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October 11, 2011 |

Panelists Say Recession Changed Management, Training for Lawyers

The recession has pressured law firms, in-house legal departments and law schools alike to provide competent legal services at a lower cost, while also promoting work-life balance.
5 minute read
September 29, 2008 |

Appellate Courts Wrestle With Diversity Issues

Texas appellate court jurists interviewed by Texas Lawyer say that diversity among their attorney ranks is important at their courts. The percentage of minorities working as staff attorneys at the courts is lower than the percentage of minorities licensed to practice law in Texas. David Chew of El Paso's Court of Appeals says, "As the only Asian-American judge in Texas, I'm keen on it [diversity]."
25 minute read
October 09, 2007 |

Lawyers seek halt on Georgia executions

DEATH PENALTY lawyers have, in the past, unsuccessfully argued in Georgia courts that the state's lethal injection procedures are inhumane, but they hope to have better luck now as they try to stop two executions set for later this month.Standing in their way are prosecutors seeking justice for the victims, backed by aggressive enforcement of Georgia's death penalty from Attorney General Thurbert Baker's office.
3 minute read
February 27, 2006 |

Beyond Fun and Games

The chairman of a "different" sort of law firm describes how to work around a law firm's hierarchal structure.
6 minute read
April 04, 2013 |

Default Is Not Needed to Force Buy-Back of Securities, Panel Decides

Bond insurer MBIA Inc., which nearly went broke insuring mortgage-backed securities underwritten by Countrywide Financial Corporation, scored a victory on April 2 in its effort to wrest back $1.4 billion from the lender.
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March 21, 2000 |

Ramseys, Star Settle $25M Libel Suit

The Star tabloid, which falsely named JonBenet Ramsey's brother as a murder suspect, settled a $25 million libel suit with John and Patsy Ramsey for an undisclosed amount. Gerson A. Zweifach, a partner with Williams & Connolly in Washington, and L. Lin Wood Jr. of Wood & Grant in Atlanta confirmed the Ramseys and the Star settled the suit Friday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. The Ramseys "are very satisfied with the settlement," says Wood, who would not discuss the terms.
5 minute read
February 27, 2009 |

Senate to look into effectiveness of CIA methods

WASHINGTON AP - Anecdotes, news reports and even the many times "24" agent Jack Bauer has saved the country on TV aren't enough to convince the Senate Intelligence Committee that the CIA's harsh interrogation methods actually work.Lawmakers are investigating the interrogation program begun during the Bush administration in an attempt to inject fact into the public debate over those methods, Senate officials said Thursday.
3 minute read
December 05, 2011 |

Interviewing the Represented Witness

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June 05, 2013 |

Witness to fatal raid: I warned cops about kids

A man rounding up his puppies late at night says he warned Detroit police that children were inside a house they were about to raid in a hunt for a murder suspect that left a 7-year-old girl dead.
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April 07, 2006 |

'Attractive Nuisance' Theory Allowed for 17-Year-Old Plaintiffs

Although the �attractive nuisance� theory of liability is most often applied to young children who suffer injuries while trespassing, a federal judge has ruled that it may also be used by two 17-year-old boys who suffered serious burns from catenary wires when they climbed atop a parked railroad car.
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