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Parents Fight for the Right to Represent Their Children in Case Before High Court
On Tuesday, Sandee and Jeff Winkelman's battle against the Parma, Ohio, school district goes before the Supreme Court, where the justices will decide whether nonlawyer parents can represent their kids in disputes under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in federal court. Circuits have split on the issue, which has been hard-fought around the country by desperate parents who say there are not enough lawyers able or willing to take on their costly and complex disputes with local school districts.Saul, Duane and Fox Among NLJ 250's Leaders in Growth
With the help of significant mergers and multiple office openings, Philadelphia-based Saul Ewing Remick & Saul, Duane Morris & Heckscher and Fox Rothschild O'Brien & Frankel were among the top 10 growth leaders in the National Law Journal's annual survey of the nation's largest 250 law firms.The AIG litigation machine keeps humming as a New York federal judge declines to dismiss a class action alleging that the insurer misled shareholders about its credit default swap portfolio.
The government's case against Apple and and five of the "big six" book publishers is good news indeed for plaintiffs lawyers at Hagens Berman and Cohen Milstein as they pursue their own class action claims against the same crowd of defendants.
Associates Learn: Sometimes a Green Christmas Is Better
They don't call the Web site "Greedy Associates" for nothing. The popular bulletin board has been abuzz with talk of junior associates earning record bonuses this year. And an informal survey shows that top first- and second-year associates at Washington, D.C.'s large firms are indeed receiving bonus checks this holiday season. But who's getting $6,000 and who's getting $40,500?NSI Not Domain Name Police, Lawyers Argue
Networks Solutions Inc., the company that assigns Internet domain names, is asking a Pennsylvania federal judge to undo an order that not only required it to unregister a name that violated a trademark, but also barred it from ever assigning any similar name to anyone else. NSI lawyers claim Judge Bruce Kauffman's March 4 order in the case of Worldsport Networks Ltd. v. Artinternet S.A. unfairly converted it into an Internet police force.Applications Available for Bar Assoc. 5K
Race applications for individuals and teams are now available for the Philadelphia Bar Association's 26th annual Charity Run, which will take place on the West River Drive adjacent to the Philadelphia Art Museum on Sunday, May 15, at 8:30 a.m.State AI Legislation Is on the Move in 2024
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