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2 May 2008, 5:14 am
Republicans, eager to fill some key appeals court vacancies with conservatives before the end of President Bush's term are stepping up the pressure on Patrick Leahy, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.Last month, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) secured a pledge from Senate chief Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to send three circuit court nominees to the Senate floor for a vote by Memorial Day.Ah, but which three nominees? [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 12:04 pm
Chamber's ranking of state court systems for business - Greensboro lawyer Mack Sperling of Brooks Pierce in his blog, the North Carolina Business Litigation Report JD Supra contributors featured in the Sunday New York Times - Aviva Cuyler of JD Supra in the legal resource site's companion blog, JD Scoop Kudos to Freeport - Texas lawyer Hunter Biederman in his Frisco DWI Lawyer & Attorney Blog Wearing the bulls-eye: the compliance officer as line supervisor - Minneapolis… [read post]
21 Apr 2008, 6:21 am
Earlier this month, a suit was filed in Harris County against Howrey LLP and a former partner of the firm for legal malpractice. [read post]
17 Apr 2008, 6:41 pm
Stevens, 87, wrote that while he felt bound by precedent to uphold the constitutionality of Kentucky’s death penalty procedures, he wished to abolish the death penalty once and for all, a position that Justice Harry Blackmun famously took at the end of his career. [read post]
17 Apr 2008, 2:21 am
., Hepburn and Griffin 2004; Heilbrun, Maguth Nezu, Keeney, Chung, and Wasserman 1998; Meloy 2005; Center for Sex Offender Management 2001), a growing body of academic literature suggests--with some consistency--that reoffending rates are generally low for this type of offender (Petrunik 2003).Indeed, Andrew Harris and Karl Hanson (2004), in their review of a substantial number of studies using a range of different types of samples (typically those incarcerated or found guilty of a sex… [read post]
16 Apr 2008, 5:41 am
– description of the “Brain Room” in Steven Vander Ark’s “Harry Potter Lexicon” NEW YORK — How much does the Harry Potter Lexicon add to the universe of knowledge about Harry Potter? [read post]
16 Apr 2008, 5:41 am
This just in from Law Blogger Dan Slater, who once again is in the gallery over at the Harry Potter trial in Lower Manhattan. [read post]
13 Apr 2008, 11:00 pm
While the remark, which elicited laughs from the gallery, had no bearing on the copyright issues, such as the fair-use doctrine, which lie at the heart of the case, it was an effective bit of stagecraft that initially framed Rapoport along with the author of the Harry Potter Lexicon, Steven Vander Ark, as mere second comers attempting to jump on the bandwagon of the Harry Potter phenomenon. [read post]
7 Mar 2008, 6:17 am
Adds her attorney, Michael Harris: "Toby is lucky not to be lying in a ditch in Appalachia with a bullet in her head. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 8:27 pm
And then there's Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who noted in a 1993 case that the special treatment of mortgages was specifically intended to encourage lending to prospective homeowners. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 12:01 pm
Joining the Times in 1968, she began covering the Court in 1978, making her career there longer than any of the current justices except John Paul Stevens, who came to the Court in 1975. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 10:08 am
I woke up today and opened my Wall Street Journal. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 11:51 am
Written by Christopher Bahn, Steven Hyden, Josh Modell, Noel Murray, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias, David Wolinsky The knights who say “nerd” 1. [read post]
3 Feb 2008, 10:32 am
Nevada Supreme Court: Seat D - Mark Gibbons, Thomas Christensen Seat B - Don Chairez, Deborah Schumacher, Mary "Kris" Pickering, Nancy Allf Clark County District Court Judges Uncontested District Court Dept. 1 - Ken Cory District Court Dept. 2 - Valorie Vega District Court Dept. 3 - Douglas Herndon District Court Dept. 4 - Kathy Hardcastle District Court Dept. 5 - Jackie Glass District Court Dept. 9 - Jennifer Togliatti District Court Dept. 11 - Betsy Gonzalez District Court Dept. 13 -… [read post]
6 Jan 2008, 11:40 am
R Pamela Lawson, Family Court Dept. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 7:00 am
By Charles Beach, Myer Sankary, Steven Schwaber, Andrew Simpson, & Harry Steinmetz In this issue of Fat Friday, Steven Schwaber lays down the gauntlet on the feisty debate regarding biglaw associate salaries and the role of general counsel,  Andrew Simpson provides an interesting spin on a previous post about the litigation risks of voicemail, Myer Sankary reviews the State Bar of California's online MCLE programs and shares anecdotal evidence to… [read post]