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February 10, 2005 |

'Conscience' Clauses Covering Medical Providers Hit the Courts

A wave of proposed legislation -- known as "refusal" or "conscience" clauses -- and numerous lawsuits are highlighting a trend by state governments to protect medical providers who refuse to offer services or drugs on religious or moral grounds. Many attorneys fear the movement is a slippery slope to allowing refusal for virtually any medical procedure, limiting patients' access to practices and technology ranging from abortion to stem-cell research and end-of-life treatments.
9 minute read
June 02, 2005 |

Video Game Exec Sues 'Masters of Doom' Publisher for Libel

Video game wars are usually waged by teenagers on a small screen. But now the mayhem has spilled over into federal court in Texas, where a video game industry executive is suing publishing giant Random House Inc. for libel. Computer game publisher Michael Wilson alleges that statements made about him in a book about two gaming industry gurus are false and have damaged his reputation.
5 minute read
May 15, 2008 |

U.S. Interrogation Lawyers Could Face Overseas Criminal Charges

In his new book, "Torture Team," Philippe Sands argues that former Bush administration lawyers could be prosecuted abroad for endorsing interrogation techniques that constitute torture. Sands, an English lawyer who has done some work on behalf of British detainees at Guantanamo, analyzes the notorious memo that authorized a range of aggressive interrogation techniques. It was signed by the former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on Dec. 2, 2002; it was retracted two months later.
5 minute read
November 01, 2005 |

The Fix Is In

When Samuel Gillespie joined Unocal Corporation as general counsel in October 2003 with a mandate to cut legal costs, he says he could see right away that litigation expenditures were "extraordinarily high." Environmental litigation stood out in particular. The average case took three years to resolve and cost $500,000 in legal fees alone. And they usually settled for an average of $1 million, though some ranged much higher.
14 minute read
May 11, 2006 |

Six Days, Six Lawyers, $24 Billion

Golden West GC Michael Roster knew exactly which firm he wanted to handle the bank's blockbuster sale to Wachovia: Wachtell. They got it done with just six lawyers.Quick, Not DirtyWilson, Sonsini partner Martin Korman led the deal in Quantum Corp.'s acquisition of Advanced Digital Information Corp. And in this $770 million deal, it got done in one hour-long phone call.
5 minute read
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September 28, 2007 |

Reaching Over Party Lines

Incoming State Bar President Jeffrey Bleich is a self-described moderate Democrat and a huge Barack Obama fan. But that didn't stop the Republican governor from approaching him about a position.
8 minute read
December 02, 2002 |

December 2002 Docket Watch

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the next two weeks in a case involving an anti-abortion group blocking access to a clinic, another involving a congressional redistricting plan, and a challenge to a Virginia law that bans cross burning.
6 minute read
October 31, 2005 |

Fitzgerald Leads Legion of Lawyers to Libby Indictment

Patrick Fitzgerald has been the face of the highly publicized probe that culminated Friday with the indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, but he's relied upon a small army of prosecutors from Washington and Chicago with an array of backgrounds and varying degrees of experience. Among his team are prosecutors who convicted a deadly crew of drug dealers; helped nab high-profile spies; took on a Chicago mobster; and helped disband a ring of exotic animal poachers.
8 minute read
June 07, 2005 |

Small Town Trial Blues

It's what defense attorneys call being "hometowned" -- losing clout in a small town courtroom to local attorneys who the judge knows on a first-name basis. In addition to the obvious -- everyone in a small town knows everyone else -- some say small town jurors are more likely to want to stick it to big corporations, particularly when the victim is local. Says one defense attorney, "small towns have proven to be fertile ground for plaintiffs lawyers and they are giving huge punitive damage awards."
8 minute read
June 06, 2005 |

The NewsGuy

Guy H. Kerr, senior vice president of law and government and board secretary of Belo Corp., knows you can't plan for everything. Over the next few months, he will steer his company through a legal thicket that has grown up around The Dallas Morning News, Belo's subsidiary and its flagship daily newspaper, related to its overstated circulation figures in recent years.
13 minute read

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