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The road map's details may not be clear yet, but the direction is: Same-sex marriage is moving closer to the U.S. Supreme Court. It may not be the recent decision in California's Proposition 8 case or even the pending challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act that entice the justices to answer the essential question: Is there a fundamental right to same-sex marriage? However, it will not be for lack of trying by those involved in the issue.
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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.
Strong demand momentum coming into 2011 caused many law firm leaders to believe that a degree of certainty had been attained. But demand withered away in the second half of the year, particularly in transactional work, resulting in a profits per equity partner increase of just 3.3 percent, versus 7.4 percent in 2010.
The European Commission's new proposal on data protection regulations highlights fundamental differences in how Europe and the U.S. think about privacy. "Every company that looks to sell to an E.U. consumer will be caught by this," says a co-head of Reed Smith's data privacy, security and management group.
Challengers to Montana's ban on corporate independent expenditures -- recently upheld by the Montana Supreme Court -- have asked Justice Anthony Kennedy to put a hold on the state court's ruling and have urged the full U.S. Supreme Court to reverse it.
Elliott Greenleaf & Siedzikowski has sued ex-partner William R. Balaban and his new firm, Stevens & Lee, for allegedly installing software on Elliott Greenleaf's computers that allowed Balaban to have continued access to the firm's files through the "cloud," in an effort to take some of the firm's clients.
