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January 28, 2010 |

A Long Leash for Lawyers in Federal Proposition 8 Trial

It was to be a theatrical scene in a trial filled with them: San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, a key same-sex marriage backer looking to run for mayor, gently leading San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders through emotional testimony about his conversion from gay-marriage opponent to supporter after his daughter came out to him as a lesbian.
4 minute read
June 15, 2009 |

Kirkland expands use of special fee structures

In an effort to keep cash-strapped clients in the fold, Kirkland & Ellis is expanding its use of alternative-fee arrangements — discounting rates and extracting promises of future work from corporate players. The firm says it has given away more than $100 million worth of billable hours in the past three years, but it hopes to make the revenue back through follow-up work from those clients. Reed Oslan, who is leading the firm's alternative-billing efforts, says "it's been a mutually successful program for both the clients and the firm."
7 minute read
March 23, 2005 |

Court Readies for Biggest Copyright Fight Since the VCR

The most important copyright challenge in decades will unfold in the U.S. Supreme Court next week with potentially enormous damages and the future of Internet innovation at stake. Twenty-one years ago, the high court held that the maker, distributor and sellers of the Betamax videocassette recorder were not liable if users infringed copyrights. The justices next week face a similar question, but the file sharing technology in MGM Studios v. Grokster is light years ahead of the videotape recorder.
8 minute read
August 23, 2013 |

Daily Decision Service Alert: Vol. 22, No. 164 - August 23, 2013

Daily decision alert.
15 minute read
November 18, 2003 |

11th Circuit: Bank Not to Blame for Theft

When someone with authority to withdraw funds from a bank account asks a bank to disburse funds, in most cases the bank has to do it, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found. That's true even if the bank suspects that the person requesting the funds might be committing fraud, even if the funds total more than $6 million, and even if that $6 million comes from what 7th Circuit Judge Richard D. Cudahy termed "a vast Ponzi scheme."
6 minute read
June 08, 2012 |

Cross-Examination: Singer Honored for Work in the GLBT Community

William S. Singer has practiced law in Somerset County for over 40 years.
6 minute read
June 14, 2010 |

The Role of Reg AB

Carla R. Walworth, a partner at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, and William A. Novomisle and Mor Wetzler, associates with the firm, write: Not surprisingly, asset-backed securities appear frequently in credit crisis-related litigation. Yet Regulation AB is virtually absent from the complaints and judicial decisions. How can litigators apply this regulation to securities claims? How should courts interpret it? What effect will amendments to the regulation have on asset-backed securities-related litigation?
11 minute read
February 04, 2008 |

Ga. legislators have Roe in their sights

Saying they are tired of winning incremental victories, Georgia abortion opponents hope to end the procedure altogether through a state constitutional amendment that would define life as beginning at conception.The measure, H.R. 536, has more than 60 sponsors, including Rep. Jerry Keen, of St. Simons Island, the second-highest-ranking Republican behind House Speaker Glenn Richardson.
6 minute read
June 06, 2005 |

Tax Tips

Sidney Kess, a CPA-attorney, writes that the IRS recently made a change in FSA compliance rules that should dramatically help make these plans more popular with employees.
4 minute read

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