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To Land and Keep Good Clients, Firms Need to Think Like Clients
Lawyers like Kevin M. O'Hagan of O'Hagan Smith & Amundsen in Chicago give rainmaking pointers during a seminar at American Bar Association annual meeting, called "A View from the Inside: A Roundtable on Developing and Maintaining Client Relationships." At least 10 seminars scheduled during the ABA's week-long annual meeting in Atlanta deal with rainmaking and with keeping clients happy.Atlanta Falcons Trying to Recover Millions in Bonuses Paid to Vick
How long Michael Vick spends in prison will be determined by federal prosecutors, his criminal defense team and a U.S. District Court judge, but what happens to millions of Vick's bonuses likely will be determined by lawyers for the Atlanta Falcons, the NFL Players Association, the NFL Management Council and possibly both an arbitrator and special master. They will wrestle with the esoteric law of the NFL to find out how much of the $37 million the Falcons paid to their quarterback the team can recover.Roberts Court Takes A Pro-Business Stance
For years, if not decades, leading U.S. Chamber of Commerce lawyer Robin Conrad has told anyone who will listen that a conservative U.S. Supreme Court is not always a pro-business Supreme Court. But now, at the end of a course-changing, gut-wrenching term littered with heated 5-4 decisions, one bit of clarity is shining through: the Roberts Court, and especially its newest member, Samuel Alito Jr., are both very conservative and very pro-business, more so than any Supreme Court in decades.Deloitte's lawyers at Sidley Austin persuaded a judge in Manhattan that their client was duped like everyone else by alleged fraud at Longtop Financial, the U.S.-listed Chinese software company that collapsed in 2011 under the weight of a massive accounting scandal.
After Google took home a defense verdict Wednesday in the patent phase of a blockbuster trial, the jury foreman said Oracle's lawyers at Morrison & Foerster and Boies Schiller had gained few supporters on the most crucial copyright issue in the case.
New Twist In Class Action Law Could Affect Coke Race Case
U.S. District Court Judge Richard W. Story must decide whether to throw out a proposed class action suit brought by minority workers accusing the Coca-Cola Company of racial discrimination. He will be one of the first jurists to test a legal theory that may severely limit employment discrimination class action cases. The theory bars plaintiffs seeking primarily money damages rather than injunctive relief from pursuing a widely filed type of class action.Trending Stories
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