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July 26, 2013 |

New Leaders of the Bar 2013

The 50 lawyers profiled in these pages are those that we decided — after a rigorous evaluation process — make up potent combinations of youthful exuberance and formidable accomplishment.
67 minute read
February 06, 2006 |

National Abortion Federation, plaintiffs-appellees, v. Gonzales, defendants-appellants

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act Held Unconstitutional; Failure to Include Exception for Mother's Health Cited
87 minute read
May 23, 2013 |

Summer Programs Still in a Drought

Summer hiring at New Jersey firms fell off in 2013, exhibiting no signs of a rebound from the stagnancy of the last four years.
31 minute read
November 30, 2011 |

'Immployment'

This new hybrid of immigration and employment is a product of the recent increase in the number of foreign workers in the U.S. labor force, and the emergence of legislation and case law that simultaneously implicate immigration and employment policies.
7 minute read
April 04, 2011 |

Spot Concerted-Activity Issues in the Workplace

To help managers avoid running afoul of the law, company lawyers need to know what constitutes protected concerted activity by employees under the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. §151, et seq.
4 minute read
June 27, 2005 |

Immigration Law

Stanley Mailman, of counsel to Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke, and Stephen Yale-Loehr, of counsel at True, Walsh & Miller, write that all legislation has winners and losers. From the perspective of most immigrant, civil liberties, and bar groups, the REAL ID Act of 2005 is a real disaster.
8 minute read
June 04, 2008 |

Lessons From a Hotel Lobby: Ask Wise Questions Before Terminating Employees

In 1975, Michael Maslanka dropped out of college and worked as a hotel desk clerk. Maslanka is an employment lawyer now, but he's never forgotten the lessons he's learned from his hotel boss. Here's one of the lessons that will help corporate counsel when it comes to deciding whether to impose the equivalent of capital punishment in employment: termination. It starts with what Maslanka calls "principled compassion" and the questions to ask to find if termination is warranted.
5 minute read
May 01, 1999 |

Killing Me Softly

Greg Aharonian is the patent community's angry middle-aged man. Every few days, he publishes the Internet Patent News Service, a free e-mail bulletin. Aharonian thinks that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is incapable of knowing what is truly inventive in software. So it issues way too many bad, overly broad software patents. And these patents -- more than 20,000 a year -- threaten to disrupt commerce by blocking competitors from promising markets.
6 minute read
June 16, 2008 |

What I Learned in a D.C. Hotel

We think we shape life. That's wrong. Life shapes us. All readers know how they first learned this. Here's my story, one that will help corporate counsel when it comes to deciding whether to impose the equivalent of capital punishment in employment: termination.
5 minute read
December 31, 2002 |

Silence Is Golden

Houston-based Vinson & Elkins and Chicago's Kirkland & Ellis both provided legal advice necessary for Enron executives to allegedly orchestrate a fraudulent scheme to enrich themselves at the expense of Enron shareholders, and both were named as defendants in the shareholders' class action. But Kirkland has been dismissed from the suit; Vinson & Elkins has not. The difference? Kirkland was able to keep quiet.
6 minute read

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