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- Aside from Wal-Mart, few huge cases at high court
- Hedge fund operators were lavished with gifts by Rothstein
- Jurors Improperly Shared Expertise, Bringing Reversal
- Higher threshold for false-marking claims already getting results
- The year the chickens came home to roost
- How to Earn My GC Business
- John Green on Improving the User Experience
- Recorder Roundtable: Employment Law
- Janet Day on Law Firm IT 'Nirvana'
- Big Settlement Reached With El Al in Antitrust Case Against Airlines
- Judge Sanctions Bank, Law Firm in Foreclosure Case
- Judges Halt Deportation of Mother Seeking Asylum
- Phila. Sign-Posting Ordinance Upheld
- N.Y. Judge Leaves Interpretation of Pre-nup to Singapore Court
- The Next Step for Lowering Law Firm Operating Expenses
- Historic Ties Between Countries Lead Italian Lawyers to Return to Libya
- Should Law Schools Tell Students to Go Away?
| Aside from Wal-Mart, few huge cases at high court | Top |
| The year 2011 at the U.S. Supreme Court was the calm before -- and after -- the storm. Few of the cases decided in 2011 had the incendiary impact of the Citizens United decision of 2010, or of the high-profile cases the Court will decide in 2012. For a Court that views itself as apolitical, 2012 will place the justices in the headlines plunk in the middle of a presidential campaign. | |
| Hedge fund operators were lavished with gifts by Rothstein | Top |
| Transcripts of a two-week long deposition of convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein reveal how he lavished gifts on the circle of New York hedge fund operators who were vital to his $1 billion scheme. Rothstein also counts his forging of federal judges' signatures as one of the most "disturbing things to me" out of all his crimes. | |
| Jurors Improperly Shared Expertise, Bringing Reversal | Top |
| A divided upstate New York appellate panel has overturned a sexual abuse conviction where two jurors -- one a social services caseworker and the other a substance abuse counselor -- improperly "interjected their professional knowledge into the jury deliberations." | |
| Higher threshold for false-marking claims already getting results | Top |
| A federal judge in Los Angeles has granted summary judgment in one of the first cases to address the heightened standard for false patent-marking claims under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. Robert Nissen, lead counsel for the defendant, explains how the sweeping new patent law affected his case. | |
| The year the chickens came home to roost | Top |
| Lots of news broke out about legal education during the past year. Unfortunately for law schools, much of it was bad. Here are the top 10 law school stories of 2011, including unexpected dean departures and law schools that reported falsely high credentials for incoming students. | |
| How to Earn My GC Business | Top |
| Four in-house counsel discuss how firms can get their business and what they expect from outside attorneys. | |
| John Green on Improving the User Experience | Top |
| John Green, CIO of Baker Donelson, speaks at ILTA with LTN's editor in chief, Monica Bay, about an initiative to improve the user experience at his firm by tracking and mapping every application in use using the Aternity Frontline Performance Intelligence software. | |
| Recorder Roundtable: Employment Law | Top |
| Four experts discussed recent developments in employment law at a Recorder Roundtable on Nov. 9 in San Francisco. | |
| Janet Day on Law Firm IT 'Nirvana' | Top |
| LTN reporter Evan Koblentz speaks with Berwin Leighton Paisner CIO Janet Day about her "concept of nirvana," in which the consumerization of IT in law firms -- where lawyers use and maintain their favorite devices for work -- makes the help desk unnecessary. Koblentz and Day also discuss Hewlett-Packard's move to become more consumer-focused as Apple potentially becomes more business-focused. | |
| Big Settlement Reached With El Al in Antitrust Case Against Airlines | Top |
| In the latest settlement in a massive antitrust case against major airlines that has yielded almost $500 million in settlement awards to date, freight forwarders and companies that ship goods by air won $15.8 million from El Al Israel Airlines. | |
| Judge Sanctions Bank, Law Firm in Foreclosure Case | Top |
| A New York state judge has hit HSBC Bank with a maximum $10,000 sanction and a Rochester law firm with a $5,000 sanction in a case where he already dismissed with prejudice a foreclosure action and unsuccessfully demanded that a top HSBC executive appear at a sanctions hearing. | |
| Judges Halt Deportation of Mother Seeking Asylum | Top |
| A mother facing deportation who feared she would be beaten or killed for trying to protect her grade school-age daughter from genital mutilation in Senegal has won a reprieve from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. | |
| Phila. Sign-Posting Ordinance Upheld | Top |
| A Philadelphia ordinance banning the posting of signs on city utility poles, traffic signals and trees is not unconstitutional, the 3rd Circuit has decided. The panel ruled that the ordinance was content-neutral and narrowly tailored to serve a government interest. | |
| N.Y. Judge Leaves Interpretation of Pre-nup to Singapore Court | Top |
| A New York judge has refused to consider whether the prenuptial agreement a couple signed in New York can be applied to their pending divorce in Singapore. "All of the issues related to both actions can be resolved in Singapore; the same is not true in New York," wrote Acting Supreme Court Justice Laura E. Drager. | |
| The Next Step for Lowering Law Firm Operating Expenses | Top |
| Law firms have only scratched the surface in harnessing the full potential that technology can provide, says Chadbourne COO Hal M. Stewart, who describes nine innovative applications for law firms that embrace technology as a tool to improve performance and cost efficiency. | |
| Historic Ties Between Countries Lead Italian Lawyers to Return to Libya | Top |
| The aftermath of a bloody civil war might not seem like the best time to start doing business again in Libya. But Italian lawyers were already returning to the North African nation even before former leader Muammar el-Qaddafi was captured. They intend to capitalize on the deep historic and economic ties between the two countries.Visit International News | |
| Should Law Schools Tell Students to Go Away? | Top |
| Two Yale University Law School professors have suggested that law schools pay struggling first-years to leave. At the root of the proposal is the notion that law schools do not fairly represent the past successes and failures of prior students, which prevents prospective students from making a fully informed decision to attend law school.Visit lawjobs.com News & Views | |
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