Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Counting the Hours

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• Counting the Hours

• Objections Mount to Toyota Deal

• Wilmer's Billing Snapshot

• Latham Fights to Remain in Antitrust Case

• Quattrone Financing Criminal Justice Research at Penn

• INADMISSIBLE: 'Savior of Baseball' Revisits Classic Case

• The Alien Tort Statute: Looking Beyond 'Kiobel'

• Shield Law Not the Answer to AP Flap

• Bribery Prosecutions Revive Following 2012 Lag

• EEOC Gets Tough With Companies on Genetic Privacy

Counting the Hours

For Missouri's defenders, who last year handled 86,000 cases, timekeeping could prove to state officials — with solid data — that they're stretched too thin and need relief. Read More »

Objections Mount to Toyota Deal

Objectors have raised a range of problems with the $1.6 billion Toyota settlement, including a proposed $30 million cy pres award for automotive-accident research and the potential for release of claims in companion litigation over anti-lock braking system defects in Priuses. Read More »

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Wilmer's Billing Snapshot

Eastman Kodak Co.'s bankruptcy case is providing a glimpse into the billing rates of one of Washington's biggest firms: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Read More »

Latham Fights to Remain in Antitrust Case

Latham & Watkins is fighting to remain lead trial counsel for a freight rail company in a case billed as one of the largest antitrust matters of all time. Read More »

Quattrone Financing Criminal Justice Research at Penn

The University of Pennsylvania Law School is launching a center dedicated to policy and research of the U.S. criminal justice system, with the help of a $15 million donation from investment banker Frank Quattrone and his wife Denise Foderaro. Read More »

INADMISSIBLE: 'Savior of Baseball' Revisits Classic Case

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor presided over a re-enactment of Flood v. Kuhn, the 1972 decision that re-affirmed the court's much criticized position that pro baseball was exempt from antitrust laws. Plus: former adversaries work together, Cole's a no-show, questions about Apple tax, an IRS suit, Stovell's paternity case, and D.C. Circuit approves audio in this week's column. Read More »

The Alien Tort Statute: Looking Beyond 'Kiobel'

The Supreme Court left open the question of when ATS claims 'touch and concern' U.S. territory 'with sufficient force.' Read More »

Shield Law Not the Answer to AP Flap

Vague talk about 'protecting whistleblowers' obscures the fact that some leaks are criminal. Read More »

Bribery Prosecutions Revive Following 2012 Lag

Prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act declined during 2012, even as 15 new countries were cracking down on such crimes involving their own government officials, according to a survey by TRACE International Inc. Read More »

EEOC Gets Tough With Companies on Genetic Privacy

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has started filing suits against employers for violating the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. Companies need to get up to speed on GINA, ASAP. Read More »



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