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16 Jul 9:12 pm
Noted Princeton ethicist Peter Singer has a piece in the upcoming Sunday NYT Magazine arguing that health-care rationing is both necessary and
desirable. His argument is that everyone has a price on the extension of ... life year] is not a perfect measure of the good obtained by health care, but its defenders can support it in
the same way that Winston Churchill defended democracy as a form of government: it is the worst method of allocating health care, except for
all the others." What he and the ...
3 Sep 1:59 pm
... an Associate Professor of Children's Literature and Culture in the Department of Humanities at York University, Toronto, Canada. Below is information from Peter's faculty Website (www.yorku.ca/laps/) in relation to a conference paper he presented about teen "sexting" and the ... desire to rehabilitate into the
world of industry, all those who have paid their dues in the hard coinage of punishment." - Winston Churchill (United States Constitution) ©
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30 Oct, 2007 10:06 am
... investigative piece on the case from 2004. Back when the indictment was handed down, we asked White Collar CrimeProf blogger Peter Henning
about how common this was: There are a few corruption cases over time involving assistant U.S. Attorneys, but nothing that I ... is now a criminal-defense lawyer - here's his Web
site. Representing him in the case is William Sullivan at Winston & Strawn. Sulllivan reportedly told the jury that his client, who didn't
take the stand, was an overworked hero ...
2 May, 2007 10:00 am
The Conrad Black trial is trudging along rather quietly in the Windy City. But yesterday's appearance on the witness stand of James Thompson - former Illinois governor and chairman of
Winston & Strawn - certainly caught our attention. Quick background: Conrad Black and three others are on trial for looting their company,
Hollinger, of some $80 million; Thompson sat on the board. Here are stories from Bloomberg and the Chicago Tribune. Thompson told jurors that because he "skimmed'' Hollinger ...
6 Jun, 2007 11:48 am
... . In its motion, it quotes the funds private-placement memorandum, which read in big bold letters: THE FUND IS A SPECULATIVE INVESTMENT THAT INVOLVES RISK, INCLUDING THE RISK OF
LOSING ALL OR SUBSTANTIALLY ALL OF THE AMOUNT INVESTED. Webb, chairman of Winston & Strawn, said in a statement that he hopes "SDCERA will
now withdraw its suit and stop wasting the resources of its 33,000 county employees and pensioners on this misguided and ill-fated litigation." Boies, of Boies, Schiller & ...
8 Nov, 2007 10:49 am
... Paul Hastings, has said he'll fight the charges. So the parlor game right now is handicapping how this indictment will complicate matters for Giuliani's presidential run. Here are
stories on that from the NYT and WSJ. Yesterday at a campaign stop in Iowa (where he appeared with Winston & Strawn big wig Dan Webb),
Giuliani sidestepped the question. Said Rudy: "A lot of public comment about it is inconsistent with its getting resolved in the right way in the courts." But he did say: "I made a ...
12 Apr, 2008 4:35 pm
... former Robinson teammate Ali Sayed to remove the inflammatory statement for fear of it being taken seriously. Caparelli barely gave his removed musing another thought. Others did. A
concerned Wake Forest student already had alerted campus police. When Caparelli flew to Winston-Salem, N.C., the next day, he soon learned that
impulsive boasts of pending campus violence, even ones you have no intention of carrying out, can result in a five-hour ride back to Virginia in the back seat of an unmarked ...
30 Oct, 2007 10:06 am
... , we've received scores of nominations from Law Blog readers. Just yesterday, a reader nominated Dorsey & Whitney's Peter Sipkins to
the Law Blog Bow Tie Club. And earlier this month, friends of Joel Rubin (pictured) made the bold move ... get this sentence from recent Legal Times story on DLA Piper. The firm, says
the article, recently "landed a private equity group from Winston & Strawn in Chicago last month, and Roger Meltzer, a corporate attorney
and an original member of the WSJ Law Blog ...
9 Aug, 2007 7:49 am
... YouTube, Veoh isn't waiting to be sued by content owners. Yesterday, TechCrunch reported that Veoh filed a lawsuit against Universal Music seeking a declaratory injunction to bar
Universal from taking legal action. (Click here for the complaint, filed by Winston & Strawn.) Veoh said in a press release that they acted
based on "unreasonable threats" from Universal and filed the lawsuit seeking a ruling that they're protected under the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA. (Click here and here ...
27 Sep, 2007 11:48 am
... form also revealed a few rather sexy assignments in his brief recent stint Patterson. He was hired by Goldman Sachs, the estate of Kenneth Lay and Linda Lay to mediate a financial
dispute. Other Mukasey clients: Sothebys and Winston & Strawn. Also of interest: His separation agreement with Patterson Belknap, which
will continue to pay him from his capital account as well as undistributed partnership income until about September 2008, receiving money in five equal installments. As AG he ...
1 Oct, 2007 6:00 am
... t care about a lot of things. Just because it matters to you doesn't mean it matters to them. You have to find out what they do care about, probably by asking them, and you have to
address it. The very best legal ad I ever saw was from Winston & Strawn, for their litigation department, and it does a brilliant job of
addressing what litigation clients really care about: "Will they win if we go to court?" "Are they easy to work with, or are they jerks?" Principle Three: Design Matters. A Lot. ...
13 Nov, 2007 12:17 pm
Hedge fund Amaranth blew up last fall after losing $6.4 billion in the worst debacle in the industrys history. At the time, we noted that lawsuits could be expected to follow. In June
the San Diego County Employees Retirement Association, or SDCERA sued Amaranth and its CEO Nick Maounis. Amaranth and Maounis are fighting the suit, and hired to defend them David Boies
(pictured, right) and Dan Webb (pictured, middle), two of the countrys most highly regarded litigators. Now Amaranth has gone ...
12 Jun, 2008 6:09 pm
... after Schering-Plough's Vytoringate, here comes Pfizer's Chantixgate, unfolding at a rapid pace, day-by-day: According to ABC News, Dr. John Spangler, director of Tobacco
Intervention Programs at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., questions the safety of Chantix. Spangler is a
contributor to ABCNews.com. Spangler as early as May 2007 raised questions over the adequacy of the long-term safety of Chantix. He raised concerns about heart and vision effects in ...
25 Jun, 2008 5:39 pm
... sector. The buildup of incompetent boards and managers is the result of poor corporate governance. Poor corporate governance now threatens more than just potential shareholder
value; it threatens this country's very economic survival. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, "democracy might not be the greatest system there
is but it is the greatest system mankind has invented so far." Many American corporations are dysfunctional because corporate democracy is a myth in the United States. They run like ...
27 Feb, 2004 4:56 pm
Peter Odighizuwa, a former law student who gunned down three people in a shooting rampage in January 2002 at the Appalachian School of Law,
today pled guilty to the killings, according to AP. Odighizuwa was sentenced to six life terms plus 28 years following the plea, which was made by arrangement with the Buchanan County
prosecution, who otherwise would have sought the death penalty. Odighizua
10 Mar 6:30 am
... the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The settlement with the EEOC requires Burger King to review their anti-sexual harassment policy with all new employees and provide anti-harassment
training to all managers and shift coordinators at the Clemmons restaurant and at the Winston-Salem Burger King where Joyner's general manager
was transferred. This isn't the first time Burger King has settled sexual harassment lawsuits. According to an EEOC press release dated December 6, 2004, Burger King paid $400,000 to
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15 May 5:18 am
... have to repeat this process several times to remove all the chaff. But boy, does it pay off. Your writing will be way, way better, it will have much more impact on the reader, and
you will train yourself, over time, to write more simply. Winston Churchill understood this. I have always loved his description of how he
learned to write simply and well as a schoolboy: By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the ...
31 Oct, 2008 12:26 pm
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(Patently-O) (Patent Prospector) ... that would offer would-be pirates with legal alternative when they attempt to download content (Ars Technica) Harry Winston loses domain name dispute over Hairywinston.com: Harry Winston ... IP ADR Blog) (Techdirt) (Managing
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4 Feb, 2007 11:59 pm
... line up on one side or the other, I would have to line up with ... Sullivan Cromwell." Thelen Reid Group Joins Winston & Strawn New
York Law Journal Winston ... litigation partners, Thomas P. Lane and Shari Markowitz Savitt, are also moving to Winston, as is corporate lawyer H. Joseph Mello and four associates. Defense Official Quits ... ' Comment The Recorder Retired San Joaquin County, Calif.,
Superior Court Judge Peter Saiers sounded almost smug upon learning three appellate justices had issued ...
25 Oct, 2007 1:08 am
... to illegally using a hidden video camera to spy on female co-workers as they changed clothes in their offices. Peter Barta used a camera
hidden in a clock to videotape five co-workers in the public defense agency's Manhattan offices, recording at ... Ethics Rule 1.4, lawyers must keep clients "reasonably informed about
the status of a matter." Attorney Arthur Burger points to Winston Churchill's "finest hour" speech discussing the defeat of the French army by
the Germans. Any bad news a lawyer ...
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