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June 01, 2012 |

Fractional Equations: the Benefits of Timeshare Staffing

Kenneth Jones, COO of Xerdict Group, writes that investing in timeshare staffing can help your organization get the best talent, while controlling quality and costs.
7 minute read
February 28, 2006 |

Lawyers Rev Up for Hollywood Wiretapping Case

It took prosecutors two years to turn material from celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano's hard drive into wiretapping charges against him, litigator Terry Christensen and others. But the plaintiffs bar only needed about a week to translate the indictments into civil litigation against parties linked to Pellicano's Hollywood eavesdropping. Last week, lawyers filed a class action that, if OK'd by a court, could ultimately include thousands of people who claim their talks were tapped.
4 minute read
December 19, 2005 |

Unpublished Opinions

Unpublished state and federal court opinions.
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August 31, 2011 |

Otherwise Placid Term Is Rocked by Decision Upending Law on Remittitur

In He v. Miller , the bedrock principles that strictly limited judges substituting their judgment for the jury were shaken to their core.
43 minute read
December 31, 2008 |

California's Boxer, Feinstein to alternate recommending potential nominees for the U.S. bench

Democratic California senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein plan to alternate recommending to President-elect Barack Obama potential nominees for the federal bench, for U.S. attorneys and U.S. marshals in the state. They will use committees representing each of the state's four judicial districts to screen and interview applicants for the jobs.
4 minute read
July 02, 2008 |

Young Lawyer Takes Victory Lap After Supreme Court Gun Case Win

Supreme Court watchers questioned 37-year-old attorney Alan Gura's qualifications when he was tapped for the landmark Second Amendment case District of Columbia v. Heller. But now history will remember him as the lawyer who successfully argued that Americans have an individual right to keep and bear arms. Outside the Court last week, as gun rights advocates roared their approval, Gura smiled broadly in victory and signed copies of the Heller opinion like they just went gold.
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March 10, 2003 |

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May 11, 2009 |

Key Ruling on Timing Of SEC Enforcement Actions

Gerald J. Russello, of counsel to Bingham McCutchen, writes that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently addressed two open questions: Does the statute of limitations begin to run against the SEC when that fraud is discovered, or could have been discovered by a person exercising reasonable diligence, and, secondly, in calculating the appropriate civil penalty, can prejudgment interest be included as part of the "pecuniary gain" a defendant received as a result of the violation?
7 minute read
November 01, 2007 |

Liberalizing Use of Interrogatories in New York Actions

Daniel A. Cohen, a partner at Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, writes that CPLR 3130(1), which governs the use of interrogatories in New York civil actions, imposes two unnecessary restrictions. First, except in matrimonial actions, a party may not serve both interrogatories and a demand for bill of particulars on another party. Second, in negligence actions, a party may not both serve interrogatories on and depose another party without leave of court.
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