Recent Updates
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Federal judges slow to report travel expenses as required
Headline News 03/22/2007The Community Rights Counsel (CRC) said Wednesday that the new Judicial Conference Policy on Judges' Attendance at Privately Funded Educational Programs has not yet produced any public disclosures of travel expenses on judicial websites. According to...
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Law firm will not oppose Kraft spin off
Headline News 03/21/2007A law firm that is suing the tobacco industry over the marketing of "light" cigarettes said Wednesday it will not oppose plans by Philip Morris USA''s parent company, Altria Group Inc., to spin off its Kraft Foods business.The law firm Cohen, Milstei...
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White House Seeking Gonzales Replacements
Headline News 03/19/2007[##_1L|1219347525.jpg|width="140" height="112" alt=""|_##]Republican officials operating at the behest of the White House have begun seeking a possible successor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose support among GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill ...
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Former Sen. Santorum to join law firm
Headline News 03/19/2007Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum is joining law firm Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC and is expected to provide "strategic counseling" to clients, the firm said Monday. Santorum, a three-term Republican senator from Penn Hills, was defeated in ...
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3,000 in San Francisco protest Iraq war
Headline News 03/19/2007For a second consecutive day, thousands of protesters flowed through the streets of several cities Sunday to call for an end to the funding of the Iraq war or the immediate return of U.S. troops. Demonstrators converged in San Francisco, New York, Po...
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Attorney General Gonzales Faces a Tough Week
Headline News 03/18/2007[##_1L|1409448223.jpg|width="140" height="112" alt=""|_##]On the Sunday talk shows, Democrats said they had no confidence in his ability to lead. Republicans refused to defend him. "Ultimately, this is a decision up to the president and the attorney ...
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US attorney firings weighed in 2005
Headline News 03/16/2007[##_1L|1283461995.jpg|width="140" height="112" alt=""|_##]In early 2005 the Justice Department advocated the removal of up to 20 percent of the nation's US attorneys whom it considered to be "underperforming" but retaining prosecutors who were "loyal...
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The Key Number Is Net Income per Lawyer
Headline News 03/16/2007The only number that is down for Stevens & Lee's 2006 financial performance is its hours billed, as the firm posted double-digit increases in revenue and profit. The firm saw a 10.3 percent increase in gross revenue, from $102 million in 2005 to ...
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Giuliani law firm lobbies for Venezuela firm
Headline News 03/15/2007Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani's law firm lobbies for Citgo Petroleum Corp., which is controlled by the Venezuelan state oil company and President Hugo Chavez, but the firm said on Wednesday that Giuliani has never worked on the accoun...
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Law firm co-founder joins Skadden, Arps
Headline News 03/13/2007Jerry Salzman, longtime outside counsel for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, joined Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom on Monday, leaving the law firm he co-founded as it winds down operations.Freeman, Freeman & Salzman is going out of busi...
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Law firm looting brings prison term
Headline News 03/12/2007A 60-year-old bookkeeper who embezzled more than $1 million from a small, family-owned law firm in downtown Cincinnati will spend the next six years in prison.Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Charles J. Kubicki Jr. ordered the sentence this morning...
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Mass. Supreme Court judge Sosman dies
Headline News 03/11/2007Martha B. Sosman, one of three Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court judges who voted against the landmark decision legalizing gay marriage in the state, has died, the court said Sunday. She was 56. Sosman was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and ...