Freshfields' Pension Plan Sparks Age Discrimination Claim
A former Freshfields partner is claiming that the firm's pension plan discriminated against him on the basis of age. The dispute, being heard in a London employment tribunal, has laid bare Freshfields' recent reform of its unfunded pension scheme. It's one of the first cases brought under age discrimination laws that came into force in the United Kingdom last October. The case has also focused on Freshfields' recent culling of some equity partners and its introduction of nonequity or fixed-share partners.
High Court Loss Prompts Malpractice Claim Against McGuireWoods
A loss before the U.S. Supreme Court has led to an unusual legal malpractice suit against McGuireWoods. Ideal Steel Supply was the losing party in the ruling, which sharply limited third parties' ability to bring civil claims under RICO. Ideal said McGuireWoods botched the case by pursuing a "unique and novel" but ultimately "inappropriate" civil RICO claim. A New York judge has dismissed the RICO-related claim but let Ideal go forward with claims that McGuireWoods' mismanagement resulted in higher bills.
3rd Circuit: Federal Transfer Doesn't Reset SOL Clock
Ruling on an important question of civil procedure, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that when a federal district court transfers a case to another district due to "improper" venue, the original filing in the transferor court is the proper "filing date" for purposes of calculating any statute of limitations period. The court reversed a decision that dismissed an auto accident lawsuit on the grounds that the two-year statute of limitations had run by the time the case was transferred.
How One Part-Time Lawyer Leads a Very Full Life
Virginia Seitz defies stereotypes. She's a star who bills at a 60 percent rate as a Sidley Austin partner, but she also defines herself as part time, arriving at the firm's Washington, D.C., office every day at 6 a.m. and leaving by 2:55 p.m. to pick up her children from school. Her practice area, appellate litigation, fits well with that schedule, allowing Seitz to become the first Sidley woman to argue before the Supreme Court. Seitz is proof that women can work part time and still make partner.
Small-Firm Founder Has a String of Accusers
Sacramento, Calif., litigation boutique Ellis, Coleman, Poirier, LaVoie & Steinheimer touts its mission to promote women in the legal profession. Founded by Mark Ellis last fall, the 13-lawyer firm says it is 50 percent women-owned. But multiple lawsuits filed against Ellis over the past eight years paint a starkly different picture of the attorney's attitude toward women. And according to his former firm, the most recent allegations of misconduct led them to show Ellis the door, a charge Ellis denies.
Why Are More Companies Self-Reporting Overseas Bribes?
An increasing number of businesses are self-reporting Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, and as M&As keep up a record pace, the trend is expected to continue. Alice Fisher, assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's criminal division, says self-reporting is a crucial factor in cutting a business a break in an international bribery case. But outside counsel who advise companies in this area say that businesses should consider other factors before they come to Justice on bended knee.
Building Up In-House Technology
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Need Evidence? Try Asking Google
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Duane Morris Opens Offices in Vietnam
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Cravath Helps Win a New Deal for Liberia
One of the poorest countries in the world, Liberia is actually rich in natural resources, but those industries were largely destroyed by civil war and corruption. Now, Cravath, Swaine & Moore has helped the country's new government renegotiate a billion-dollar iron ore mining contract with Mittal Steel, the world's largest steel company. The agreement has been widely hailed in the international press, and even the harshest critics of the old contract have commended the changes.
Jurors in Conrad Black Trial Didn't Hold Media Mogul's Riches Against Him
Prosecutors told a federal jury a lot about media mogul Conrad Black's grand lifestyle at the expense of shareholders in the Hollinger International media empire he once ran, a lifestyle that defense attorneys feared would appeal to "class prejudice" among the jurors. But in the end, jurors ignored the glittering lifestyle and convicted Black on Friday of siphoning millions of dollars out of the corporate till in a series of paper transactions prosecutors called a "bold money grab."
Gambrell & Stolz Joins Baker Donelson
Gambrell & Stolz has combined with Baker Donelson, an Am Law 200 firm that opened an Atlanta office in 2001. Gambrell & Stolz's 36 lawyers will become part of Baker Donelson's Atlanta office, giving the Tennessee-based firm 50 lawyers in Atlanta and about 500 overall. The heads of both firms said the acquisition will allow them to better serve their clients -- giving Gambrell & Stolz reach outside of Atlanta and beefing up Baker Donelson's Atlanta base for clients of its other offices.
Appeal Now or Later? A Look at Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b)
In federal courts, the general rule is that orders entered during the course of a pending case are not appealable until the entire case has been resolved. This principle, commonly known as the "final judgment rule," provides that earlier rulings that were interlocutory when entered can be appealed at the conclusion of the case if they remain relevant at that point. Litigator and commentator Howard J. Bashman reviews an established exception to the final judgment rule: Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b).
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Why Does This Bun Taste Like Cardboard?
I'm writing a story about China, contaminated imports, the mysteries of the grocery store, the incomprehensibility of modern life, the Cuisinarting of the planet, and the repercussions thereof.
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: Technology distances human beings from the biological, chemical, geological, atmospheric and dare I say molecular substrates of their existence.
But no one listens to me.
Food is the big issue of the future. Food and water. We put this stuff in our bodies and have no idea where it came from. Sometimes I'll be happily snacking on some Pringles and I'll suddenly think: "Something about this doesn't seem entirely natural."
'...In the report aired Wednesday night, China Central Television showed a shirtless, shorts-clad bun maker in Beijing using cardboard picked up off the street to stuff his steamed buns.
'A hidden camera followed the man into a ramshackle building where steamers were filled with the fluffy white buns, called baozi, traditionally stuffed with minced pork.
'It showed how cardboard was first soaked to a pulp in a plastic basin of caustic soda -- a chemical base commonly used in manufacturing paper and soap -- then chopped into tiny morsels with a cleaver. Fatty pork and powdered seasoning were stirred in as flavoring and the concoction was stuffed into the buns.
'"It fools the average person," says the bun maker, whose face was not shown. "I don't eat them myself."'
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Food and Water Watch is a Nader-type group that's been in the news a lot lately. Here's their recent report, "Import Alert."
ChemNutra is an interesting outfit. They're very upset about being caught up in the pet food disaster. And they're not happy with Menu Foods, the company that sold the contaminated pet food.
You've surely read the stories (today in The NY Times, for example) about Zheng Xiaoyu, the head of China's food and drug agency. They sentenced him to death May 29 and executed him Tuesday. The Times has his confession:
"Thinking back on what has happened these year, I start to see the problems clearly. For example, why are the friends who gave me money all bosses of pharmaceutical companies? Obviously, because I was in charge of drug administration. Another example, I've known these old friends for a long time, why did they give me money only after 1998? Obviously, because the State Drug Administration was established in 1998 and then I was given bigger power. Although these friends gave me money partly because of our friendship, they actually were thinking about my power. I am confessing here that I loosened self-discipline, ignored the bottom line. It is bribery if a civil servant receives money from a business....
"The Party and people nurtured me, trusted me and assigned me to such an important position. I didn't live up to the Party's expectation. I loosened ideological reform, loosened self-discipline, harmed the Party and the people, committed crimes, for which I feel regretful. Now I have to treat the issue seriously, conduct a thorough self-examination, confess my mistakes, and treat the punishment and education as an act of saving my soul."
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