Good news about Katrina's displaced for a change: "Sofia Lavidalie was not yet three years old when her parents, Jean and Dianna had to tell her that they could not go home to Louisiana because their house was wet."The explanation was oversimplified but accurate in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In the days immediately following the catastrophe, the young family of three sought...
Excellent news! "Miss Wibke Timmermann -- a 30 year-old German legal assistant working in a defence team at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) -- is to receive the Henri Dunant Award 2006 for her international law dissertation, specializing in hate speech and war propaganda. "She carried out this work after studying at the University Centre for International...
I guess this shouldn't be surprising news to anyone who's followed the Enron mess: "To the list of employees, investors and businesses who suffered financial misfortune in Enron Corp.'s demise, add this one: the law firm defending former chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling. "Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers LLP, which has represented Skilling on both civil and criminal charges...
So said Patricia Glaser, a name partner at embattled Christensen Glaser when talking about a recent raise for associates: "Two Los Angeles law firms recently raised their first-year associate salaries while facing key partner departures and a federal criminal probe into whether lawyers engaged in illegal wiretapping. "Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger, whose top...
Nice to hear from the ABA about this important issue: "May 9, 2006 -- American Bar Association President Michael S. Greco today called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to carry out 'a thorough inquiry into the nature and extent of the warrantless domestic surveillance conducted by the administration,' and called any legislative action 'premature' until such an inquiry has taken place....