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• Corporate Lawyers as Sophists

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 591
  Who said the following, and when? “In many cities, however, and especially in Athens, the poorer citizens had towards the rich a double hostility, that of envy, and that of traditionalism. The rich were supposed – often with justice – to be impious and immoral; they were subverting ancient beliefs, and ...
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• Ex-Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Execs Acquitted Today on All Charges

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  When concerns are expressed that authorities are targeting the small fry rather than the big fish in mortgage-related fraud cases, a criminal prosecution of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers has repeatedly been cited as a rare exception. But today the case ended with the acquittal of both defendants, reports ...
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• Shill Bids for Domain Names Made by Auction Company Exec, Suit Alleges

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  Shill bids for tens of thousands of domain names were secretly made by a former executive of the company that auctioned the domain names, a lawsuit alleges. An unidentified former vice-president of SnapNames.com, which is a subsidiary of Oversee.Net, Inc., manipulated the auction and drove up prices for domain name ...
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• Jones v. Harris in person

  
  Conglomerate — Authority: 534
  For a final post on Jones v. Harris (not in conjunction with last weeks Forum but with my guest visit, which ends soon), I’ll close with a fewobservations from my visit to the oral argument last Monday. At 7:30 a.m. on Monday, the line for members of the Supreme Court bar waslonger than the public queue and ...
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• 23 New Partners at Latham & Watkins

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 139
  Latham & Watkins & Watkins promoted 23 of its associates to partner this week.  With twelve promotions coming in corporate law and five more in finance, this could be viewed as a sign of optimism about the economic recovery.  In addition, 13 associates were promoted to of counsel. & Watkins ...
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• Plaintiffs Lawyers to Earn Up to $28M in Risky Wal-Mart Wage & Hour Litigation

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  Although Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay as much as $85 million to settle 39 consolidated wage-and-hour class action lawsuits involving more than 3 million employees, it wasnt at all clear when the litigation began to unfold that the case would be a big winner. Now a hot litigation practice area, suing ...
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• 2009 Financial Services Benchmark Report

  
  SDB Benchmark Real Estate — Authority: 128
  Austrade launched its 2009 Financial Services Benchmark Report in conjunction with the Australian Financial Markets Association’s (AFMA) 2009 Australian Financial Markets Report last night at the Australian Securities Exchange. Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law, Chris Bowen, ...
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• Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy

  
  Recent White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - ZDNet — Authority: 453
  Oracle is taking a hard line in dealing with EU objections to its planned acquisition of Sun, according to a Financial Times report on Tuesday. Oracle is taking a hard line in dealing with EU objections to its planned acquisition of Sun, according to a Financial Times report on...
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• Miami Lawyer Says He Pointed Feds to Rothstein in Claimed $100M+ Scheme

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  An investment opportunity offered by managing partner Scott Rothstein of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler seemed too good to be true, a Miami lawyer and developer thought. So, Alan Sakowitz tells the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, he called the feds and put them on Rothsteins trail. After meeting with Rothstein three times, ...
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• Attorney Charged With Attempted Murder in Bizarre Attack on Lawmaker

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  Watching his father fight a gut-wrenching legal battle motivated Augustus Mendenhall to go to law school. But the decades-old property dispute still festered, resulting in a bizarre incident this past weekend that left the 38-year-old attorney jailed in an attempted murder case and a 66-year-old Indiana state lawmaker ...
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• Part I: The OECD, Vedanta, and the Supreme Court of India—Polycentricity in Transnational Governance--The Issue of Standing

  
  Law at the End of the Day — Authority: 117
  The state system remains stubbornly grounded in a monocentric view of law and regulation, even as it works to construct increasingly relevant multi-level systems of soft governance. “Here the great difficulty is defining the scope of the obligations to be imposed, formally and socially, on enterprises. There is a ...
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• UCLA Law Review 57:1 (October)

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 591
  Volume 57, Issue 1 (October 2009) Articles From Privacy To Liberty: The Fourth Amendment After Lawrence Thomas P. Crocker 1 Who Can Sue Over Government Surveillance? Scott Michelman 71 Leverage in the Board Room: The Unsung Influence of Private Lenders in Corporate Governance Frederick ...
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• Judge Reels Over Receiver’s $11M Bonus Request in Mutual Benefits Case

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  When Chief U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno first saw the bonus requested by the court-appointed receiver in charge of collecting assets for investors who lost some $837 million in the Mutual Benefits viaticals fraud, he thought it was just over $1 million. Then Moreno realized that hed misread the figure. It was ...
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• Ex-Client Sues Seyfarth, Seeks Treble Damages & Legal Fees

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  In a legal malpractice suit filed against Seyfarth Shaw and four current and former lawyers of the law firm, a former client is seeking not only standard-issue relief but treble damages and attorney fees under a Massachusetts consumer protection statute. Plaintiff PCG Trading contends Seyfarth withdrew from its ...
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• Morningstar Preview: Coates & Birdthistle

  
  Conglomerate — Authority: 534
  Morningstar has just posted a collection of pieces previewing Jones v. Harris , including this video of a conversation (or perhaps cordial debate) between Professor John Coates of Harvard Law School (who supports the respondents as an amicus in this case) and myself (who supports the petitioners).
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• Jury Says Radio Station Must Pay $16.6M in Woman’s Water Intoxication Death

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  The owner of a California radio station must pay $16.6 million to the survivors of a woman who died of water intoxication after participating in a "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest promoted by KDND, "The End" in 2007. The contest winner was to receive the Nintendo video game for drinking the most water without either ...
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• Previews of the Case

  
  Conglomerate — Authority: 534
  As another source of background for the upcoming Masters Forum on Jones v. Harris , here is an article about the case from this mornings Wall Street Journal .  And, for a very rich trove of information about the proceedings, the SCOTUSwiki entry is a terrific source. As Usha mentioned, I will be traveling to DC ...
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• OMG! The Mavericks Surf Contest 2009/2010 Window Opens This Sunday – It’s On!

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 527
  Boy, oh boy, there are a lot of changes to the Mavericks Surf Contest this go around. The El Nino The expanded Contest Window The new “ if they say ‘go,’ we go” method of deciding when to hold La Competencia Don’t miss the big wave action, baby! Click to expand All the ...
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• Lawyer Raided Sullivan & Cromwell Offices for Inside Info Years Ago, Court Filings Say

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  Years ago, when he worked at Sullivan & Cromwells offices on Wall Street as a corporate associate during the 1990s, Gil Cornblum regularly conducted what he called "spelunking" raids there around 4 a.m., reports the Globe and Mail. Court documents filed in an Ontario insider-trading case against Cornblum and ...
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• Many Online Credit Card Offers ‘Unfair or Deceptive,’ Pew Report Says

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  As federal lawmakers continue to work to close loopholes allowing banks to impose onerous terms on credit card users, the Pew Charitable Trusts reports that many continue to offer credit cards online in a manner that the Federal Reserve considers “unfair or deceptive.” Reviewing almost 400 cards and comparing ...
  2 weeks ago

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