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  • September 1, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

    Limiting Liability

    Does it make sense to put a company in the dock? Federal prosecutors have long contended that a business-and not just its employees-can be held liable for wrongdoing committed by its emp

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  • March 3, 2010 | National Law Journal

    ASSOCIATE MOVERS

    PROMOTIONS TO PARTNER Jenner & Block (Chicago): Ten associates have been promoted to partnership at the firm. They are Christine L.

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  • July 19, 2011 | National Law Journal

    NY Lawyer J. Paul Oetken Confirmed as Nation's First Openly Gay Judge

    The U.S. Senate yesterday overwhelmingly confirmed the nomination of J. Paul Oetken to a Southern District judgeship, making him the first openly gay judge on the federal bench./p

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  • September 15, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Insurance Coverage

    Like many issues before it, global warming has begun to cross over from the public-policy arena into litigation. In the last few years, a wide range of plaintiffs have brought actions ag

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  • March 10, 2003 | Legal Times

    Court Approves 3 Strikes, Megan's Laws

    In a quartet of decisions handed down March 5, the Supreme Court gave its general approval to two tough-on-crime trends that swept the nation in the 1990s: Megan's laws and three-strikes

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  • December 21, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    A Comprehensive Study of Supreme Court Clerks

    Does a firm's hiring of U.S. Supreme Court clerks say something about its political leanings? Which firm has hired predominantly from Justices Stephen Breyer, John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Sandra D

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  • November 3, 2003 | Legal Times

    Docket Watch: November 2003

    Below are cases coming before the Supreme Court in the coming weeks and the lawyers who will argue them. "Docket Watch" appears at the beginning of each two-week argument cycle when t

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  • March 25, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    Death Row Inmate's Age May Save Him at High Court

    DALLAS -- At age 17, Anzel Keon Jones, a high school sophomore, played football, ran track, partied on weekends -- and murdered a woman and sexually assaulted her mother.Jones, whose n

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  • August 16, 2007 | Legal Times

    Reading the Roberts Court

    The first full term of the Roberts Supreme Court was a blockbuster, with major rulings on abortion rights, school integration and campaign finance reform. The Court's conservative w

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  • December 13, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Texas Redistricting Case

    The battle over congressional redistricting in Texas isn't over yet. On Dec. 12, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear four consolidated cases brought by opponents o

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