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January 24, 2001 |

Novel View of Election Money

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., says there will be "blood all over the floor of the Senate" if opponents block his campaign finance reform bill. This means the return of a familiar debate involving questions of preventing corruption and restricting speech. Law Professor John Hasnas says these issues are beside the point; and the relevant question is whether legislative mandates are necessary in the first place.
4 minute read
May 19, 2003 |

Bill Targets Class Action Lawyer Fees

Republican Sens. Jon Kyl and John Cornyn have asked the Senate to apply a tax code provision drafted after the collapse of televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's empire to limit contingency fees earned by lawyers in suits resulting in settlements or judgments of $100 million or more. Kyl called it "the tobacco-tax lawyers' amendment." While that bid failed last week, the idea is still very much alive.
4 minute read
October 14, 2009 |

SC board pardons 2 black men executed 94 years ago

COLUMBIA, S.C. AP - South Carolina pardoned syndicated radio host Tom Joyner's great-uncles Thursday, nearly a century after they were sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran.Officials believe the two men are the first in the state to be posthumously pardoned in a capital murder case.
4 minute read
August 11, 2003 |

Many Candidates, Few Lawyers

Relatively few lawyers, even in Washington, specialize in the arcane area of election law -- and that many of those in the field will work only for candidates of one political party.
6 minute read
May 04, 2000 |

Part-time Work, Full-time Lives

In a profession that prizes workoholics, a handful of attorneys carve a comfy niche for themselves in customized work arrangements with their firms. Not surprisingly, a lot of them are working moms. How do the economics pan out for their firms, and can lawyers really free themselves from the "tyranny of the billable hour"?
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May 24, 2004 |

David Boies Cleared by Florida Bar of Ethics Charge

The Florida Supreme Court has dismissed an ethics complaint against prominent Microsoft litigator David Boies, who was charged with violating Florida bar rules by paying more than $400,000 to help his law firm's chief financial officer pursue a contract dispute in Palm Beach County Circuit Court.
4 minute read
May 04, 1999 |

Sneak Attack

A California congressman slipped an anti-Delaware provision into a federal bankruptcy bill that would threaten Delaware's thriving bankruptcy practice by sharply paring away the corporate reorganizations that could be filed in the state. Delaware's influential congressional delegation is already riding to the rescue and expected to carry the day before the bill becomes law. The provision arose last month during the House Judiciary Committee's bill-drafting session on revising the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
5 minute read
February 19, 2013 |

Same-Sex Marriage at the Supreme Court

The Roberts court's generally cautious approach raises doubt as to the breadth of the forthcoming opinion, explains Ben Feuer of the California Appellate Law Group.
11 minute read
April 12, 2010 |

Olson: Challenge to Proposition 8 Has Global Implications

According to Theodore Olson, the legal challenge to a California measure banning same-sex marriage he is leading with David Boies, a managing partner of Boies Schiller & Flexner, clearly has global implications. "What happens in this case won't just affect the people of California, it will affect the country. And what happens in the United States will affect the rest of the world."
4 minute read
October 13, 2010 |

Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Steven Wax

Oregon Federal Public Defender Steven Wax faced a tough bench on Tuesday in his Supreme Court argument. But tough benches and tough cases are regular fare for this Brooklyn-born defense attorney.
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