law news Work force legalities: The Employment Non-Discrimination Act The Employment Non-Discrimination Act What HR 2981; HR 3017/S 1584 does: Amends Title VII to prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Kara Veitch - Forty under 40 winner Kara Veitch Title: Senior associate Company: Isaacson Rosenbaum PC Age: 35 Key civic affiliations: Babies Now!, Women’s Bean Project, Colorado Women’s Bar Association, Colorado Bar Association, Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Colorado   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 McMillin finds AHA position fulfilling in giving Martha McMillin sees her short time with the Atlanta Housing Authority as both a job and a way of giving back to the community.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Lawyers and social media: Can we get along? Can a lawyer breach ethical duties with a single click of a mouse, without even touching a keyboard? Thanks to social media, the answer may be yes. This is one of many practical issues that attorneys must consider when using social media.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Corporations push for hourly fee alternatives In an effort to ride out a down economy, it’s becoming standard for law firms to offer deep discounts on traditional hourly rates in an effort to attract and retain clients.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Griswold takes on ACC amid difficult climate Betsy Griswold took over the reins as the president of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Georgia chapter at a challenging time for the legal profession, and she aims to continue to make the organization responsive to the needs of members.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Global Village gets complicated In an increasingly globalized economy, it’s becoming a norm for corporations to do business in countries as far off as China, Brazil, Belgium and Dubai.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Pittsburgh law firms lower 2010 salaries for their first-year associates When Cohen & Grigsby PC increased its starting salary by 10 percent to $110,000 three years ago, Jack Elliott, the Downtown law firm’s CEO, said national firms were driving pay higher and the bump-up was necessary to compete for talent.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Smith: Schnader stronger for past troubles David Smith played a key role in rescuing Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis from the brink seven years ago. Now he will be charged with plotting the 180-lawyer firm’s future as chairman.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Firms work to add value while reducing cost of legal services While many in economically dinged industries have attempted to improve performance and lower prices during a recession, the legal industry is doing so this time.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Distressed asset legal work plentiful in Central Texas Distressed asset legal groups are still plugging away in Central Texas.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Seyfarth joins the march away from lockstep model Seyfarth Shaw LLP is the latest law firm to drop the lockstep compensation model in favor of a merit-based system.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Hinderks looks forward to new challenge of leading Stinson Morrison Hecker For years, Mark Hinderks quietly has built a strong litigation practice in Kansas City and beyond.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 What trial case has given you the most satisfaction? Losing case still was satisfying Jim Milliman, director, Middleton Reutlinger “My greatest satisfaction came from a case that I lost,” Milliman said.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Intellectual property lawyer Amy Cahill planned career in psychology but decided to follow father’s path Amy Cahill remembers having an internal “now or never conversation” when she decided to pursue intellectual property law.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Ken Starr to speak at University of Louisville Ken Starr, the former federal judge and prosecutor who investigated President Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, will be a special guest speaker on Monday, March 22, at the University of Louisville’s Brandeis School of Law.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Sullivan & Worcester grabs group Sullivan & Worcester LLP has snagged a five-lawyer bankruptcy group from cross-town firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP, the acquiring firm confirmed Monday.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-15 Lords place themselves beyond reach of the law Peers who have claimed hundreds of thousands of pounds for homes they rarely visit will escape prosecution through a House of Lords loophole.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-13 Children under 12 ‘can’t be criminals’ The killers of James Bulger should not have been prosecuted for his murder, the new Children’s Commissioner says today in a call for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised from 10 to 12 years old.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-13 Ministry of Justice dismisses adviser's claim The Government has rejected calls from their own adviser to raise the age of criminal responsibility from ten to twelve.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-13 Ministry of Justice dismisses adviser's claim The Government has rejected calls from their own adviser to raise the age of criminal responsibility from ten to twelve.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-13 Interhab files petition with Kansas Supreme Court to reverse $10M in funding cuts A statewide advocacy group has filed a petition with the Kansas Supreme Court to stop funding cuts to organizations that serve people with disabilities.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-13 Sea Gate Plaza project in foreclosure The stalled Sea Gate Plaza office project in Fort Lauderdale could be seized in a foreclosure lawsuit.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-13 NBN hearings extended over retail clause THE Senate select committee on the NBN has called for extra public hearings on the $43 billion fibre broadband project.     australianit.news.com.au   2010-03-12 70 substantiated privacy breaches in 2009: Medicare THERE were 70 substantiated privacy breaches from investigations into around 950 Medicare employees suspected of having had unauthorised access to client records.   australianit.news.com.au   2010-03-12 Roxon releases health identifier rules FEDERAL Health Minister Nicola Roxon has buckled and released proposed draft regulations for the Healthcare Identifiers service.     australianit.news.com.au   2010-03-12 Burberry sues American stores group Burberry is suing a cut-price designer clothing chain in the United States for allegedly selling “counterfeit” versions of the distinctive beige check pattern in its stores.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-12

law news Insider dealer Calvert sentenced to 21 months in prison A former Cazenove partner found guilty of insider dealing was behind bars last night after being sentenced to 21 months imprisonment.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-12 Lehman bosses used accountancy gimmick to cover up debt Dick Fuld, the former chairman and chief executive of Lehman Brothers, and some of his closest lieutenants used a “lazy accounting gimmick” to hide the bank's insolvency, an explosive report by a court-appointed legal examiner has found.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-12 Ernst & Young faces legal action over Lehman collapse Ernst & Young could face legal action after a damning report into the collapse of Lehman Brothers accused the British accountancy firm of professional negligence over a number of years before the catastrophic downfall of the 158-year-old American bank in 2008.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-12 Supreme Court Nigeria ruling reinforces 'divorce capital' reputation London’s reputation as the divorce payout capital of the world was reinforced by the Supreme Court when it overturned a Nigerian ruling that had left a wife penniless.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-12 British law firm cleared way for Lehman cover-up Linklaters, one of Britain’s leading law firms, approved controversial accounting practices that allowed Lehman Brothers to shift billions of dollars of debt off its balance sheet and mask the perilous state of the bank’s finances before its catastrophic collapse in 2008.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-12 Lehman report: the names in the frame In addition to Dick Fuld, a report by Anton Valukas, of Jenner & Block, who was appointed as examiner by the judge handling Lehman’s bankruptcy, implicated several of the Lehman Brothers' chief executive's closest lieutenants, saying there was a "colorable" (credible) legal case against them for their involvement in the accounts reporting scandal.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-12 MN Chief Justice Magnuson to leave in June Judge Eric Magnuson, who has been the chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court for the past two years, plans to leave his post June 30 due to personal reasons.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-12 Senate confirms Hochul as U.S. attorney By a unanimous vote in the United States Senate, attorney William Hochul Jr. was confirmed Thursday as the next United States Attorney for the Western District of New York.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-12 Sally Yates to be U.S. Attorney Sally Yates, the attorney who prosecuted former Mayor Bill Campbell on corruption charges, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be the U.S. attorney for the Northern Circuit of Georgia.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-12 Ex-U’una’i Legal Services director admits theft The former acting executive director of U’una’i Legal Services Corp. pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing $31,292 from the federally funded nonprofit in American Samoa.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-12 Rule to give women more federal contracts Federal agencies could set aside contracts for women-owned small businesses in 83 industries under a new regulation proposed by the U.S. Small Business Administration.   bizjournals.com   2010-03-12 NBN 'dead' without Telstra: Minchin THE opposition says the NBN is "dead in the water" without Telstra's participation.   australianit.news.com.au   2010-03-11 Why is the EU failing to comply with its international law obligations over Israel? If you lived on a street where a neighbour frequently and flagrantly broke the law, you would want something done about it, especially if that neighbour took part of your garden, replaced the fence with a 30ft wall, cut down your trees and redirected your water supply.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-11 Be your own judge: try your hand at sentencing The clamour over Jon Venables highlights a punitive public mood that killings such as that of James Bulger evoke. The case is exceptional but the inclination of the public to tough sentencing is not. Or is it?   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-11 Legal aid lawyers told to wait for their money Jack Straw’s frustrations with the running of the £2.1 billion a year legal aid scheme were laid bare this week along with the policy clashes that have led to the demise of the body in charge.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-11 Lawyer of the Week: Jessica Learmond-Criqui Jessica Learmond-Criqui, a founding partner of Learmond Criqui Sokel, acted for Stephanie Booth (the stepmother of Cherie Booth, QC), who successfully sued for unfair dismissal after losing her job for whistleblowing. She had raised concerns about the lack of health and safety procedures that were putting their charges, vulnerable young people, at risk.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-11 Fraud and corruption is costing Britain £30 billion a year It is almost 25 years since the Roskill Report published its radical recommendations for improving the way complex fraud, corruption and financial market crimes are tackled.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-11 Malcolm Calvert, former Cazenove partner, guilty of insider dealing A former partner at Cazenove was convicted of insider dealing yesterday after making more than £100,000 profit from trading ahead of three takeovers.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-11 Judges fear prisons will burst under new rules Britain’s leading criminal judges warn that a shake-up of sentencing guidelines could push prison overcrowding to crisis levels.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-11 Berezovsky wins High Court damages over Litvinenko murder claim Boris Berezovsky won £150,000 High Court libel damages yesterday over claims on a Russian television broadcast about the radiation poisoning murder of Alexander Litvinenko.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-11 Criminal justice system should stop sending so many people to prison Some crimes are so serious and some criminals so dangerous that prison is the only possible disposal; nobody disputes that. Even so, why have prison numbers burgeoned by nearly 40 per cent since 1997 to a level where we now imprison more per 100,000 of population than any other country in Europe? Where we have more lifers than Russia? How has it come to this?   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-11 Libel laws silenced me, says Francisco Lacerda, critic of lie detector system England’s libel laws have been used to silence scientific critics of lie detection technology on which the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has spent £2.4 million.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-11 Ex-Cazenove partner jailed for 21 months Malcolm Calvert, a former partner at Cazenove, has been sentenced to 21 months imprisonment for insider dealing in the shares of three UK companies.   feeds.timesonline.co.uk   2010-03-11