Court Revives Claim to Art

Headlines • Court Revives Claim to Art • Second Thoughts on False Claims • Banks Draw Out Their Knives • After Supreme Court Win, Voting Rights Act Challengers Seek Fees • Akin Gump Moves On After Millett • Danger in Disarming Military Justice • Lawmakers Should Let the Sun Set on the Pension Protection Act • You Reap What You Sow Online • Female Associate Numbers Decline—Again • Should Firms Look at Economic Diversity in Hiring? Court Revives Claim to Art When Lilly Cassirer Neubauer escaped Germany in 1939, a Nazi appraiser demanded she surrender a painting from her collection. She did so, accepting the equivalent of $360 for the piece. Neubauer died in 1962 before discovering what happened to the painting. Her grandson discovered it in 2000 hanging in a museum in Spain. He sued to get it back. Read More » Second Thoughts on False Claims The False Claims Act has proven one of the most lucrative civil enforcement tools for the U.S. Department of Justice, but critics now are pushing reforms on Capitol Hill and arguing the law is ineffective in preventing fraud. In the push for change, one voice is standing out: David Ogden. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Law Librarian M.S.: St. John's Flexible, affordable, St. John's University's M.S. and Advanced Certificate programs in Library and Information Science combine top faculty with the resources of New York's best law libraries. Students receive well-equipped laptops. Contact Jeffery Olson, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Provost and Director of Library and Information Science: (718) 990-6200; dlis@stjohns.edu. Visit www.stjohns.edu/lawlibrarian Banks Draw Out Their Knives When federal financial regulators last week adopted the massive Volcker Rule, it didn't mean their work was finished. If anything, lawyers say the work is just beginning. Read More » After Supreme Court Win, Voting Rights Act Challengers Seek Fees Following a bitter legal battle before the U.S. Supreme Court over the scope of the Voting Rights Act, the challengers are again fighting the federal government — this time over legal fees. Read More » Akin Gump Moves On After Millett Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld spent months preparing for the departure of one of the firm's star appellate lawyers, Patricia Millett, who last week was confirmed for a slot on a key federal appeals court in Washington. Read More » Danger in Disarming Military Justice Stripping commanding officers of power won't solve the military's sexual assault scourge. Read More » Lawmakers Should Let the Sun Set on the Pension Protection Act Up for renewal, the law blocks plans from adjusting to economic downturns. Read More » You Reap What You Sow Online Social media and LinkedIn aren't the ­panacea or the silver bullet to your marketing woes, but they are tools with real power if used correctly. Read More » Female Associate Numbers Decline—Again NALP's latest report shows a stubborn decline for women in the legal profession. Read More » Should Firms Look at Economic Diversity in Hiring? Guest blogger Robin Sparkman argues that it's time to take a broader definition of diversity in hiring associates. Read More »

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