 from The Lawyer - Latest News
Matrix Chambers founder Cherie Booth QC is suing private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and News Group Newspapers.

» Legal bodies team up to launch Institute of Family Law Arbitrators
22/02/12 16:19 from The Lawyer - Latest News
A group of legal associations have launched a landmark scheme to enable the resolution of family disputes through arbitration, it was announced today.

» China's Zhong Lun W&D signs strategic alliance with City firm DKLM
22/02/12 15:50 from The Lawyer - Latest News
Zhong Lun W&D has inked a strategic alliance with 30-lawyer City firm DKLM as it endeavours to maintain its London presence following the recent departure of its nine-member City team.

» Ex-Macfarlanes partner freed one month into drink-driving sentence
22/02/12 15:20 from The Lawyer - Latest News
A former Macfarlanes partner has been freed from jail a month into his one-year sentence for drink-driving.

» Eversheds reveals 100 per cent retention rate
22/02/12 15:09 from The Lawyer - Latest News
Eversheds has posted a 100 per cent newly qualified (NQ) retention rate for its spring 2012 intake.

» Covington & Burling posts positive 2011 financials
22/02/12 14:53 from The Lawyer - Latest News
Covington & Burling is the latest US firm to show recovery from the slump, revealing an increase in revenue and average profits for 2011.

» DC Circuit affirms dismissal of Guantanamo detainee wrongful death suit
22/02/12 14:42 from JURIST - World Legal News
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Tuesday affirmed [opinion, PDF] the dismissal of wrongful death claims by the families of two former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] detainees,..

» Allen & Overy, Cleary and White & Case lead on £110bn Greek bailout
22/02/12 12:28 from The Lawyer - Latest News
Allen & Overy (A&O), Cleary Gottleib Steen & Hamilton and White & Case all took roles advising on Greece’s £110bn bailout.

» Israel to release Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike
22/02/12 12:07 from JURIST - World Legal News
[JURIST] A Palestinian held without trial ended his 66-day hunger strike on Tuesday after Israeli authorities announced his release as part of a deal that avoids judicial review of the Israeli detention policy. The prisoner, Khader Adnan, i..

» Freshfields, Hogan Lovells and SJ Berwin act on Westfield shopping mall deal
22/02/12 11:58 from The Lawyer - Latest News
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells and SJ Berwin won mandates on Westfield’s sale of its share of three non-core shopping centres to Hermes Real Estate, in which the property fund manager acquired Westfield’s half share in the £4..

» Court unanimously rejects Occupy LSX appeal
22/02/12 11:47 from The Lawyer - Latest News
The Court of Appeal has refused protestors camped outside London’s St Paul’s Cathedral  permission to appeal Mr Justice Lindblom’s ruling that they could be removed from the site.

» Squire Sanders launches international shipping team in London 
22/02/12 11:30 from The Lawyer - Latest News
Squire Sanders is to launch a shipping team in London following the hire of three partners.

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