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August 17, 2004 |

TEST - Juris Promotes Collins

Phoenix-based Lex Solutio Corp. has hired Jim O'Keefe as its vice president and general manager. He will direct sales and operations in the Phoenix market for the company. O'Keefe is formerly the national sales manager for Merrill Corp.
3 minute read
January 24, 2007 |

Businesses blast official's detainee spiel

IT'S A RARE day when law firms get called out for their pro bono work. But that's exactly what happened when Pentagon official Charles "Cully" Stimson rattled off a list of firms representing Guantanamo Bay detainees-including Atlanta firms Sutherland Asbill Brennan and Alston Bird-predicting that businesses would shun their outside counsel for making the companies foot terrorists' legal bills.
8 minute read
May 01, 1999 |

Should You Stay Or Should You Go?

Once upon a time you were coveted, wined and dined at this season's fashionable restaurant. Now you've been forgotten. The headhunters promise a return to the blissful days of yesteryear, and all it requires is one foot up on the block, one toe in the water, and a clean copy of your resume. Because the law firm relationship is like a marriage made in Las Vegas: Its long-term prospects don't look good.
6 minute read
May 30, 2001 |

Broker-Dealers: SEC Scratches Head

What is a broker-dealer? After years of studying Internet financial portals that offer financial services and products, the Securities and Exchange Commission is still looking for an answer. The portals typically contract with registered broker-dealers to advertise or market the broker-dealers' services and provide links to their Web sites, which makes the SEC nervous.
5 minute read
September 07, 2007 |

Focusing on 401(k) Fees

This column examines the Heckler decision and its implications for fiduciaries of 401(k) plans. It also briefly discusses related regulatory and legislative changes to ERISA that have recently been proposed.
10 minute read
October 11, 2010 |

"Unbelievable:" Bar Shocked by Judge's Bust for Buying Drugs With Stripper and Packing a Gun

While Judge Jack Camp was planning to buy drugs with a stripper last week, as the FBI says, he was presiding over the trial of a man accused of trying to sell marijuana.
8 minute read
April 20, 2012 |

Clemency: Justice to the Nth Degree

Ken Strutin, director of legal information services at the New York State Defenders Association, writes: 'Clemency (mercy), pardon (absolution), commutation (substitution), amnesty (forgetting), and reprieve (suspension) are drawn from the language of compassion. And today, they operate in a scheme of constitutional rights that overarches and subsumes notions of mercy and leniency.'
10 minute read
June 02, 2003 |

Paganini First Superstar, All Strings Considered

Who was the first musical superstar — the utter sensation whose novel sound, bizarre appearance, eccentric lifestyle, riveting stage presence, mammoth mass appeal, and monster showmanship forever changed our culture? Pop pundits can forever debate the question, but the mold was cast more than a century earlier by Niccolo Paganini.
9 minute read
June 02, 2008 |

Liberals Launch Firm for Constitutional Fights

A new liberal think tank and public interest law firm, founded by Douglas Kendall, will launch in D.C. on June 3, hoping to catch a progressive wave in both election politics and scholarly research on the meaning of the nation's founding document.
6 minute read
September 18, 2008 |

Baseball Licensing Scheme Safe After Circuit Rejects Antitrust Suit

Major League Baseball won a second antitrust victory when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a lower court's finding that the league's central licensing scheme for intellectual property does not violate the Sherman Act. Judges Amalya Kearse, Sonia Sotomayor and Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum turned aside a challenge by a California seller of stuffed plush animals and other collectibles, refusing to find that central scheme, in which teams share revenue equally, was "per se" illegal.
5 minute read

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