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- ABA stalls on honing law schools' jobs placements reports
- Supreme Court Will Rule on Immunity for Outside Counsel
- Sixth District Broadens Cellphone Search Authority
- Senate gets pulled into First Amendment dispute
- Deloitte Smacked with $7.6 Billion Claims Over Taylor Bean Audits
- Doug Caddell on Foley & Lardner's Freedom of Computing
- Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Jonathan Turley
- George Rudoy on Legal Technology Consolidation
- Video: Robert Peck, Appellate Lawyer of the Week
- Hedge Funds Held Not Liable for Investments With Madoff
- D.A. Seeks Ex-Associate's Extradition From Hong Kong
- Q&A: Jason Ewart of Arnold & Porter, Attorney for Troy Davis
- 1st Circuit nixes suits against lawyers and auditors of defendants in prior case
- SEC Investigating Standard & Poor's Role in Mortgage-Crisis CDO
- Improbable Chain of Events Dooms Con Ed's 9/11 Lawsuit
- Six House Democrats Press DOMA Lawyer for 'Briefing'
- Mayer Brown Knocks Out Class Action Against 'People Search Engine'
- Verdict Could Put Insurer on Hook for $80 Mil. Settlement
- Man in Divorce Seeks to Cancel Adoption of 'Companion Animal'
- Epic stakes in mortgage war
- Winston's Hurst Keeps Up Trial Winning Streak with Verdict for Abbott in Age Discrimination Case
- Judge in Napa Probate Case Questions Lawyer's Loyalty
| ABA stalls on honing law schools' jobs placements reports | Top |
| Law schools will not have to report to the American Bar Association the percentage of their 2010 graduates who landed jobs requiring bar passage or the percentage of graduates in part-time jobs. An ABA committee's finalized list of questions has prompted criticism that the organization is protecting law schools from reporting what would surely be grim statistics. | |
| Supreme Court Will Rule on Immunity for Outside Counsel | Top |
| The Supreme Court today agreed to take up Filarsky v. Delia, a California case that could determine whether private lawyers hired as outside counsel by local governments are immune from civil rights lawsuits challenging their actions. | |
| Sixth District Broadens Cellphone Search Authority | Top |
| An appeals court has taken a California Supreme Court decision a step further, giving police broader authority for warrantless cellphone searches. The court held that police properly searched a DUI arrestee's cellphone, finding information that led to the seizure of a cache of weapons. | |
| Senate gets pulled into First Amendment dispute | Top |
| The U.S. Senate making a rare exception to its policy against its employees offering testimony, allowing a member of Sen. John McCain's staff to submit a declaration in a pair of federal lawsuits in Arizona about when and where members of the public can distribute flyers on government property. | |
| Deloitte Smacked with $7.6 Billion Claims Over Taylor Bean Audits | Top |
| Steven Thomas, the ex-Sullivan & Cromwell partner who won a half-billion-dollar verdict against BDO Seidman, has taken on Deloitte & Touche, seeking $7.6 billion over claims that the company turned a "willful blind eye" to fraud at bankrupt mortgage issuer Taylor, Bean & Whitaker. | |
| Doug Caddell on Foley & Lardner's Freedom of Computing | Top |
| Doug Caddell, CIO at Foley & Lardner, speaks with LTN staff reporter Evan Koblentz at ILTA about his firm's policy of giving lawyers the freedom to buy the technology they need -- instead of dictating choices. Freedom of computing, he says, allows firms to focus more on business issues and less on infrastructure. | |
| Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Jonathan Turley | Top |
| When Jonathan Turley is not teaching at George Washington University Law School or blogging, he is a litigator whose cases can never be described as boring. In this video interview with Tony Mauro, Turley discusses his high-profile case on Utah's anti-polygamy law. | |
| George Rudoy on Legal Technology Consolidation | Top |
| George Rudoy, of HSNO (formerly of Integrated Legal Technology), speaks with LTN's Editor-in-Chief Monica Bay about the end of isolated services in law firms. Rudoy discusses the centralization of legal technology in firms looking to modernize and meet budgets across the board. | |
| Video: Robert Peck, Appellate Lawyer of the Week | Top |
| Tony Mauro talks to Robert Peck, president of the Center for Constitutional Litigation. | |
| Hedge Funds Held Not Liable for Investments With Madoff | Top |
| Hedge fund manager J. Ezra Merkin should not be held liable to his investors for investing their money in Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme, a federal judge has ruled. The case goes back to 2008, when New York Law School sued on behalf of itself and similarly situated investors. | |
| D.A. Seeks Ex-Associate's Extradition From Hong Kong | Top |
| Efforts are under way to extradite a New York lawyer arrested in Hong Kong for the theft of client escrow funds. Former Crowell & Moring associate Douglas R. Arntsen is facing a single charge of first-degree grand larceny, a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said Monday. | |
| Q&A: Jason Ewart of Arnold & Porter, Attorney for Troy Davis | Top |
| The legal team assisting Troy Davis included Jason Ewart of Arnold & Porter. Ewart, who witnessed Davis' execution, described working to exonerate a convicted killer, his thoughts on the death penalty, and the feelings stirred up by the death of a man he considered more than a client. | |
| 1st Circuit nixes suits against lawyers and auditors of defendants in prior case | Top |
| Plaintiffs may not proceed with class actions against lawyers and auditors who worked for the defendants in an earlier class action, the 1st Circuit has ruled. The ruling in Zimmerman v. Epstein Becker & Green and Zimmerman v. BDO Seidman LLP, affirmed a dismissal by a Massachusetts federal judge. | |
| SEC Investigating Standard & Poor's Role in Mortgage-Crisis CDO | Top |
| On Monday, Standard & Poor's parent company McGraw-Hill reported its receipt of a Wells notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, warning of potential civil charges against the ratings agency for its role in the recent mortgage crisis. | |
| Improbable Chain of Events Dooms Con Ed's 9/11 Lawsuit | Top |
| The chain of events that led to the destruction of 7 World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, was "much too improbable to be consistent with any duty" toward Con Edison by builder and developer Larry Silverstein and Citigroup, a federal judge has ruled, dismissing the utility's negligence claims. | |
| Six House Democrats Press DOMA Lawyer for 'Briefing' | Top |
| Some House Democrats took a verbal shot Monday at Paul Clement over the Defense of Marriage Act. Writing to the House Speaker that they are entitled to a briefing, the Democrats indicated that outside counsel's pleadings "appear to fall short" of providing objective representation that is "legally supportable." | |
| Mayer Brown Knocks Out Class Action Against 'People Search Engine' | Top |
| A federal judge has dismissed a purported class action against Spokeo, which collects and publishes personal information about people online. At issue was how much harm consumers have to show before they can sue over unauthorized and possibly inaccurate information about them. | |
| Verdict Could Put Insurer on Hook for $80 Mil. Settlement | Top |
| A Pennsylvania jury has found an $80 million global settlement of more than 500 claims relating to the release of radiation at two nuclear plants was fair and reasonable, paving the way for the insurance company to have to cover the settlement paid out by two companies that ran the plants. | |
| Man in Divorce Seeks to Cancel Adoption of 'Companion Animal' | Top |
| In the language of the law, Mo is a "chattel." But to Neil Walash the English bulldog is a "beloved" companion. Walash claims that his wife, who is now divorcing him, maliciously arranged the adoption of the dog without telling him. And he's filed to get the dog back. | |
| Epic stakes in mortgage war | Top |
| The Federal Housing Finance Agency's lawsuits against 18 of the world's largest financial institutions on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may come down to one issue: disclosure. Did the banks omit or misstate material information about the securities they sold to Fannie and Freddie? | |
| Winston's Hurst Keeps Up Trial Winning Streak with Verdict for Abbott in Age Discrimination Case | Top |
| In an age discrimination case that had previously produced a $25.7 million verdict, James Hurst of Winston & Strawn convinced a jury in a retrial to vote 8-0 for his client, Abbott Laboratories, extending his trial winning streak to 7-0 over just the last 17 months. | |
| Judge in Napa Probate Case Questions Lawyer's Loyalty | Top |
| A sordid family legal drama set among California's Napa Valley vineyards has ended, at least for now, with a judge handing a major victory to a single heiress while scolding a trusts and estate attorney for questionable professional conduct. | |
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