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July 28, 2004 |

For Greenland's Prisoners, it's candlelight and imported cheese

William W. BedsworthYears ago, I wrote a column in which I derided something the California Legislature had done, complaining that they "turn out laws with the same vapid rapidity with which Famous Amos turns out cookies." It was the best column I ever wrote. Granted, this is not an exceptionally difficult accolade to earn.
7 minute read
December 17, 2008 |

GOP signals rough path to AG for Holder

The disagreement on the Senate floor last week was ostensibly over timing.While congressional leaders negotiated behind closed doors over proposed loans to Detroit automakers, several Republicans took the floor Wednesday and Thursday to discuss Covington Burling's Eric Holder Jr. They called for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
6 minute read
December 04, 2006 |

President's Game? History Refutes Claims to Unlimited Power Over Foreign Affairs

Louis Fisher warns that legal history is being distorted to support unchecked presidential power in foreign affairs.
8 minute read
July 24, 2006 |

Colleagues Remember Fulbright Partner's Dedication to Public Service

The Texas legal community was saddened and shaken by the death last week of Michael Shelby, a respected former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas who, after years of public service, had recently left his post to become a litigation partner in Fulbright & Jaworski. "Mike Shelby could talk for an hour on any topic, and if he knew something about it, he could talk for two hours," says Harris County DA Chuck Rosenthal. Shelby suffered from bone cancer that had recently recurred, his friends say.
6 minute read
November 23, 2004 |

'Crawford': Bright-Line Rule on Confrontation in Sex Assault Trials

Paul DerOhannesian II, a partner at DerOhannesian & DerOhannesian, writes that trial practitioners must beware of the pitfalls in objecting to hearsay statements. A general hearsay objection, an evidentiary objection, does not preserve for appellate review an objection based on the Confrontation Clause.
10 minute read
Law Journal Press | Digital Book White Collar Crime: Business and Regulatory Offenses Authors: Otto G. Obermaier, Robert G. Morvillo (deceased), Robert J. Anello, Barry A. Bohrer View this Book

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April 19, 2010 |

Breyer and Thomas Discuss High Court Docket, Clerks, Cameras

If you're mystified about why the Supreme Court hears so few cases these days - 75 or so annually, compared to twice that number 25 years ago ? Justice Stephen Breyer says, check back a few years from now.
4 minute read
September 28, 2007 |

Last Man Standing: Case Against Tax Lawyer Who Worked for KPMG Proceeds

In July, when Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that prosecutors had bullied KPMG over legal fees, the government's case against the accounting firm imploded, but the case against tax lawyer Raymond "R.J." Ruble may just be heating up. Ruble, a former partner at Brown & Wood (now Sidley Austin), faces trial in October on 43 counts of tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the IRS. He allegedly worked with KPMG to cook up and sell illegal tax shelters, and hid a portion of his earnings from his firm and the feds.
4 minute read
April 10, 2006 |

UMDNJ Federal Monitor Describes An Ingrained Culture of Patronage

Last Monday, Herbert Stern offered ample justification for the broad mandate U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie gave him to monitor the scandalized University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Stern gave a vivid account of how the school did business: patronage-based hiring, expense-account abuse and no-bid contracts to politically connected vendors
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October 18, 2007 |

The Short of It: Thelen Rebrands Itself

Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner had well-laid plans to rechristen itself with the shorter and catchier "Thelen" but was held up by a Korean cybersquatter. The marketing move, which launched Monday, was threatened by the distant owner of the "thelen.com" domain name. But if there's one thing a Web entrepreneur should know, it's this: Don't register a domain name of a 600-lawyer law firm and expect nothing to happen. "We did get pretty heavy-handed with him," says Thelen partner Robert Weikert.
4 minute read

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