What should you do when confronted with possible disclosure of confidential metadata? Conversely, what should you do if you learn that confidential metadata has been disclosed? Browning Marean, a partner at DLA Piper, delves into recent e-discovery cases that may offer insight. Full Story…

Potpourri: FEHA Fee Award Against Costco And Recent Article Confirms Steep Decrease in Jury Trial At Both State and Federal Levels
Costco Hit With FEHA Fee Award of $471,240 Plus Costs.
In our category “Civil Rights,” you will find cases discussing California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), a statutory scheme that has a mandatory fee-shifting provision [...]

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will make a rare public appearance Thursday at the Newseum, marking the publication of a new book on the landmark 1803 decision Read on…

Tax lawyer Robert Kenny says he’s paying a steep price for taking on the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of clients: a retaliatory strike that has put his livelihood and his law license at risk. In a federal suit, Kenny alleges that when he complained to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration that an [...]

The case against Miami attorney Ben Kuehne keeps crumbling. A federal magistrate recommended Friday that a wire and mail fraud count against Kuehne and a Colombian co-defendant be dismissed — another embarrassing setback in the case for the Justice Department. Kuehne and Colombian attorney Oscar Saldarriaga are accused of using drug profits from the family [...]

The solicitor general’s office has turned down a request by the Innocence Project to disavow a Bush administration stance on prisoners’ access to DNA evidence in post-conviction proceedings. As a result, on March 2, Neal Katyal will debut as deputy SG by arguing before the Supreme Court in support of the state of Alaska’s [...]

Lawyers are like hounds on a hunt: Sometimes one just isn’t enough. And solo practitioner Paul Schorn says just because solos are lone wolves, it doesn’t mean that every now and again, they can’t run with the hounds. Some cases call for a joint venture, where a team of lawyers can come at the problem [...]

A bad economy, aging workers and long-ago company promises of lifetime health benefits for retirees have combined to produce a spate of conflicting federal appellate standards as companies try to cut back the benefits. The 6th Circuit has embraced broad acceptance of the premise that retiree benefit rights vest if there’s additional evidence outside the [...]

Three days after disgraced attorney Marc S. Dreier was released from jail to begin house arrest at his Manhattan apartment, papers filed in the Dreier LLP bankruptcy proceeding reveal that Dreier’s 250-attorney firm might not be insolvent after all. According to a summary of schedules filed Monday with the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy [...]

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By the close of business on Friday the 13th, more than 1,100 lawyers and staff in the U.S. had been fired or asked to consider buyouts. Why so much pain in one week? Several theories are making the rounds, including the rocky reception of the federal stimulus package and the already grim balance sheets for [...]

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As the turbulent economy spurs law firms to consider new ways to maintain their fair share of clients’ hearts and wallets, the firms that thrive will be those that not just understand who they are and what they do in the absolute but that can also exploit who they are and what they do relative [...]

Japan’s umbrella Bar group has shaken up the country’s international legal community by stating that all foreign lawyers, regardless of position, must be formally registered to practice. Most foreign law firm partners are registered as such, but the majority of associates and counsel are not. In recent years, top law school graduates with strong Japanese [...]

LAPD OIS after 1 hour low speed chase through Hollywood.

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