1. Law School Professor Withdraws Suit Against Legal Blog 3 hours ago   permalink

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A law school professor has withdrawn a suit accusing legal blog Above the Law of publishing a "viciously racist series of rants" after reporting his arrest for suspicion of soliciting prostitution. David Lat, the blog's managing editor, declined comment Thursday, but on Wednesday he wrote that there had been no settlement and that the posts ...

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Law School Professor Withdraws Suit Against Legal Blog Law Profs Gone Wild! UT’s Bobbitt Slams Milberg in Suit   —  University of Texas law professor Phillip Bobbitt earlier this week sued the law firm formerly known as Milberg Weiss, alleging malpractice in a suit in which he was a plaintiff.

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Law School Professor Withdraws Suit Against Legal Blog The Issues in Moving From Law Firm Lockstep to 'Levels' Compensation   —  Law firms are changing the way they hire, evaluate, develop, promote and pay their associates, says consultant Larry Richard. Case in point: the accelerating interest among law firms in moving from the traditional lockstep to a more performance-based "levels" system of compensation. Richard notes that for a levels system to work, a firm needs ...

2. Pay-to-Play? Not so much 7 hours ago   permalink

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An article published earlier this year may puncture the long-held belief that elected public pension fund trustees solicit (and receive) election contributions from plaintiff-side law firms in exchange for favorable treatment when those trustees are selecting outside counsel to represent the pension fund in securities litigation.

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3. Expanding Insider Trading Probe Nets Lawyers 3 hours ago   permalink

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Two lawyers were among several people arrested Thursday in a rapidly expanding hedge fund insider trading scandal. Arthur J. Cutillo allegedly gave information about mergers and acquisitions he gleaned as an associate at Ropes & Gray to Jason Goldfarb, an associate with the personal injury firm Brecher Fishman Pasternack Walsh Tilker & Ziegler. ...

4. NEU - alternative Stromerzeugung - fair-News.de 3 hours ago   permalink

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5. DOJ Pushes 'Comprehensive Approach' to Discovery Reform 3 hours ago   permalink

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At an ABA panel discussion Thursday, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman underlined his and others' support for strengthening a federal rule that spells out the government's obligation to turn over favorable evidence to defense lawyers. To address the judiciary's concern, the Justice Department is implementing a mandatory annual training program ...

6. New England Marriage Campaign 7 hours ago   permalink

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New England is on the forefront of the marriage equality movement. GLAD’s historic 2003 victory in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health made Massachusetts the first state in the country to grant same-sex couples the rights and respect of full marriage equality. Although initially an old 1913 law was used to prevent most non- ...

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7. "SCHUMER ANNOUNCES ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION HAS AGREED TO TRANSLATE VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS INTO ASIAN ... 8 hours ago   permalink

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"SCHUMER ANNOUNCES ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION HAS AGREED TO TRANSLATE VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS INTO ASIAN LANGUAGES BEFORE START OF 2010 PRIMARIES"

8. Stanley Kutler on Wisconsin Judicial Election Controversy 8 hours ago   permalink

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9. Final Brief Filed in Libertarian Party of New Hampshire Presidential Substitution Lawsuit 10 hours ago   permalink

Richard / Ballot Access News

Here is the Libertarian Party’s response brief in Libertarian Party of New Hampshire v Gardner, the federal case over whether unqualified parties should be allowed to use stand-in presidential candidates on their petitions. Although it is short (only five pages), it has a good compendium of other federal court decisions that say in some [...]

10. Former top judge to lead Working Families Party probe 11 hours ago   permalink

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The labor-backed political organization hires former New York state Court of Appeals Judge Judith Kaye to review its operations after critics charged it skirted certain laws.

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Long wait about over for Baltimore judge   —  It's been nine years since federal Judge Andre Davis of Baltimore was first nominated to fill the "Maryland seat" on the federal Court of Appeals. It's been seven months since President Barack Obama re-nominated Davis for the same position--which has remained vacant, thanks to political stalemate in Washington, since the death of Judge Francis D. ...

11. Two Independents Elected to Virginia Legislature This Week 11 hours ago   permalink

Richard / Ballot Access News

On November 3, the two Virginia state legislators who were running for re-election were re-elected. They are Lacey Putney in the 19th district, and Watkins M. Abbitt in the 59th district. Putney was re-elected with 64.1% of the vote. His only opponents were a Democrat, Lewis Medlin, who got 20.6%, and a Constitution Party [...]

12. U.S. Supreme Court Receives Request to Hear Petition Privacy Case 13 hours ago   permalink

Richard / Ballot Access News

On November 6, the proponents of privacy for Washington state referendum petitions asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their appeal. Here is the brief. As noted earlier, on September 10 the U.S. District Court in Washington state had ordered the Washington Secretary of State not to release the names and addresses of [...]

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Cert Petition Filed in Washington Referendum Signer Disclosure Case   —  You can read it here. UPDATE: More from Ballot Access News on other suits raising similar issues....

13. Patent Prosecution Tips: Drafting Preambles 13 hours ago   permalink

Dennis Crouch / Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)

In a recent posting on Patently-O , I asked for advice on whether it is a better practice to use a generic preamble (e.g., "A method comprising") versus a more detailed preamble (e.g., "A method for content selection of digital media stored in a memory…., the method comprising"). Ron Slusky has provided his suggestions in ...

14. Paul Hollander on the Fall of Communism 13 hours ago   permalink

Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy

This fall is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and other events associated with the collapse of communism. Paul Hollander, a sociologist who has written numerous works on communism and Western attitudes towards it, has an op ed in the Washington Post, noting some of the lessons of the communist [...]

15. ‘Tis the Season: Cleary Matches Cravath Bonuses 14 hours ago   permalink

‘Tis the Season: Cleary Matches Cravath Bonuses
Ashby Jones / WSJ.com

This just in: Cleary Gottlieb has matched the Cravath bonuses we reported early this week. The memo reads as follows (click here to read the PDF): -- MEMORANDUM FOR ALL ASSOCIATES ON THE U.S. SALARY SCALE Re: 2009 Bonuses On behalf of the partners of the Firm, we are pleased to announce year-end bonuses for associates in good standing on the U.S. ...

16. BT Wins Again: Second Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment and $175,000 Fee Award 14 hours ago   permalink

Julie Ahrens / Stanford Center for Internet and Society

After years of litigation based on spurious allegations of copyright infringement, BT was vindicated again this week when the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the case on summary judgment and the award of $175,000 in attorneys' fees to BT. The Second Circuit's summary order (attached) confirms that plaintiffs cannot ...

17. November 3 election results for Libertarian candidates 14 hours ago   permalink

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Dan Halloran was elected to the New York City Council in District 19 (Queens). He was nominated by the Republican, Conservative, Independent and Libertarian parties.

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18. "Low Turnout in Virginia: It's Also About Felon Disenfranchisement" 16 hours ago   permalink

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Tova Wang blogs....

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"Why Drug Companies Should Beware Of Doing Business In West Virginia"   —  Beck and Herrmann explain why the Mountain State's inroads on the learned intermediary doctrine are a serious matter, especially since forum-shopping could lead to the application of the state's liberal rule to drug injuries alleged to have occurred in other...

19. New Jersey and Indiana Casinos May Not Eject Blackjack Players for Card Counting 15 hours ago   permalink

Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy

From Donovan v. Grand Victoria Casino & Resort (Oct. 30), in which the Indiana Court of Appeals so holds, and cites a 1982 New Jersey case so holding: [The casino] may not simply take refuge in the common law right of exclusion, inasmuch as it is the public policy of this State that gambling is subject [...]

20. Holy Bat Brother! Was Director’s Kin Plotting Escape? 16 hours ago   permalink

Holy Bat Brother! Was Director’s Kin Plotting Escape?
Dionne Searcey / WSJ.com

Matthew Nolan, the jailed brother of “The Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan, incarcerated in Chicago, apparently attempted a dastardly deed that none has achieved before him: an escape from the high rise federal Metropolitan Correctional Center.