Orrick Ends Lockstep

(Above the Law)
... its clients from the Global Operations Center in Wheeling, West Virginia. In every area of practice, the firm has sought to identify tasks and processes that can be disaggregated from the delivery of high-value legal advice and executed in an integrated, ... ? Orrick wasn't able to respond to our immediate request for more information about the 2010 compensation structure. The WSJ Law Blog has this to say about future salaries at Orrick: Orrick will adopt a new comp schedule in 2010. The "custom" ...
July 1, 2009 12:54 pm
... comes only a day after a survey of in-house departments found the widespread perception that law firms are not interested in change. We've reported on Orrick's new ... press release is below. We'll chew it over later this afternoon on Cal Law, and in tomorrow's Recorder. Press release after the jump. Orrick Announces ... Center in Wheeling, West Virginia. In every area of practice, the firm has sought to identify tasks and processes that can be disaggregated from the delivery of high-value legal advice ...
July 1, 2009 11:40 am
... contributions from interested parties create the appearance of bias. By a 5-4 vote in a case from West Virginia, the court said that a judge who remained involved in a lawsuit filed against the company of ... $79.5 million award to a smoker's widow, ending a 10-year legal fight over the large payout. The court let stand a ruling by the Oregon Supreme ... court's liberals, it ruled that smokers may use state consumer protection laws to sue cigarette makers for the way they promote light and "low tar" ...
July 1, 2009 11:21 am
Yesterday, Chief Justice John Roberts attended the Fourth Circuit judicial conference at the Greenbriar, in West Virginia, where he was interviewed by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson. Among the exchanges was the following: JUDGE WILKINSON: .... But looking ... the case on a much narrower ground. So no, I mean, there are situations where the court obviously has to resolve, as a legal matter, issues that are of great political significance. But as Marshall did, I think it's important to look and see if you ...
June 28, 2009 06:29 am

Doing justice versus making rules.

(Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity)
... $50 million for fraudulent misrepresenta-tion, concealment, and tortious interference with existing contractual relations. Knowing the West Virginia Supreme Court would consider an appeal of the verdict, Don Blankenship, Massey's chairman and principal officer, ... against the man who got him elected. Justice Kennedy, writing for a majority of the Court, concluded that the primary legal quesiton is whether "under a realistic appraisal of psy-chological tendencies and human weakness," the interest " ...
June 22, 2009 09:50 am
... been revoked by operation of law. Reilly, supra, 201 N.J. Super. at 312. Other jurisdictions have also ruled in this manner. The court in Reilly cited to the Virginia Supreme Court ... NJ Family Issues, is managed by Paul G. Kostro, Esq., an attorney/lawyer/mediator. Legal and mediation services are offered to Polish-speaking and other clients in Union, ... and prenuptial agreements, midmarriage and marital agreements. My Law Office is located at 726 West Saint Georges [W. St. Georges] Avenue (Route 27), ...
June 17, 2009 03:12 am
... metadata opinion by Brian Peterson at West Virginia Legal Weblog. The West Virginia Lawyer Disciplinary Board also issued Legal Ethics Opinion 2009-02 (Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Law Firms) on June 10, 2009. This opinion looks at the question of whether one law ... Board concluded that law firms are allowed to form wholly-owned subsidiary entities but cautioned that law firms should keep these entities transparent and fully disclose to the public and clients the relationship among ...
June 16, 2009 08:41 pm
On June 10, the West Virginia Bar released its ethics opinion on What is Metadata and Why Should Lawyers Be Cautious? Legal Ethics Opinion 2009-01 (PDF). The opinion addresses two problems: (1) whether an attorney has a duty to ... "it's always safer to notify the sender before searching electronic documents for metadata." What is Metadata and Why Should Lawyers be Cautious? - W.Va. Legal Ethics Opinion 2009-01 Publish at Scribd or explore others: Technology Business & Law metadata legal ethics
June 16, 2009 12:04 am

Paralegals in the News

(Practical Paralegalism)
... Firm, P.C., has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in all aspects of legal services. With 17 years of professional experience, Ms. Damjanovich is responsible for litigation, drafting documents, mailing, scheduling, billing, ... complete paralegal studies at NCSC, then study prelaw at Ashland University and law at University of Toledo. (Mansfield News Journal) West Virginia legal assistant and office manger Beth L. Thompson has been recognized by ...
June 14, 2009 08:52 am
... the Supreme Court to announce a broad principle of law. Instead, as the majority concedes, Caperton is an "extreme case" and only rarely will be applied. It is true that extreme cases often test the bounds of established legal principles, and sometimes no administrable standard may ... under the objective standard already in place under the ABA's rules of judicial conduct: Almost every State-West Virginia included-has adopted the American Bar Association's objective standard: "A judge shall avoid ...
June 13, 2009 06:46 am
... Here and Link on Our Web Page Salt Lake City, Utah - the fate of Anthony, who is a boy who has been at the center of a legal battle between his biological mother, a traditional surrogate, his father (intended & biological) and his adoptive ... one should only make after careful deliberation; however, I am on the fence on this one. Anyone care to educate me on this one? West Virginia - Lesbian moms can keep foster child - ruling confirmed. The court was originally against the "untraditional" ...
June 12, 2009 12:30 pm

Summary 2009 WY 77

(Law Library Letter)
... of the community. In addition, he asserted that the district court refused to consider probation in violation of established legal principles. Make-up of Jury Panel: The clerk's method for jury selection: before each term ... list. The Court reviewed other jurisdictions' decisions on this issue including Montana in State v. Azure, West Virginia, Arkansas in Henry v. State, Georgia, United States v. Eyster and United States v. Puleo from the 11th Circuit and Walker v. Goldsmith from the 9th Circuit. ...
June 12, 2009 03:56 am

Follow the Money

(The Briefcase)
... school civics, but he sure understands the electoral process pretty well. After a West Virginia jury hit up his coal company with a $50 million verdict, ... Kennedy's opinion for the majority gives one an understanding of the difference between ethics and legality: while Benjamin's action seems obviously wrong, fashioning a constitutional rule to ... had been replaced, and their three replacements all voted to uphold the new law. In fact, back in 2006 the New York Times did a study of the Ohio Supreme ...
June 12, 2009 03:45 am
... pay can be extremely difficult. The organization, requires investors to run a gantlet of legal technicalities that would challenge even those knowledgeable about securities law. Some securities lawyers say this is because trustees overseeing the cases are ... an expression of congressional solicitude for the victims and of a congressional desire to help them, is just too much. The West Virginia judge was forbidden to do this because of a campaign contribution of "only" three million dollars. Picard, ...
June 11, 2009 11:22 am
... Virginia law, a birth mother can reclaim custody of her child if she shows rehabilitation, but B.G.C.'s birth mother proved incapable of ... terminate the foster placement at that time. "It was thus inappropriate for the lower court to rule as a matter of law on the subject of the propriety of joint adoption of a child by a same-sex couple because it was not a ... no legal reason for the court to remove B.G.C. from the only home she has known." The court also pointed out that West Virginia law actually ...
June 11, 2009 08:42 am

Ohio: Land of the Lost

(Bank Lawyer's Blog)
... inspectors engaged in a pattern of malicious prosecution against the bank. [...] The lawsuit invokes a section of federal law - popularly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act - most often used today in ... property even if the bank doesn't own the property, apparently under some legal theory concocted during an all-nighter spent consuming mushroom caps and ... hire legal gunslingers to ride into town and make you cry like a little girl, John. That's what happens when you try to bully people from West Virginia. ...
June 9, 2009 07:19 pm
... that are raised by the Chief Justice's 40 questions are also ambiguities in the state law of recusal. As the Caperton majority notes, West Virginia has adopted the ABA test for appearance of impropriety: "whether the conduct would create in ... a due process claim that a non-recusing judge's participation tainted the outcome of proceedings--which is addressed to the legal judgment of a reviewing court. One could think that the ambiguity of the ethics rules is acceptable in the former context but not ...
June 9, 2009 06:32 pm

THIS COULD BE A PROBLEM

(Justice Building Blog)
... recent decision in Caperton v. A.T. Massey. The case reached the Supremes when the West Virginia Supreme Court (motto: "readin and writin at the highest legal levels") voted 3-2 to overturn a 50 million dollar verdict. Una momento por favor: One of the Justices ... we see our first "Caperton motion" to disqualify a Judge in Dade because the attorney for one of the parties works in a law firm that raised a $100,000.00 for the Judge? And once that happens, and it will, who will ...
June 9, 2009 05:06 pm
... on the Supreme Court of Appeals' website, but was described as "personal" and "not a release of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia." For coverage of the decision, let me start with Paul Nyden's article in today's Charleston Gazette, and ... jeopardy cases cited in his dissent. Carolyn Elefant of Legal Blog Watch wrote this post yesterday about the decision, with links to Mauro, Lyle Dennis at SCOTUSBlog, and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley. Also, here is some ...
June 9, 2009 03:25 pm
... any event, Jefferson's trial is slated to begin today down in northern Virginia. First up, of course, selecting a jury, so it might be a day or two before ... owned by his family in return for his help winning approval of projects in several West African nations. Jefferson throughout has maintained his innocence. If convicted ... projects in western Africa in return for payments for his family. But Jefferson's legal team, led by Washington lawyer Robert Trout of Trout Cacheris, argues that the government ...
June 9, 2009 08:22 am
 
 

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