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March 26, 2010 |

Indian Lawyers Group Seeks to Prohibit Activities of Foreign Law Firms

A group of lawyers in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu is seeking government action against 31 foreign law firms and a legal process outsourcing company for illegally practicing law "out of five-star hotels and business centers." According to Indian legal blog Bar and Bench, a petition for a writ compelling the government to act against foreign lawyers was filed in the Madras High Court by lawyer A. K. Balaji on behalf of a group called the Association of Indian Lawyers.
4 minute read
September 09, 2004 |

Questionable Lawyering Began, Ended McGreevey Case

For 18 days, former gubernatorial aide Golan Cipel and his lawyers threatened to sue New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey for sexual harassment. Throughout the standoff, the governor's lawyers practically dared Cipel to file, accusing him and his legal team of being shakedown artists without a case.
8 minute read
November 29, 2010 |

Enact the DREAM Act

The children of illegal immigrants should not suffer for their parents' 'sins'; they deserve a path to permanent residency.
4 minute read
October 06, 2000 |

Not Every Gopher Is a Blond

Humorists such as Garrison Keillor may portray Minnesota's residents as a homogeneous group of Lutherans sitting around ice fishing, but the state's Latino population has doubled in each of the last two decades. Salvador M. Rosas and Arcelia Romo-Perez, two young lawyers working in legal services, helped form Centro Legal, Inc. in 1981, to address the developing legal needs of the growing population.
6 minute read
February 26, 2010 |

Local Firms Lending Hand to Haiti Relief Efforts

Haiti remains in a state of turmoil more than a month after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake ripped the region apart. Though the daily news coverage has died down, relief efforts of area law firms continue through donations and pro bono efforts.
5 minute read
January 07, 2004 |

Feds File Sealed Response in Secrecy Case

Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson responded this week to Mohamed Kamel Bellahouel's request that the U.S. Supreme Court review whether the government or lower courts acted improperly by secretly imprisoning him without criminal charges and keeping his habeas corpus case sealed. But Olson's response was itself filed under seal. The new layer of secrecy was applied just as Bellahouel's case prompted a response from national media and legal groups.
5 minute read
December 28, 2006 |

11th Circuit overturns denial of asylum

A FEDERAL APPEALS court took the unusual step Thursday of overriding the Board of Immigration Appeals, which denied asylum to a Colombian activist who was kidnapped, beaten and threatened by a leftist guerrilla group. A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that Javier Mauricio Martinez Ruiz's "kidnapping, physical assaults and threatening phone calls" rise to the level of persecution.
7 minute read
January 17, 2006 |

Bimbo GC: It's Not What You Think

Since Claudia Coscia became the first GC for Fort Worth-based Bimbo Bakeries USA in 1998, she has reduced the company's legal costs by more than 50 percent. She says the savings came from a combination of tactics, including doing more work in-house, closer management of outside counsel and negotiation of fixed-fee schedules. And for the record, the name of the company -- the U.S. operation of a Mexico City-based entity -- comes from a combination of "bambino" and "Bambi."
10 minute read
May 01, 2006 |

Russian �migr� Lives American Dream as Litigation Partner

Seventeen years ago, Alexander Shaknes came to New York City from the former Soviet Union and barely spoke English. "I had no idea what lawyers even do," he says. Nine years later, he became the youngest member of the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz litigation team. Now a partner at DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, Shaknes recently defended Qualcomm in a $400 million international lawsuit. It's a far cry for someone who grew up in an environment with virtually no justice system, let alone litigation.
4 minute read

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