Church and State (Court): Legal Claims Over Land Filed Over Episcopal Breakaways
Monday, February 5, 2007
Legal claims were flying last week between the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and 11 breakaway congregations regarding valuable property in Northern Virginia.
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Second Thoughts: Plea Deals Being Offered in Drug Cases
Monday, February 5, 2007
Tenants in two buildings operated by convicted slumlord David Nuyen will get a chance to organize and possibly buy the buildings.
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Hurry Please: Gitmo Lawyers Ask for Quicker Response to Appeals
Monday, February 5, 2007
Last week, a coterie of attorneys representing Guantánamo detainees filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit asking it to speed up its response to their appeal.
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Latham’s Links: Firm Hires Another Enron Prosecutor
Monday, February 5, 2007
Latham & Watkins nabbed a second former Enron prosecutor last week when Kathryn Ruemmler joined the D.C. office as a partner in the litigation department.
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Working Lunch: Miller Calls Merger a Good Fit
Monday, February 5, 2007
R. Charles Miller is the administrative partner of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis' Washington, D.C., office, formed from the Jan 1. merger between Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham and Preston Gates & Ellis. He sat down Legal Times to discuss the merger and K&L; Gates' future plans.
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Audit Shows Kinks in Court Computer System
Monday, February 5, 2007
A consultant's report concludes that the multimillion-dollar computer system purchased by the D.C. Superior Court is a flat-out lemon, and it has entirely inadequate financial controls.
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Official's Romance Raises Conflict Questions
Monday, February 5, 2007
Sue Ellen Wooldridge (right), the former head of the Justice Department's environmental section, resigned her position last month just as her paramour, J. Steven Griles, learned he was under investigation in the Abramoff scandal. Wooldridge kept her relationship with Griles secret from officials at Justice and at the Interior Department and from senators at her confirmation.
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Libby Trial Makes for Strange Bedfellows
Monday, February 5, 2007
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald was forced to rely on some unlikely allies last week to make his case against Scooter Libby — reporters Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller (right). And guess who suddenly was defending Miller's right to not divulge her sources?
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Rent Control: Buildings Owned by Convicted Slumlord Could Be Bought
Monday, February 5, 2007
It appears prosecutors don’t really want to put a cocaine-abusing informant who crashed an unmarked police car on the stand. Several defense attorneys said prosecutors began offering plea deals last week in some drug cases that had been scheduled for trial.
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MWE Opens Firm in China
Monday, February 5, 2007
McDermott Will & Emery said last week that it is entering into an alliance with a Chinese firm aimed at overcoming hurdles that have limited the type of services global law firms can offer their clients in China.
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In Fond Remembrance of Father Drinan
Monday, February 5, 2007
Members of Congress, and former and current students, celebrate the life of the late professor and politician Rev. Robert Drinan (right).
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A Congressional Storm Over The Bush 'Surge'
Monday, February 5, 2007
Democrats are talking tough about limiting the power of the administration to send more troops into Iraq. But what can they really do about it?
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Keeping Score
Monday, February 5, 2007
After less than two years at the D.C. office of New York-based Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, antitrust guru Steven Sunshine (right) jumped to M&A; powerhouse Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's Washington office last week, bringing most of Cadwalader's antitrust team with him. Plus more weekly news and notes from the legal business scene...
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The Common Good: Legal-Aid Groups Line Up for District Cash
Monday, February 5, 2007
Local legal-aid groups hope a $3.2 million infusion of public funds will help them represent a myriad of poor people that need legal help, but it remains to be seen how the money will be spent.
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Associates Call and Law Firms Respond
Monday, February 5, 2007
In a Friday afternoon cacophony, several firms, such as Arnold & Porter; Latham & Watkins; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; and Sidley Austin, joined the ranks of the associate-salary war.
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Bush to Nominate Friedrich for Kessler Seat
Friday, February 2, 2007
President George W. Bush is expected to nominate former White House insider Dabney Friedrich to fill the recently vacated seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, two sources familiar with the process say.
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Three More Firms Raise First-Year Associate Pay
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
WilmerHale, Steptoe & Johnson, and Patton Boggs raised pay for first-year associates in their D.C. offices to $145,000 Wednesday, joining the competition and establishing a new benchmark in the Washington market.
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Stock-Scam Defendant Struggles in SEC Fight
Monday, January 29, 2007
The city's best-known white-collar defendant says he needs the cooperation of prosecutors to defend himself against charges of securities fraud. The government, unsurprisingly, doesn't seem to like that idea.
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Keeping Score
Monday, January 29, 2007
The legal community was out in force Jan. 22 for opening night of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's "Richard III." Plus Venable's Washington office is at it again with more hires, and more weekly news and notes from the legal business scene...
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On the Merits: Searching for Cully Stimson
Monday, January 29, 2007
The Pentagon's thrown a blanket over Cully Stimson (right). It's even possible that his now-infamous remarks concerning Guantánamo Bay detainees and their high-powered legal counsel will be the last time he is allowed to speak publicly for the government.
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