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Claimed 'Illegal Purpose' Dooms Enforcement of Pact Between Lawyer and Investigator
An attorney who allegedly hired an investigator to locate and solicit accident victims, then failed to pay the investigator's finder's fee, has successfully moved to dismiss the investigator's suit for non-payment on the grounds of illegality. In dismissing the suit, a New York appellate panel said the agreement between an attorney and a nonlawyer to split fees was illegal, and held that "a party to an illegal contract cannot ask a court of law to help him carry out his illegal object."Daily Decision Service Alert: Vol. 19, No. 46 - March 10 2010
Daily decision alert.The Fight Within: Equality in the Justice Department
Since its creation in 1957, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has pushed to deliver the racial equality promised by landmark civil rights legislation. But 46 years later, the aims of the civil rights movement are less clear-cut, and so is the mission of the lawyers of the Civil Rights Division. As the nation confronts increasingly complex issues of race and diversity, the division itself has become a microcosm of the ideological conflicts wrenching the country as a whole.People, respondent v. Jonathan Jenkins, appellant
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