A 41-year old Liberian and former paralegal at a 50-attorney Washington, D.C. law firm has been appointed the Liberian Inspector-General by President Sirleaf. According to allafrica.com, Marc Amblard faced tremendous criticism about questionable skill sets necessary for the position. His...
July 3, 2009 01:02 pm
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July 3, 2009 08:01 am
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July 2, 2009 07:21 pm
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July 2, 2009 06:46 pm

Georgia Supreme Court nominees

(Atlanta Injury Law " Civil Litigation Blog)
... , who was on Harvard Law Review, clerked for Justice Scalia, practiced at Hogan & Hartson in Washington, and was US Deputy Attorney General responsible for counterterrorism and fraud prosecutions. - Samuel D. Ozburn -Superior Court Judge; ... Law Firm; Atlanta, and Director of International Affairs for the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies based in Washington, D.C. After the brief distraction of a purely quixotic fantasy of joining the Supreme Court, I immediately returned to ...
July 2, 2009 05:51 pm
... were not accompanied by any petition for custody by Rowe. The hearing had been scheduled for Monday. Records show attorneys for both sides asked for the hearing to be delayed until July 13. Another hearing scheduled for Monday on who will ... arranged in time. The Los Angeles Police Department asked the DEA to help in the probe, a law enforcement official in Washington told the AP on condition of anonymity because of the investigation's sensitivity. While the investigation into the singer's death ...
July 2, 2009 03:25 pm
Morgan v. Kingen Employers cannot willfully withhold their employees' pay. Doing so subjects you to attorney's fees, costs, and exemplary damages under RCW 49.52.070. So what happens when you have a bankruptcy involved? Turns out Funster's Casino opened its doors in poor financial shape. Things got worse, and the CFO and CEO failed to pay wages during [...]
July 2, 2009 02:25 pm
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July 2, 2009 01:27 pm
Fascinating article in today's Washington Post: Zachary Goldfarb reports that in 2004 an SEC staff attorney in Compliance, Inspections and Examinations (who previously worked at the American Stock Exchange and understood complicated trading strategies) figured out that there was something...
July 2, 2009 12:44 pm

Lawyers Advertising on Craigslist

(Lawyer 2 Lawyer - The Legal Talk Network)
... a great source for generating business, but are challenged by a growing number of lawyer ads and individual state's advertising rules. Host J. Craig Williams welcomes Attorney Susan Beecher, a solo practitioner out of Kent, Washington and Attorney William Hornsby, counsel in the American Bar Association's Division for Legal Services, to look at the upside and downside of advertising on Craigslist and the legal ethics issues ...
July 2, 2009 12:18 pm

Dramatic attorneys

(First Impressions)
... end of the scale of legal characters, most people would mention Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird" or Denzel Washington's Joe Miller in "Philadelphia." Or Albert Finney's Ed Masry in "Erin Brockovich." I admit I don't watch a ... some of the worst legal characters - lawyers and judges - in TV and movies. In recent years, consider the attorneys of "Boston Legal" - bad attorneys or just overly zealous and quirky? How about Jim Carrey's character in "Liar, Liar." Richard Gere's ...
July 2, 2009 11:38 am
... in bankruptcy. This distinction is crucially important because willful withholding of wages allows a plaintiff to recover double damages, attorneys' fees and exposes the withholder to personal liability. The owners of the bankrupt casino were thus personally liable for twice ... of all the unpaid wages plus attorneys' fees unless they could assert a bankruptcy defense. They tried. They failed at the trial level, the appellate level, and as of today, at the Washington Supreme Court as well. Justice ...
July 2, 2009 10:40 am
According to an article written by Ashley Halsey III in The Washington Post (click here), bad highway design and poor road conditions are a factor in more than half of the fatal automobile crashes in the United ... are not as safe as we think they are and we need billions of dollars in upgrades and improvements; points known all too well by plaintiff attorneys and accident victims nation-wide. The Washington Post article can be read here: Highway Conditions Contribute To Over Half of Fatal Auto ...
July 2, 2009 10:33 am
TwinCities.com reports: The Minnesota Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom for discouraging a medical examiner from letting a co-worker to testify in a Washington County murder trial. Backstrom will pay a $900 fine. In a one-page...
July 2, 2009 10:32 am
... clerkship experience is preferred. Information about how to apply for this job, plus two more positions in the south, after the jump. 2. Position: Environmental Attorney (2005 ­ 2008 grads) Location: Alabama Description: Environmental Attorney with 1-3 years ... , Director, at either jordan.abshire@laterallink.com or 704.899.5549. Jordan is a Director for the Southeast Region, with a focus on Washington, D.C., Charlotte, and Atlanta. Jordan spent three years in private practice in the energy group ...
July 2, 2009 10:31 am
... mother, who has been awarded temporary custody of her three grandchildren, might have trouble gaining final custody because of a 1999 bankruptcy filing. Washington attorney Beth Kaufman is quoted as saying, "I think it would be a negative factor but not necessarily a disqualifier. It could indicate that she is not capable of sound financial management." It is often said that bankruptcy experts and family law experts ...
July 2, 2009 08:21 am
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July 2, 2009 04:56 am

New Jersey Law Journal: News Briefs July 2, 2009

(New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library Blog)
... The putative class consists of Synapse subscribers in New Jersey, New York and Washington, D.C. But U.S. District Judge Jose Linares ruled Monday ... associate salaries isn't likely to eliminate the dramatic compensation disparities between new attorneys, according to the National Association for Law Placement. A NALP survey of starting associate salaries for ... 160,000, which was the starting pay at many large firms last year. Few attorneys fell into the pay ranges between those two peaks, however, and ...
July 2, 2009 01:14 am
... from lawyers looking to snare web-savvy clients. According to the article, written by Ed Finkel, the Chicago site had over 100 attorney ads posted on a single day in April, 2009. Jonathan Stein, an Elk Grove, California solo, has been posting on the site ... and that the return on his investment is "immeasurable". The article also mentioned Susan L. Beecher, a solo practicing in Kent, Washington. Ms. Beecher's practice includes family law and she began posting ads on craigslist about a year ago. ...
July 1, 2009 11:46 pm
... to make prosecutions easier and more convenient for the government. Melendez-Diaz relied on the holding in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 51 (2004) in which the Court reaffirmed the basic tenet of the constitution ... burden in all Massachusetts drug cases. Based on the language in the opinion, it also appears Massachusetts criminal defense attorneys should object during the prosectuion of gun offenses to the admission of ballistic certificates when the District Attorney moves to introduce ...
July 1, 2009 03:38 pm
 
 

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