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November 19, 2007 |

National Rankings

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August 09, 1999 |

Penn. Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling On Pollution Exclusion Provisions

The pollution-exclusion clause of a commercial liability insurance policy precludes coverage for injuries caused by a worker's exposure to fumes of a "useful product," the Pa. Supreme Court has decided. Pointing out that the issue has been a hot topic in insurance-coverage litigation, the court noted that there is a "wide divergence of viewpoints" across the country.
8 minute read
January 04, 2010 |

INADMISSIBLE

Firms push harder for collections in '09; Comcast goes head to head with the FCC; more football head injury hearings ahead; Battle battles over the estate tax; Machen on hold for U.S. Attorney seat; Friedman confronts the Supreme Court again; and the ABA makes the CPFA a top priority in this week's column.
5 minute read
August 03, 2010 |

Lessons From Twitter's Settlement With the FTC

Twitter's announcement that it agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges of inadequate privacy and information security practices illustrates some simple mistakes companies can make. If the consent decree is approved, Twitter will have to live with 20 years of FTC oversight.
5 minute read
February 01, 2010 |

Reformers Hope High Court Decision Will Kill Judicial Elections

For years now, judicial reform groups have more or less resigned themselves to the reality that the public likes to elect its state judges and will fight any effort to appoint them instead. The U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United v. FEC may have altered that sober truth. By supersizing possible corporate domination of judicial elections, the thinking goes, the decision may finally make the public see how unseemly the elections are -- and move toward merit-based selection as an alternative.
5 minute read
August 09, 1999 |

ABA Judicial Panel Doesn't Let Thomas, Hatch Stop Its Work

Among the 10,000 lawyers in Atlanta for the American Bar Association's annual meeting are 15 who can make or break one's chance to become a federal judge. This group will meet this week, in private, at a time and place the chairman declines to reveal. Despite such secrecy, this panel's impact has a very public effect on federal courts from coast to coast. A rating of "not qualified" from the ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary can-and has-nipped potential nominations in the bud.
5 minute read
April 30, 2007 |

Lessons of the Am Law 100

Revenues and profits at the nation's highest-grossing law firms grew by healthy margins in 2006. Same old story? Not quite.
5 minute read
February 02, 1999 |

Tracking Those Y2K Legal Issues on the Net (Break Problem Take 2)

The year-2000 computer problem presents a new genre of legal question -- and the answers, increasingly, are to be found on the Internet. Indeed, the Y2K computer problem is the first legal area in which the Internet is a richer research area than traditional legal authorities, such as treatises that can take months to publish and distribute.
6 minute read
September 08, 2009 |

Lots of Buzz Over High Court Campaign Finance Case, but Does FEC Have a Shot?

All the atmospherics about the extraordinary oral argument on campaign finance reform at the Supreme Court this week scream "landmark!" The uniqueness of a September sitting. The first time new Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be on the bench at argument. The debut of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, matched up with other titans of the Supreme Court bar. But for the packed crowd of spectators, when will it be clear whether the case being argued, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, really is a big deal?
5 minute read
April 30, 2007 |

Trade Group GC Helped Write Federal Appliance Standards Legislation

You've seen the little yellow-and-black FTC energy guide labels on products. That's what the Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association's certification programs are all about. As GC of GAMA -- a trade group that represents the manufacturers of appliances, components and products used for space heating, water heating and commercial food service -- Joseph M. Mattingly deals with appliance efficiency standards as well as energy conservation, environmental protection, and health and safety issues.
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