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June 28, 2012 |

Guilty verdict survives jurors' home study of indictment

A man sentenced to a year in prison for his role in a mortgage fraud was not deprived of a fair jury trial because the jurors were allowed to take copies of the indictment home during deliberations.
4 minute read
August 29, 2007 |

Recalling a stock market crisis

''THE PANIC OF 1907,'' a vivid history of a crash 100 years ago, landed on my desk just before the U.S. Federal Reserve lowered the discount rate last week. The timing was right for a book that describes how panics arise-and what it takes to arrest them. As a mountain of shaky mortgages subsided into a sinkhole this month, I had started counting Bloomberg stories in which market pros uttered the word ''panic.
3 minute read
April 02, 2013 |

Study: One in 10 federal judges took expenses-paid trips

A nonprofit group's research has restoked the debate about federal judges who accept all-expenses-paid trips for educational seminars.
4 minute read
March 13, 2013 |

More In-House Lawyers Question the Billable Hour

Veta T. Richardson, president and CEO of the Association of Corporate Counsel, responds to our article, "AFAs Trending Down in U.S. and U.K."
5 minute read
May 20, 2013 |

Drinker's Request for Depositions Denied in ExxonMobil Case

Drinker Biddle & Reath has lost a nearly five-year-long battle to obtain deposition transcripts from an environmental suit against ExxonMobil for use in defending its own clients in other litigation.
4 minute read
October 09, 2012 |

Climate Change Tort Litigation

Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided a case that could go a long way toward determining whether people and their communities can sue American energy producers over harms allegedly caused by global climate change.
8 minute read
May 16, 2013 |

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April 23, 2008 |

Language, culture barriers don't hinder TBS Latin America GC

William M. Muller has earned degrees from top universities and worked with New York law firms and as in-house counsel for one of the wealthiest families in American history, but for his current GC role, he needed one more credential. That one he learned on the job.Spanish.After a dozen years with Turner Broadcasting System Latin America Inc.
5 minute read
June 18, 2012 |

Cleaning Up City Waterways

In his Municipal Law column, Jeffrey D. Friedlander, first assistant corporation counsel of the City of New York, writes that the Law Department's Environmental Law Division, together with technical and legal staff from the DEP, the Mayor's Office of Environmental Remediation and outside counsel, are working to develop strategies to ensure that the CERCLA cleanups at Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek will be protective of human health and the environment, cost-effective, and compliant with sound scientific and legal principles
11 minute read
February 09, 2012 |

What Were They Thinking?

Passed by the first Congress in 1789 to combat, among others, acts of piracy on the high-seas, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, grants federal district courts jurisdiction over "any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States."
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