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August 01, 2004 |

Fast Rise To The Top

Ivy league pedigrees, and the firm's practice is built on defending a chemical corporation and a cigarette maker. But beneath the surface, Kasowitz, Benson is radically unlike its peers. Founded 11 years ago and run under the autocratic hand of a single partner, the firm has no committees and issues no monthly reports. Its 160 lawyers do only litigation. Last year the firm's $173 million in revenue put it among the bottom half of the nation's 200 top-grossing firms. But its success in a toxic tort case
23 minute read
May 27, 2011 |

More Than 1,100 Brave Humidity for Annual Bar Association Run

On May 15, about 1,500 people participated in the 32nd Annual Philadelphia Bar Association Charity Run, which benefits the Support Center for Child Advocates.
216 minute read
December 21, 2009 |

Turkmen v. Ashcroft

Free With Registration: Circuit Rejects Post-9/11 Detainees' Claim They Were Illegally Held Longer Than Necessary
19 minute read
July 26, 2013 |

New Leaders of the Bar 2013

The 50 lawyers profiled in these pages are those that we decided — after a rigorous evaluation process — make up potent combinations of youthful exuberance and formidable accomplishment.
67 minute read
February 06, 2006 |

National Abortion Federation, plaintiffs-appellees, v. Gonzales, defendants-appellants

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act Held Unconstitutional; Failure to Include Exception for Mother's Health Cited
87 minute read
May 23, 2013 |

Summer Programs Still in a Drought

Summer hiring at New Jersey firms fell off in 2013, exhibiting no signs of a rebound from the stagnancy of the last four years.
31 minute read
November 30, 2011 |

'Immployment'

This new hybrid of immigration and employment is a product of the recent increase in the number of foreign workers in the U.S. labor force, and the emergence of legislation and case law that simultaneously implicate immigration and employment policies.
7 minute read
April 04, 2011 |

Spot Concerted-Activity Issues in the Workplace

To help managers avoid running afoul of the law, company lawyers need to know what constitutes protected concerted activity by employees under the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. §151, et seq.
4 minute read
June 27, 2005 |

Immigration Law

Stanley Mailman, of counsel to Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke, and Stephen Yale-Loehr, of counsel at True, Walsh & Miller, write that all legislation has winners and losers. From the perspective of most immigrant, civil liberties, and bar groups, the REAL ID Act of 2005 is a real disaster.
8 minute read
June 04, 2008 |

Lessons From a Hotel Lobby: Ask Wise Questions Before Terminating Employees

In 1975, Michael Maslanka dropped out of college and worked as a hotel desk clerk. Maslanka is an employment lawyer now, but he's never forgotten the lessons he's learned from his hotel boss. Here's one of the lessons that will help corporate counsel when it comes to deciding whether to impose the equivalent of capital punishment in employment: termination. It starts with what Maslanka calls "principled compassion" and the questions to ask to find if termination is warranted.
5 minute read

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