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Balance Among Practices Helps State Chug Through Downturn
This has been a rough year economically speaking, and the legal business has not been immune, beset by layoffs and dissolutions, as happened to Philadelphia firm Wolf Block this spring.HNBA Pursues Hispanic Supreme Court Appointment
Although at least 11 Hispanics have been named as judges in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, a Hispanic has yet to be named to the country's highest court -- an appointment many believe is long overdue. "The Supreme Court should reflect its citizenry," said Hispanic National Bar Association board member Lourdes Santiago. "Shame on the country if it doesn't happen." The HNBA wants to make sure it does.View more book results for the query "White"
Refining 'Miranda': Determining Two-Stage Interrogations
In their Second Circuit Review, Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp, members of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, review a decision handed down in December, United States v. Capers, which clarifies fundamental Second Circuit and Supreme Court precedent, providing critical guidance to district courts that apply Miranda, and has likely placed the circuit at the center of future Miranda legal discourse.McKenna Does Defense for BlackBerry, as Outage Looms
While lawyers and other BlackBerry users prepare for a possible shutdown of service, attorneys at McKenna Long & Aldridge are defending the patent case for the device's maker, Research In Motion. The McKenna team -- led by Gordon D. Giffin, an early BlackBerry user who met one of RIM's founders while U.S. ambassador to Canada -- is working with other firms as they prepare for a Feb. 24 hearing on the injunction against RIM.Hyde Amendment fee awards rarely granted
Federal judges have long held the power to force the government to pay legal bills in criminal cases where government lawyers did not play fair. But the so-called "Hyde Amendment," the mechanism to recoup the cost of a defense, is rarely successful.Trending Stories
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