Tony Mauro looks at the Supreme Court's opinion in Medellin v. Texas. The 6-3 ruling, a slam to both the international court and the Bush administration, may be more symbolic than tangible for now, Mauro says, but it promises to fuel a long-simmering debate over international law and court decisions in jurisprudence and U.S. lawmaking.
Marisa McQuilken reports that firms are starting to cash in on the legal battles over climate change. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and Vinson & Elkins have all created a climate change brand in the last year or so. In fact, 26 Am Law 100 firms tout some form of a climate change practice, and a handful of others hype clean technology groups.
Jeff Horwitz has this profile on the Center for Technology and Democracy — "a strange bird," he says, "that defends the Internet's ideals of openness, equality and anonymity by working hand in hand with the commercial interests that often seem to threaten them."
For the last few weeks, we followed a jury trial in D.C. Superior Court that laid bare compensation policy at a major law firm. Well, show's over. A jury Friday awarded former Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal partner Douglas Rosenthal at least some of the compensation he claims is owed to him by the firm, McQuilken reports.
More than six years after the collapse of Enron Corp. heralded a new era of corporate investigations and compliance, attorneys at the fraud section of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division are back on the trail of misdeeds on Wall Street, writes Pedro Ruz Gutierrez. But this time around there are no presidential or federal multiagency task forces being assembled to probe the subprime crisis. Instead, Justice Department prosecutors in the fraud section are still grappling with legal theories and what laws might apply.
ConsumerAffairs.com is a forum for consumers to air their gripes about everything from allegedly explosive Martha Stewart patio furniture to predatory lenders. But it's arrangement with a group of Illinois-based consumer attorneys, who pick through the gripes for work, rubs some people the wrong way — Thomas Nemet, for instance, who is suing the Web site for defamation and a violation of the Lanham Act. Joe Palazzolo has this story on the lawsuit.
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