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May 29, 2006 |

What inherent power?

"Inherent" presidential authority engages a very unstable principle. There are doubtless some such powers buried in Article II. But the inherency principle is unprincipled; it conduces to opportunism, attributing powers when convenient, without roots in the text or history of Article II.
4 minute read
July 26, 1999 |

An Insanely Great Post-Associate Job

Andy Klein is an attrition poster boy: a frat boy financier, a white-shoe brewmaster, a Wall Street Webmaster and Goldman Sachs' ace in the hole. In February 1995, Mr. Klein constructed a unique public offering, with the illiquid character of a private placement, and posted it online--the first online IPO in history.
4 minute read
April 22, 2005 |

Cochran Firm Expands With New S.F. Office

Partners at one of Southern California's most successful plaintiff shops have embarked on a novel business plan: They're opening Bay Area offices for a firm whose reputation is staked on one man. And they don't seem to mind that he died last month.
4 minute read
December 22, 2003 |

'Agricultural' Designation In Growth Area Is Spot Zoning

In a decision that paves the way for development of a wide tract of Upper Merion Township land, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned the township's zoning hearing board's denial of a developer's petition to rezone a local golf course ...
5 minute read
January 28, 2005 |

Pro Bono

As 2004 drew to a close, the pro bono committee at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler discovered that the firm's 190 lawyers had achieved � perhaps for the first time anywhere � a 100 percent participation rate in its menu of volunteer projects.
3 minute read
March 28, 2011 |

IN BRIEF

A weekly roundup of Web-only stories from NLJ.com and other ALM publications.
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August 09, 1999 |

Auto Insurance Reform Sponsor Says It's Time To Scrap No-Fault

One of the prime sponsors of last year's automobile insurance reforms in New Jersey says he's now convinced it's a failure and that the only way to bring about rate reduction is to abolish the state's no-fault insurance scheme. "The 26-year-old no-fault experiment in New Jersey has been a failure and cannot be fixed or repaired," wrote Sen. John Adler. Other states have been moving away from the no-fault scheme, and only 12 other states still have it.
4 minute read
December 16, 2009 |

Bankers move to dilute overhaul at Senate

Four Wall Street lobbyists and about a dozen lawmakers huddled over eggs and bacon at Tortilla Coast restaurant on Capitol Hill on Dec. 2 to discuss legislation aimed at strengthening bank regulation. The meeting between fiscally conservative House Democrats and lobbyists for the largest U.S. financial firms turned tense, with a lot of finger-pointing, recalled one attendee.
11 minute read
November 22, 2002 |

Rolling Up the Welcome Mat

The temporary visa programs that the United States offers to foreign workers aren't being handled equitably or fairly by the government. They force workers to leave the U.S. at a moment's notice if they are laid off and are geared to treat educated tech workers with kid gloves while running roughshod over those who come to do agricultural work.
4 minute read
March 29, 2012 |

New Deals

Legal research company LexisNexis announced that it will acquire Portfolio Media, the parent of legal newswire Law360. Also, Swiss commodities company Glencore International will purchase Viterra in a $6.2 billion deal for Canada's largest grain handler.
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