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April 30, 2007 |

Adventures in real estate

Profile of Edward S. Nekritz, general counsel and secretary of ProLogis.
5 minute read
September 28, 2005 |

More GCs Put Outside Litigators on a Budget

Elisa Garcia realizes that no amount of two-for-one coupons or meat lovers' specials will ever turn her law department at Domino's Pizza Inc. into a money-making operation. Instead, the best that she can hope to do as general counsel is to control costs.
6 minute read
November 02, 2010 |

Would law school warning labels make any difference?

Placing blame is a central component of the law. In the case of what ails legal education, however, it is not very easy to assign.
8 minute read
September 27, 2005 |

More GCs Put Outside Litigators on a Budget

In a trend that's picking up steam, corporate counsel are increasingly requiring outside litigation firms to submit detailed budgets from the outset of a case. Corporations like getting the budgets partly because they can also be benchmarks for larger evaluation of law firms, says one consultant. In addition, the budgets enable companies to see how well their own attorneys are controlling costs. For their part, litigation partners note the difficulty -- and tension -- potentially caused by the demand.
6 minute read
March 28, 2013 |

Acting Amid Uncertainty

In an unsettled economy, transactions lawyers had their hands full last year with spin-offs, divestitures, and junk bonds.
10 minute read
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February 02, 2009 |

Lawyers burned in Ponzi schemes

The indictments of three attorneys in Florida and California raises questions about how lawyers may be drawn into committing alleged frauds such as Ponzi schemes. "They may see golden opportunities for themselves with investments or hedge funds," said Peter Keane, an ethics professor at Golden Gate University School of Law.
4 minute read
April 08, 2009 |

The habits of highly effective law firm partners

It may not come as a shock that it's harder to become a law firm equity partner these days, and harder to remain one as well. Equity partners enjoy benefits of ownership that other lawyers in the firm do not share. In exchange, they agree to make contributions to the firm over and above what's expected of non-equity colleagues. Altman Weil's Eric Seeger details seven behaviors that he says firms expect equity partners to be able to demonstrate each year — if they want to stay in the equity partner ranks.
10 minute read
March 23, 2004 |

Secrecy in Tax Court Proceeding Challenged

The losing parties in a major civil tax fraud case are asking the Supreme Court to hear their claims that secret reports by special trial judges in the U.S. Tax Court violate due process. The petitions address a long-simmering controversy in the tax bar over whether the reports, which include findings of fact and opinion in some of the court's most complex and serious cases, should be public -- or at least available to federal appellate courts on review.
7 minute read
October 08, 2013 |

Who You Calling Nonessential? For Agencies, A Balancing Act

Essential versus nonessential. For millions of federal workers, it's a critical distinction, and one that agency inspectors general are likely to take a close look at once the government shutdown ends.
4 minute read
February 16, 2009 |

Markets need viable rules

Reflecting upon the financial crisis, I am struck by how popular discourse moves between the extremes of laissez-faire and government action. The basic point is that markets need rules. A lack of effective regulation has spawned four facilitators to financial scandal: dissemination of inaccurate information, abuse of regulatory gaps, exploitation of credulous consumers and the ability to use corporate size to privatize profits and socialize costs. Blocking them will be the key to avoiding future disasters.
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