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April 19, 2002 |

Law Profs Lobby SEC on Lawyers' Accountability to Boards

With an eye on the Enron scandal, a band of 19 securities law and legal ethics professors, led by the University of Illinois College of Law's Richard Painter, signed a letter in mid-March urging the Securities and Exchange Commission's chairman to use the agency's enforcement powers to require attorneys -- in-house and otherwise -- to report securities law violations to their corporate boards of directors.
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February 26, 2003 |

A Tightrope Victory

The defense win in the wrongful-death trial of a 15-year-old gunned down by a stalker convinced she'd spurned his love was formidable. Defense teams for both the stalker's therapist and the clinic where he'd been a psychiatric patient took a remarkable path: They claimed that the stalker had received appropriate psychiatric care and suggested that the plaintiffs were not blameless in their daughter's death.
6 minute read
October 16, 2006 |

Model Bill Seeks Harmony in States

Supporters of the model trademark bill plan their next big push to harmonize the states' laws with recent changes in federal practice.
3 minute read
June 18, 2007 |

A trial's morality play

Giving a jury the factual basis for deciding a case your way is not the first step a lawyer should take, said Steven M. Zager, partner in the Houston office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
5 minute read
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May 10, 2004 |

Web masters

Nary a big firm would be caught dead these days without a Web site, yet Internet experts say many firms lag behind their techno-savvy clients. But for every firm that is doing it wrong, there's another that is lighting up the Internet..
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March 10, 2003 |

Vaccine Bill Becomes Big Headache

Proposed legislation over an allegedly harmful vaccine additive has vexed Congress, vaccine makers and thousands of parents who claim that their children's autism is linked to vaccinations. Lawmakers took the unusual step of seeking advice from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims' chief judge, which, say legal ethics experts, doesn't raise red flags, but illustrates the complexity of the debate over the additive, thimerosal.
7 minute read
August 27, 2007 |

On The Rise: W. Scott Ortwein

When Stephen A. Hellrung, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Marietta-based Graphic Packaging Corp., called Alston Bird last year for help on a complex $655 million merger, he was surprised that the firm recommended W. Scott Ortwein.Hellrung admits his skepticism that someone so young could handle the work, but after watching him in action, he began to trust the choice.
3 minute read
March 19, 2009 |

May Courts Assist Private International Arbitration?

With more disputes required by contract to be resolved through international arbitrations, parties must pursue creative avenues to obtain written discovery and witnesses' testimony. One such avenue is through 28 U.S.C. �1782. Currently, the courts are split over whether an international private arbitration constitutes a "tribunal" entitled to judicial assistance under �1782. Attorneys Sofia E. Biller and Howard S. Suskin examine the implications of that split on the availability of relief under �1782.
15 minute read
May 09, 2006 |

Judicial Profile: Kathryn Mickle Werdegar

The state Supreme Court justice strikes a moderate chord with articulate rulings that focus on personal issues that affect everyday life.
9 minute read

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