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February 11, 2008 |

Conference Call: In Alabama Drug Case, a Question of Timing

The justices are asked to take the case of an Alabama man who was busted for drugs based on an arrest warrant that was out of date.
7 minute read
September 05, 2005 |

Civil RICO keeps marching on

Many believe that the 1970 civil racketeering law was created to apply only to traditional Mafia-style criminals as a way to force them to pay for their criminal enterprise.
7 minute read
May 24, 2004 |

VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

Summaries of verdicts and settlements as reported in The National Law Journal.
5 minute read
July 25, 2005 |

Partner Pay Spread Can Reveal Firm Culture

Nathan [email protected] YORK-Last year, every Baker McKenzie partner earned at least $100,000, even partners in such exotic locales as Kuala Lumpur and Caracas. A hundred grand is certainly a respectable salary. But considering that Baker's top-paid partner received at least $3.5 million last year, it almost starts to sound meager.
5 minute read
December 08, 2008 |

Fannie's Ex-GC Had Her Doubts

Beth Wilkinson, general counsel at Fannie Mae when the federal government seized the reins, wasn't sure the takeover was a good idea then--and still isn't sure it was wise.
7 minute read
February 03, 2010 |

Judge Slashes Punitives, Upholds Jury's Finding in HRT Case

In an opinion reducing punitive damages awarded to a breast cancer survivor by almost $70 million, Senior Judge Norman Ackerman has become the first Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge to uphold a jury finding that drugmaker Wyeth failed to warn a plaintiff's prescribing physician of the dangers of breast cancer from using Wyeth's hormonal drugs.
6 minute read
September 27, 2004 |

Supreme Court Ponders Religion's Place

The U.S. Supreme Court convenes in a closed conference today to consider more than 1,900 new cases. Leading the list of cases that might be granted review are several First Amendment establishment clause disputes involving prison inmates' religious rights and Ten Commandments displays on public property. The Ten Commandments cases have been grabbing the headlines, but it's the Virginia prison rights case that may have a better chance of being granted review.
12 minute read
April 08, 2005 |

A New Field But Same Game for Class Actions

The day President Bush signed the Class Action Fairness Act into law, Madison County plaintiffs lawyer Stephen Tillery was rushing to file nine class actions in state court before the law took effect. A few days later, John Beisner used Tillery's last-minute offensive as an example of the legislation's salutary effects: Tillery, Beisner says, missed the filing deadline. His class actions, like most others in the nation, will likely be removed to federal court -- which is where tort reformers want them.
4 minute read
July 12, 2005 |

Insurance Law

Norman H. Dachs and Jonathan A. Dachs, attorneys with Shayne, Dachs, Stanisci, Corker & Sauer, write that one statute has generated so much confusion and so many conflicting decisions recently that they feel that the time has come for clarifying legislation.
7 minute read
August 02, 2006 |

'Hamdan,' And The Rest

In a normal year, Hamdanalone would have been sufficient to make the 2005-06 U.S. Supreme Court term historical, but, of course, it was not a normal year.
19 minute read

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