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Have Contract, Can?t Furlough
[ The National Law Journal ] A pair of recent court rulings are giving unions new and potentially potent ammunition against furloughs of public employees.
On Aug. 18, a federal judge struck down a furlough plan in Prince George’s County, Md., holding that the plan violated the U.S. Constitution by unilaterally cutting wages guaranteed through collective [...]
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Ex-Judge Stays Out of Jail While Helping With Fraud Cases
[ The Associated Press ] Former Greenwood, Miss., attorney and judge Bobby Fisher’s cooperation with federal authorities has allowed him to remain free more than three years after pleading guilty to a mortgage scam.
Fisher says he continues to help U.S. attorneys on mortgage fraud cases and will be sentenced once those wrap up.
In January 2006, [...]
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New Cases on N.J. Supreme Court?s Docket Test Privilege, Deposition Boundaries
[ New Jersey Law Journal ] Aggressive lawyering at two of New Jersey’s high-profile litigation firms — Sills Cummis & Gross and Nagel Rice — is under attack in cases the state Supreme Court has added to its agenda for the term that begins Sept. 14.
A case in which Sills Cummis of Newark, N.J., is [...]
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Shearman Loses Brussels Partners to Arnold & Porter
[ Legal Week ] Shearman & Sterling is set to lose its only two Brussels-based partners to U.S. rival Arnold & Porter.
Shearman’s local office head Annette Schild is joining Arnold & Porter in the Belgian capital, along with fellow partner Silvio Cappellari and counsel Stephanie Birmanns. All three lawyers focus on competition and antitrust and [...]
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Citing Differences in Procedure, Victims? Lawyer Recognizes Libya Frustrations
[ The American Lawyer ] The vitriol continues to grow over a Scottish justice minister’s controversial decision to grant early release to convicted Libyan terrorist Abdelbaset al-Megrahi for his role in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi’s plan to pitch his Sahara-sized tent in New Jersey — the home state [...]
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Freshfields, Local Firms Look Forward to $13 Billion Telecom Tie-Up
[ The American Lawyer ] Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and four leading firms from India and South Africa have landed roles in negotiations that could bring about India’s largest-ever M&A deal. Bharti Airtel and MTN Group are getting closer to announcing a long-awaited transaction creating the world’s largest international telecom provider.
The Am Law Daily began tracking [...]
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High Court Justices Among Those Paying Tribute to Sen. Kennedy
[ The National Law Journal ] The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a pair of statements on the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass. — one from Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., and the other from Justice Stephen Breyer, who worked for Kennedy 30 years ago as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kennedy [...]
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Deduplication: Custodian vs. Case
[ Law.com ] Deduplication has become a mainstay of electronic data discovery processing where documents, such as word-processing files and e-mail messages, are assigned an algorithmically calculated alphanumeric value (typically an MD5 hash) and compared to all other electronic files in a data set. Documents with the same MD5 hash values are considered duplicates. As [...]
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Allen Stanford?s Receiver Finding Controversy ? but Little Money
[ The American Lawyer ] In February, when the Securities and Exchange Commission took over the global empire of Texas businessman R. Allen Stanford, investors in certificates of deposit sold by Antigua-based Stanford International Bank learned that their money had likely vanished. The supposedly ultra-safe investment, prosecutors and the SEC allege, was actually an $8 [...]
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Plaintiffs Firms Show Support for SEC Shareholder Rights Proposal
[ New York Law Journal ] A rare joint letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from a group of defense law firms over shareholder proxy access is receiving an even rarer response from nine of the country’s largest plaintiffs law firms.
The firms, more typically seen in shareholder litigation than in regulatory squabbles, include [...]
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