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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.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.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 vendorsThe 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.View more book results for the query "White"
Multiple Lawsuits Allege Laxative Causes Kidney Failure
A popular over-the-counter laxative used to flush out patients' bowels before procedures such as colonoscopies has caused serious kidney damage and even death, a series of lawsuits filed across the country alleges. The lawsuits target Fleet Phospho-soda, made by C.B. Fleet Co. Inc. of Lynchburg, Va. More than 50 have already been filed in at least 20 states, Stephen Foley, one of the lawyers involved in the litigation, said Thursday. Nine of them were filed this week in federal court in Minnesota.Trending Stories
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