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October 21, 2010 |

Wal-Mart janitors try again to bring class action suit over wages, hours

Just months after a federal judge decertified a class action suit charging retail giant Wal-Mart with complicity in janitorial contractors' abuses of illegal aliens, a second attempt has been filed, one that looks suspiciously like the first.
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July 07, 2010 |

Brief of the Week: Arizona's other immigration battle

An unusual alliance of business, labor and civil rights groups recently persuaded the Supreme Court to step into the seething national controversy over illegal immigrants and jobs.
4 minute read
Where Does the SEC's Cooperation Initiative Stand?
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In January 2010 the SEC predicted that its new program to encourage companies to come forward with evidence of wrongdoing would be a "game changer." But since then, the SEC has entered into just three non-prosecution agreements and one deferred prosecution agreement, according to a report by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. The agency counters that it's signed 42 individuals to cooperation agreements, and its initiative is "already paying substantial dividends."

June 03, 2009 |

Critics Pounce on Sotomayor's Reversal Rate

Reversal -- a common if sometimes painful part of life for appellate judges -- was in the spotlight last week as Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor found herself under intense scrutiny for the handful of times that the Supreme Court reversed her decisions. Only five of Sotomayor's 232 opinions for the 2nd Circuit have been reviewed by the Court, and three were overturned. Supporters and scholars say the reversal rates don't show much at all about the quality of her decisions or how the Court regards her work.
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October 17, 2013 |

Update on the Exodus From Weil in Dallas

Nearly a month after announcing they would move to Sidley Austin's Dallas office, a group of eight partners in Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Big D office changed their work address on Oct. 15. A total of nine partners, four counsel and 10 associates from Weil's Dallas office have moved to Sidley in Dallas, and another three associates will move soon, according to lawyer counts provided by Sidley.
4 minute read
March 06, 2006 |

Supreme Court pro joins Akin Gump

By Tony Mauro, Legal TimesAttorney Thomas Goldstein, who rocked the rarified world of Supreme Court advocacy by his aggressive pursuit of cases, will join the powerhouse law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld as a partner May 1. Goldstein, 35, who has argued 16 cases before the Court, currently runs his three-member Washington, D.
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August 04, 2010 |

The Poor Village People! First No More YMCA, Now the Macho Man Nears Extinction

The macho man image is dead in some workplaces. So say employment attorneys, whose reaction to the recent Jimmy Fallon sex discrimination scandal -- in which a stage manager claims that he was fired by the comedian and replaced by a less qualified woman -- was essentially, "no surprise."
4 minute read
February 10, 2003 |

Still Rising

Janet L. [email protected] a nod to the dismal economy, car dealerships and furniture stores are luring customers with zero percent financing and big rebates. Department stores like Macy's and Rich's are shifting merchandise at fire-sale prices. President Bush is talking tax cuts. But lawyers have bucked the discount trend by once again raising their rates.
4 minute read
February 01, 2006 |

Divorce Documents Can't Be Sealed

A 2004 statute allowed a Los Angeles billionaire to seal his divorce documents, but an appeal court says it's unconstitutional.
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