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Wrong-way Driver In NY Crash Was Drunk
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2009/08/01 09:15
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The Associated Press reports that a mother who drove the wrong way on an expressway, triggering a three-car crash that killed eight people, had been drinking vodka and smoking marijuana and had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit, police said Tuesday.
Diane Schuler, 36, who died along with her 2-year-old daughter and three nieces in her red minivan, had more than 10 drinks of alcohol in her system and a high level of the main ingredient in marijuana, authorities said. A broken 1.75-liter bottle of Absolut vodka was found in her wrecked minivan, police said.
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Investigators: Law Firm Lied For Foreign Workers
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2009/07/31 09:02
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span id=slt_sitespan id=slt_articlep The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that Lance Starr says he and other immigration attorneys in Utah had heard complaints about The Alcala Law Firm but didn't have evidence until recently of any possible illegalities in how it handled cases./ppBut then two former employees of the Glendale firm asked him last year to review their applications to legalize their presence in the United States, which had been prepared by principle attorney James Hector Alcala but rejected by the government. Starr spotted what appeared to be forged letters verifying that one of them had worked for Mexican employers.span
/span/ppspanThe American Fork attorney -- who had worked for the Alcala firm for less than a year beginning in 2006 and now has his own practice -- knew his former colleague had been living in Utah during the time he supposedly worked in Mexico. Starr felt ethically obligated to report his suspicions to the US Attorney's Office./span
/ppThe evidence likely was included in a federal investigation that resulted in an indictment unsealed Tuesday against Alcala, his law firm, seven current or former employees and a property management company./p/span/span |
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Three Firms Advise On Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal
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2009/07/30 09:09
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According to The American Lawyer, three firms have landed key advisory roles on one of the most significant non-Mamp;A commercial transactions in recent months: the 10-year Internet search deal announced on Wednesday between Microsoft and Yahoo that seeks to scuttle Google's market dominance.
Under the terms of the deal, Yahoo will use and promote Microsoft's new Bing search engine on its site. Yahoo will also keep 88 percent of revenue from all search ad sales for the first five years and have the right to sell ads on select Microsoft sites.
While the lack of an up-front payment by Microsoft caused shares of Yahoo to sink early Wednesday,span style=text-decoration: underline/span the deal is a clear shot across the bow of Google, the dominant force in online search and advertising.
Yahoo turned to a team of lawyers from Skadden, Arps, Slate amp; Flom and Sheppard Mullin Richter amp; Hampton for the agreement with Microsoft. |
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Holland Knight Cuts Compensation
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2009/07/29 11:05
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The JD Journal reports that Florida’s Holland amp; Knight is cutting salaries for associates and senior counsel. The firm says the cuts average 7% across all those effected; 10% for associates.
This salary reductions are effective immediately.
Holland amp; Knight is reviewing its associate compensation scheme, and intends to implement changes next year.
Holland amp; Knight cut 70 lawyers and 173 support staff positions in February.
Holland amp; Knight is a law firm with more than 1,150 lawyers in 23 US offices. Foreign offices include Beijing, China, and Mexico City, Mexico, with representative offices in Caracas, Venezuela, and TelAviv, Israel. |
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Morris Manning To Cut Associate Pay By Up To 15 Percent
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2009/07/28 09:01
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| pAccording to the Fulton County Daily Report, Morris, Manning amp; Martin has joined the growing ranks of Atlanta-based firms cutting associate pay. The firm announced Friday that, effective Aug. 1, pay in the real estate, lending and tax groups will drop by 15 percent and pay for other associates will drop by 10 percent, according to its managing partner, Robert E. Saudek. Bonuses are not affected./ppSaudek said a decline in legal work plus the readjustment of the associate salary market prompted the cuts. Clients are not generating as much legal work, particularly in the real estate and corporate areas, as they do most years, he said in a voice mail. Billable rates are receiving a lot of pressure, and billable hours are not as high as in prior years./ppSaudek added that the market salary for associates is resetting at lower rates. He noted starting salaries increased 45 percent between 2005 and 2008, but now are declining by about 10 percent. We feel we need to be with the market, but not above it, he said./ppStarting pay at Atlanta's big firms jumped to $145,000 at the beginning of 2008. That has been followed by waves of layoffs this year./ppMorris Manning has 156 lawyers, with 55 associates, according to the Martindale-Hubbell Web site./p |
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Former Staff Attorney's Discrimination Suit Against Covington Back On Track
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2009/07/27 10:04
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According to The National Law Journal, a federal judge on Friday revived the discrimination suit filed by former Covington amp; Burling staff attorney Yolanda Young against her old firm. Last we reported, Judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia had dismissed the case after Young and her attorney, Latif Doman of Doman Davis, failed to show up in court.
Young asked the judge to reconsider, saying that Doman had simply written down the wrong time for the conference on his calendar. She pointed out that although the judge had dismissed the case without prejudice, more than 90 days had passed since she received a right-to-sue notice from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Therefore, she would not be able to file another claim under Title VII or the D.C. Human Rights Act. That was far too harsh a penalty for a small oversight, Young contended.
Walton seems to have agreed. The case is back on, with the next status conference scheduled for Dec. 18.
Young, for those who don't recall, is the writer who after leaving Covington, published a long essay on the Huffington Post comparing conditions at her erstwhile employer to the Jim Crow South. |
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