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December 01, 2003 |

Snared By SOX

Aformer partner at Ernst Young, L.L.P., is one of the first individuals to be charged with obstruction of justice under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Federal prosecutors claim that accountant Thomas Trauger ordered documents to be altered for a client who was under investigation by securities regulators.
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April 19, 2011 |

Getting to Know Us: Meet the Copy Desk!

Part 2 of a series: The Editorial Department of the Legal is relatively small, but each person plays an integral role. Just as we want to know our audience as best we can, we want you to get to know us. Today: Meet the editors on the copy desk!
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The Staff Lawyer Conundrum: New Suit by Former Covington Lawyer Shows Complications of Associate Tiers
Publication Date: 2009-02-26
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Yolanda Young claims Covington & Burling discriminated against her because she's African American. Covington says Young fundamentally misunderstood the difference between staff attorneys and regular lawyers at the firm. And therein lies peril for the increasing number of firms that employ different tiers of associates.

November 04, 2008 |

United States v. Hamad Ali et al.

Money Reporting Evader's Claim of Law's Vagueness Rejected in Denial of Dismissal, Acquittal, or New Trial
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September 08, 2004 |

Bad Lawyering Began and Ended Cipel's Case Against McGreevey

For 18 days former gubernatorial aide Golan Cipel and his lawyers threatened to sue New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey for sexual harassment. Throughout the standoff, the governor's lawyers practically dared Cipel to file, accusing him and his legal team of being shakedown artists without a case. In the end, Cipel and his lawyers blinked. One federal law-enforcement official called Cipel's camp "a strange cast of characters," and their legal posturing "a blur of indecisiveness."
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October 20, 2008 |

Murderer Seeks Habeas, Claiming Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

During an emotional three-day hearing, Susan L. Wright &#151 convicted of murdering her husband Jeffrey Wright &#151 heard one of the attorneys who defended her during her 2004 trial testify why he didn't call some witnesses who Wright alleges might have helped her win an acquittal or a lesser sentence.
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June 20, 2013 |

How to Win a Negotiation

The key to getting your opponent to do something that is in your best interest is persuading your opponent that accepting your proposition is in their best interest. This is true no matter what you are negotiating.
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July 26, 2005 |

Blogs Make for Nasty Times in Workplace

According to one PR firm, 20,000 new blogs are created in the U.S. every day. But the blogging phenomenon is new enough that most companies have not established employee policies on the issue.
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January 02, 2013 |

Municipalities have much to address with digital billboards

Local governments must consider whether the evolution of sign technology will hurt or help their communities, writes Susan L. Trevarthen of Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske.
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June 10, 2005 |

Arbitration

Samuel Estreicher, the Dwight D. Opperman Professor Law at New York University School of Law and of counsel to Jones Day, and Steven C. Bennett, a partner at Jones Day, write that since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 decision in Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle, inclusion of an express waiver of the right to pursue class or collective action claims should be considered as a possible component of an employment arbitration program.
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