• April 11, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Justices bothered by lawyer's disloyalty

    The California Supreme Court sounded ready today to take a stand for client loyalty, signaling a ruling that might limit what lawyers can say and do to oppose the interests of former clients.

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  • September 6, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    Gay Divorce Case Adds to Debate Over Gay Marriage

    Two Dallas men married in Massachusetts will not divorce in Texas — not unless they successfully appeal an Aug. 31 ruling by Dallas' 5th Court of Appeals. In that opinion, a three-justice

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  • November 14, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    New Positions . . . Anthony L. Salvador and Meredith B. Miller have joined Langley Weinstein in Dallas as associates. . . . Laura J. Kissel has been named a par

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  • July 31, 2007 | The Recorder

    Alan Berkowitz

    AFFILIATION: Bingham McCutchenBORN: Sept. 17, 1942LAW SCHOOL: American University Washington College of Law, 1967PREVIOUS JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE: NoneWhen a href="http

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  • June 29, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Supreme Court Rules for White Firefighters

    The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the white firefighters in the reverse discrimination case out of New Haven, Conn., overturning a decision joined by Judge Sonia Sotomayor when it was

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  • February 1, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

    Equal to the Task

    Equal Employment Opportunity commission chairwoman Jacqueline Berrien has staked out an ambitious agenda. In her first eight months on the job, Berrien has vowed to reduce the a

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  • November 27, 2006 | Legal Times

    High court case could imperil pending patents

    When Kenneth Bass III clerked at the Supreme Court in 1969, his justice, the late Hugo Black, told him confidentially what he thought of patents. "He told me that in his lifetime

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  • November 27, 2006 |

    Vaunted Legal Scholar Switches Sides in Supreme Court Patent Case

    One of the nation's top legal scholars on intellectual property has switched sides in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide how patents are granted. Mark Lemley, a Stanford University

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  • December 20, 2010 | National Law Journal

    INADMISSIBLE

    RAISING THE BAR FOR LEGAL AID The economic downturn has stretched legal service providers' budgets to the limit, and Washington law firms aren't donatin

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  • February 6, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Circuit Rejects Judge's Upset of Arbitration Award

    A federal judge was wrong to vacate an arbitral award in an insurance dispute on the grounds that some of the arbitrators did not disclose that they were working on a second dispute that

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