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March 17, 2010 |

Regional Center EB-5s: Green Cards for the Wealthy and Wary

The Regional Center EB-5 program is one of the hottest topics in U.S. immigration. The number of Regional Center EB-5 petitions has increased well over 100 percent in the last two years. Whereas there were less than 25 approved regional centers as recently as two years ago, there are presently more than 80 with the number increasing at a rapid pace.
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June 01, 2009 |

Do Bailout Firms Have a Conflict of Interest?

The Washington Independent reports that several law firms, including Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, appear to have conflicts of interest by doing bailout work and representing banking clients despite Treasury Department contracts forbidding the practice. The Am Law Daily made some calls of its own about another firm -- Squire, Sanders & Dempsey -- and concludes that the conflicts question doesn't look so cut-and-dried.
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November 20, 2008 |

Searching Beyond Google

Most Web searching uses just a few providers. But according to technology writer Erik Sherman, there is a vast territory in the "invisible Web" that refers to databases connected to the Internet but not available for indexing by popular search engines, each with its own search capability.
6 minute read
November 08, 2010 |

FBI overreaching

The agency should be prohibited from using highly intrusive investigative techniques unless there is some basis to suspect wrongdoing.
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July 01, 2006 |

Bell Tolls for Patent Trolls

The ruling in eBay Inc. v. MercExchange makes it a lot tougher to win injunctions.
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October 24, 2008 |

Election Could Have Seismic Effect on Federal Courts

Republican presidents have appointed more than half of the current 179 federal appellate judges, but that could rise dramatically to 74 percent if Sen. John McCain wins the presidency -- or give Democrats a 56 percent majority in appointments if Sen. Barack Obama prevails, according to a Brookings Institution report issued on Wednesday. The report predicts that in four years of an Obama presidency, his appointments could shift Republican dominance on 10 of 11 circuits.
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July 18, 2000 |

The Art of Law Office Survival

Is the colleague on the other side of the partition driving you crazy -- playing his business and personal voicemail back on his speaker phone, loudly tapping his pen and generally being a pain? Should you confront him? It's a tricky situation, as are issues of "creative billing" and divulging information to partners ... when you know you should.
7 minute read
August 02, 1999 |

Are Connecticut's Federal Judges 'Soft on White-Collar Crime?'

The recent U.S. Sentencing Commission finding that federal judges in Connecticut depart from punishment guidelines more than in any state but Arizona raises issues of concern, say members of this state's bench and the bar. Most significantly it appears judges use the departures to give lesser sentences for white-collar crime than the national sentencing guidelines suggest, says U.S. Attorney Stephen C. Robinson.
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Judge Rejects Dueling Sanctions Motions in Pfizer Shareholder Class Action
Publication Date: 2013-01-09
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With a long-running securities fraud class action against Pfizer over the drugs Celebrex and Bextra finally lurching toward trial, both Pfizer's lawyers at Simpson Thacher and DLA and their opposing counsel at Grant & Eisenhofer have lost bids for adverse inference rulings based on alleged misconduct.

December 06, 2007 |

Morrison & Foerster Finds Conflict in SCO Patent Case

Illustrating the ease with which conflicts of interest can arise at a big firm, attorneys at Morrison & Foerster recently found themselves with clashing interests in the same trial, thanks to a third party, who neglected to disclose key information. San Francisco-based partners Adam Lewis and Michael Jacobs discovered the conflict when they realized that an objection filed on behalf of their client, Novell Inc., would delay a transaction in which the buyer was another MoFo client.
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