The quest for health care reform continues. According to Roll Call the White House has developed its own version of a merged House-Senate health care reform package and plans to have it online for public review by Monday in advance of a bipartisan health care summit scheduled for Feb. 25.…
Top Ten Stories for Week Ending February 19, 2010. Family Law Law Student Charged with Contempt for Exposing Daughter to Christianity Feb 17, 2010, 06:46 am CST Careers Will Deferred Associates Idea Backfire for Law Firms? Feb 16, 2010, 09:33 am CST Law Practice Management Firm Hit Over Partner’s Hiring…
From the New York Times February 17-18, 2010. The following are two very informative profiles from the New York Times: The first profile contains both information about Hon. Jonathan Lippman and emphasizes the impact he has had during his first year as Chief Judge of the New York Court of…
A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer By ADAM LIPTAK Published: New York Times February 9, 2010 EXCER[TS FROM ARTICLE: While in prison, a former bank robber transformed himself into an accomplished Supreme Court practitioner…. Mr. Hopwood spent much of that time in the prison law library, and it…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries arU.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, February 03, 2010 Janosky v. St. Amand, No. 09-1012 District court’s denial of defendant’s petition for habeas relief in a case arising out of an armed robbery gone awry is…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw U.S. Supreme Court, January 25, 2010 Hemi Group, LLC v. City of N.Y., No. 08–969 In an action by New York City against an online cigarette seller under the civil enforcement provision…
Top Ten Stories for Week Ending February 5, 2010: Banking Law Lawyer Sues Sallie Mae Over ‘Unrelenting’ Student Loan Robocalls Feb 3, 2010, 06:53 am CST Legal Marketing & Consulting Thomson Reuters Buys Super Lawyers Feb 2, 2010, 02:42 pm CST Layoffs Howrey Lays Off 29 Associates and 65 Staffers…
Prepared by Michael Chernicoff http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/exclusive_inside_the_new_westlaw_lexis_bloomberg_platforms/#ecamp=t-n322 Despite coming out with new platforms of their own, the perceived‐legal research monopoly of “Wexis” – WestLaw and LexisNexis – is facing pressure from a newly rejuvenated Bloomberg platform. Benefits of the updated Westlaw platform includes the use of a powerful natural language search in…
We are not court reporters and normally do not become involved in discussions related to that field. Nevertheless we recently came accross an interesting exchange of e-mails which helps to identify and highlight the challenges and sometimes emotial reactions regarding how stenographic reporting and electronic recording relate to one another…
BY: Michael Chernicoff President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has promsed to make its statistical body free from political manipulation. In making an independent statistical body, James Lynch may hope to reverse that likelihood that the BJS and its official are, “inappropriately…