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September 28, 2000 |

Attorney-Client Privilege, Corporations, and the DOJ

The attorney-client privilege is the oldest of the privileges recognized at common law. Imagine the public outcry if federal prosecutors demanded that defendants waive the attorney-client privilege as a necessary prerequisite to resolving cases. Startling as it may seem, this is precisely what is occurring in situations in which the defendants (and potential defendants) are corporations.
9 minute read
October 30, 2009 |

Kansas Case Casts Doubt on Rule 502

A recent decision in Kansas federal court stands at odds with a major goal of Federal Rule of Evidence 502 -- reducing the cost of electronic discovery through the endorsement of "quick peek" and "clawback" agreements in those cases in which the parties jointly agreed to such procedures.
10 minute read
January 26, 2012 |

BankUnited CEO John Kanas: offer 'blew up in my face'

CEO John Kanas says he wasn't interested in selling BankUnited. But when Goldman Sachs offered to shop the institution around, his board was willing to listen to offers.
4 minute read
July 04, 2011 |

Home court advantage

The Housing Conditions Calendar opened last spring as a new forum for tenant complaints in District of Columbia Superior Court.
6 minute read
May 09, 2006 |

Outsourced Around the World in a Billable Hour

Associates may be pleased by the recent spike in first-year salaries, but are associates worth the cost? Even as law firms call the salary increases a competitive necessity, concerns are developing over the growing use of outsourcing and offshoring. Some estimates predict 79,000 jobs -- more than half of them attorney positions -- could be lost to offshore providers of legal services by 2015. Will the rise in associate compensation -- and, ultimately, billing rates -- price firms out of their own market?
5 minute read
July 14, 2004 |

The House of the Spirits

Radio commercials call the home of a popular Texas beer "the little brewery in Shiner, Texas." But San Antonio-based Gambrinus Co., Shiner Bock's parent company, is anything but little, and managing its legal affairs is no small task. GC Bill Levine juggles about as many responsibilities as a bottle of beer has bubbles. Among his duties: making sure processes meet 50 sets of state rules covering everything from labels to whether a bar can have a mirror.
7 minute read
November 30, 2011 |

Stop Online Piracy Act Puts Future of Internet at Stake

Professor Marc H. Greenberg of the Golden Gate University School of Law takes a closer look at the Stop Online Privacy Act, and doesn't like what he sees.
6 minute read
Cravath, K&L Gates Fight to Lift Stay on Alcoa Foreign Bribery Case
Publication Date: 2011-11-04
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Aluminum giant Alcoa has had enough of waiting to defend itself against sensational bribery claims by a Bahraini rival while the DOJ and SEC build their own cases against the company. On Thursday Cravath's Evan Chesler travelled to Pittsburgh to make Alcoa's case for lifting a three-year-old stay in the civil suit so that it can seek dismissal, but federal prosecutors countered that allowing the case to proceed could threaten the government's investigation.

January 13, 2012 |

Revisiting Drug Sentencing, Determining Amount in Controversy

In their Eastern District Roundup, Harvey M. Stone and Richard H. Dolan, partners at Schlam Stone & Dolan, discuss an evidentiary hearing regarding a new amendment to the Sentencing Guidelines; a financial penalty imposed on a traveler to Cuba for failing to provide information about the unauthorized trip; and the finding that limitations on attorney fees under applicable law prevented a plaintiff from meeting the $75,000 "amount in controversy" requirement.
10 minute read
November 16, 2012 |

Privacy Case Hits Big Snag at Supreme Court

A lawyer's attempt to hold the federal government liable for violating his privacy and the privacy of "thousands of others" under the Fair Credit Reporting Act hits a major roadblock in the U.S. Supreme Court.
5 minute read

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