Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke last night at a question and answer session held during a meeting of the National Association of Women Judges. Ginsburg said in the session that she believes states should not elect judges. She didn’t offer any alternative to the election system but she said she was concerned about the fundraising [...]
Continue reading...11. March 2010
Snell & Wilmer has announced the opening of their new sports agency, Athlete Management Professionals LLC, as reported by the National Law Journal on March 8. Snell & Wilmer corporate and finance attorney Travis Leach will run the spin off agency; Leach represented clients in the sports industry before taking on this new role. Leach [...]
Continue reading...11. March 2010
Former U.S. Senators John Breaux and Trent Lott are in talks with Patton Boggs to formally “join forces” and combine their law and lobbying resources. Rumors of a deal have circulated for several months now. Breaux and Patton Boggs both declined to comment on these talks according to law.com. Breaux and Lott formed the lobbying firm [...]
Continue reading...8. March 2010
As reported in the school’s newspaper and by WSFA NBC, Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court will make a public speech on Tuesday at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Roberts will deliver the School of Law’s 2010 Albritton Lecture; he will be the ninth justice since 1996 to lecture at Alabama. [...]
Continue reading...4. March 2010
The New York Times is reporting that Governor David Paterson has turned to lawyer Theodore V. Wells for legal assistance. Wells was a member of former Governor Eliot Spitzer’s legal team in 2008. He is a partner and Co-Chairman of the litigation department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a New York City based [...]
Continue reading...4. March 2010
And the Oscar goes to….David Quinto for his role at Quinn Emanuel as the guardian of the Academy Awards trademark. Quinto, an intellectual property attorney at the Los Angeles firm, spends a great deal of time protecting the copyrighted image of the Academy Awards worldwide. He also gets to guard the door on Sunday night [...]
Continue reading...26. February 2010
Laurence Tribe, prominent Harvard Law professor and generally considered one of the foremost liberal constitutional law scholars and Supreme Court practitioners in the country (he has appeared before the Supreme Court 34 times), will join the Justice Department next week to serve as a senior counselor for “access to justice”. In this role Tribe will [...]
Continue reading...19. February 2010
Jillian Michaels, a celebrity trainer who appears on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” television program, is suing Tarzana, California based Wasserman, Comden & Casselman (WC&C) for defamation. This action comes after being initially sued by the same firm over a breach in consumer and advertising laws relating to Michael’s Calorie Control capsules. The defamation claim originates from [...]
Continue reading...19. February 2010
Governor Rick Perry of Texas announced during a press conference on Tuesday that he will sue the United States Environmental Protection Agency on “behalf” of his state in order to stop the agency’s regulation of global warming pollution. Perry says that his intention is to, “defend Texas’ environmental successes against federal overreach. “ He went [...]
Continue reading...19. February 2010
J.K. Rowling, author of the popular Harry Pottery series, has been named in a lawsuit against Bloomsbury Publishing PLC . It is being alleged that there are striking similarities between parts of the ‘Goblet of Fire’ and Adrian Jacobs’ book ‘The Adventures of Willy the Wizard No. 1 Livid Land.’ Two specifics identified have been Jacobs’ [...]
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