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August 02, 2007 |

Senator-Lawyer Did Not Wield Undue Influence as Jury Foreman, Judge Finds

A New Jersey jury that handed up an $860,000 verdict in a supermarket slip-and-fall case last year was not unduly influenced by one of its members -- a state senator who is also a lawyer -- the trial judge says. Turning down a defense motion to overturn the award, the judge ruled that Robert Martin, the panel's foreman, had not been the sage he portrayed himself to be in an article he wrote about his experience. The article caught the eye of defense lawyers, adding fodder to a pending appeal.
5 minute read
December 12, 2006 |

U.S. Foreign Investment Panel Busy Reviewing Business Deals

In the same year that public furor derailed a Dubai-owned company's plans for buying American port operations, the Bush administration has reviewed nearly 100 foreign business deals for security risks, up from 65 last year. The secretive Committee on Foreign Investment also completed seven full-blown investigations this year, which is equal to the combined number for the previous five years. Reportedly, some anxious companies are seeking approval even for foreign deals without obvious security questions.
4 minute read
February 26, 2007 |

5th Circuit Throws Out Two Suits Over 'Light' Cigarettes

The 5th Circuit has dismissed suits filed by two people against the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. and by five people against Philip Morris USA Inc., both alleging the companies had falsely marketed "light" cigarettes as safer. None of the plaintiffs claimed injuries from smoking. Last year, a $10 billion verdict against Philip Morris in a state class action involving "light" cigarettes was thrown out. "The tobacco companies are doing pretty well in these light cases," said one product liability expert.
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June 27, 2003 |

Sarbanes-Oxley Extends Statute of Limitations

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 contains some good news for investors. It extends the statute of limitations for securities claims to two years after the discovery of facts constituting the violation and to five years after the violation actually occurred. While time limits have been liberalized, the rules for applying these limits in individual cases remain a developing area of the law.
9 minute read
February 14, 2007 |

25-Year-Old Legal-Mal Litigation Lives On Despite Plaintiff's Death

Texas' 1st Court of Appeals has breathed new life into a quarter-century old legal battle that began when one Houston lawyer agreed to represent a woman seeking to collect on loans she made to another Houston lawyer. Although Carol Whitsett died in 2002, her $6.5 million legal malpractice suit against her former attorney, William E. Junell Jr., and Junell's former firm, Andrews Kurth, lives on, with the state appeals court ruling that the statute of limitations does not block the continued litigation.
9 minute read
March 23, 2006 |

Fannie Mae's New GC

After taking down terrorists, prosecuting Colombian drug dealers and dispatching mass murderers to death row, former federal prosecutor Beth Wilkinson is tangling with a new kind of foe: Fannie Mae's critics on Capitol Hill. Wilkinson was appointed executive VP and general counsel of the Federal National Mortgage Association in December, and she now oversees a 120-attorney department. Wilkinson came to Fannie Mae from Latham & Watkins, where she had worked since 1998.
2 minute read
September 26, 2005 |

2005 Revoked List

Notice to the bar.
317 minute read
December 15, 2003 |

Yesterday's Deals

For the past quarter-century, federal antitrust agencies have focused their efforts almost entirely on enjoining proposed, rather than consummated, mergers. Yet in the past three years the Federal Trade Commission has reversed course. The most difficult issue in dealing with completed mergers is that of appropriate remedies. If the remedy is too harsh, will valuable assets be destroyed? If the remedy is too cautious, will it have a curative effect at all?
10 minute read
September 07, 2006 |

Tort Reform's Next Big Push

Tort reform groups and lawyers representing some of the nation's largest corporations are working with state legislators to amend consumer protection laws, seeking to curb what they see as costly class actions. The new momentum represents continuing fallout from California's Proposition 64, a landmark 2004 initiative that tightened the reins on consumer cases in that state. Tort reformers are circulating model legislation and hope to introduce proposed amendments as early as December in some states.
8 minute read
April 25, 2006 |

2nd Circuit Revives Suit Over Man's Refusal to Work on Sunday

A New York federal judge should not have granted summary judgment to Home Depot in a religious discrimination claim brought by a worker who said his faith barred him from working on Sundays, the 2nd Circuit has ruled. The panel said the trial court incorrectly concluded that the offer to let the worker work only Sunday afternoons and evenings was a sufficient attempt to accommodate his religious beliefs -- but said that an offer of part-time employment or changing shifts with co-workers might suffice.
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