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June 20, 2011 |

In Hanford saga, no resolution in sight

Two decades after it began, there's no end in sight to legal wrangling over the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Is this how litigation is supposed to work?
33 minute read
May 24, 2013 |

Record Fannie Mae Profits Draw Ire From Mortgage Lenders

Fannie Mae has ramped up its purchases of home loans from lenders for cash, in the process cutting out originators from the more profitable business of creating and selling bonds backed by the debt.
8 minute read
October 01, 2004 |

A Winning Formula

In this year's Midlevel Associates Survey, Arnold & Porter earned the highest score of any Am Law 100 firm, and the third-highest overall. Associates particularly love the firm's family-friendly approach, but it also scored especially well on training, guidance and interesting or satisfying work. And while the firm's scores jumped this past year, the changes didn't come overnight. Managing partner James Sandman says the firm has been laying the groundwork for a long time.
5 minute read
May 09, 2005 |

Alice S. Fisher, 38

3 minute read
August 20, 1999 |

Spying on Hate

Reviving the FBI's spying on radical groups is not the way to respond to hate crimes, says Prof. David Cole.
6 minute read
August 12, 2003 |

ABA Delegates OK Changes in Confidentiality

By a slim 17-vote margin, the American Bar Association's House of Delegates on Monday changed model rules governing the attorney-client privilege in the hopes of combating corporate fraud. The proposal, drawn up in the aftermath of Enron, WorldCom and other corporate scandals, allows lawyers to breach the duty of confidentiality if a client uses the lawyer's advice to commit a crime or fraud.
3 minute read
February 08, 2013 |

Java Vulnerability Puts Law Firms On Alert

The burgeoning awareness surrounding Java's flaws may change the way law firms regard patching and online security.
5 minute read
August 12, 2003 |

ABA Delegates OK Changes in Confidentiality

By a slim 17-vote margin, the American Bar Association's House of Delegates on Monday changed model rules governing the attorney-client privilege in the hopes of combating corporate fraud. The proposal allows lawyers to breach the duty of confidentiality if a client uses the lawyer's advice to commit a crime or fraud. The rules were drawn up in the aftermath of the Enron, WorldCom and other corporate scandals that shook the nation's financial markets.
3 minute read
July 05, 2013 |

Judge Phipps' Long Road

Herbert Phipps has seen a lot in his 71 years. He grew up in a rural county so segregated that for years he didn't realize that white children went to school, too. It was a place where racism was so open that lawyers would use a racial epithet to describe their own clients in court.
7 minute read
August 02, 1999 |

Wising Up and Dressing Down

With more than a third of Washington's 25 largest law firms implementing week-long "casual Friday" dress codes during the summer months for the first time ever, everyone is looking over his or her shoulder to see what the next lawyer is wearing.
9 minute read

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