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PowerPoint Presentation Sparked Jones Day-Motley Rice ‘Sandbox’ Spat

Updated: It now appears that it wasn’t merely a document but a PowerPoint presentation on legal costs allegedly purloined by an unknown person from a 2004 Sherwin-Williams board meeting that is at issue in a contentious dispute between Jones Day and Motley Rice. Motley Rice, which represents the state of…

Apr 10, 2009 12:59 AM CDT

In Document Dustup, Lawyer Compares Jones Day Team to Kids in a Sandbox

A lawyer who represented the state of Rhode Island in lead paint litigation calls a fight over a legal document a “tempest in a teapot” and criticizes the Jones Day legal team that filed a lawsuit seeking its return. The lawsuit claims Rhode Island’s law firm, Motley Rice, tried to…

Apr 8, 2009 11:44 AM CDT

Delayed Court Appearance May Nix Confession, Supreme Court Rules

The U.S. Supreme Court has revived a controversial ruling of the Warren era in a decision holding that some voluntary confessions may be tossed because of delayed court appearances for suspects. The 5-4 ruling today directed a lower court to determine whether a suspect’s confession, given before a court appearance,…

Apr 6, 2009 3:56 PM CDT

In Search of the Perfect Search

A project closes in on a protocol to improve e-discovery results

Apr 2, 2009 3:40 AM CDT

Who’s Policing the Fourth Amendment?

Two cases push the unevenly enforced exclusionary rule closer to repeal

Apr 2, 2009 1:20 AM CDT

Human Rights Victims Want $5M Accounting From Judge Real

Lawyers battling over funds seized for human rights victims of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos have asked an appeals court to force a controversial federal judge to account for $5 million disbursed from an account controlled by the court while its ownership was being contested. The appeal, filed March…

Mar 31, 2009 6:42 PM CDT

Bizarre $50M Fraud Case Will Help NY Lawyer Challenge Law Office Raid

A prominent New York lawyer complained bitterly when his law office was raided last month by Suffolk County authorities. But now George Guldi is in a better position to object to the warrant that authorized the search and records confiscation, thanks to a bizarre $50 million mortgage-fraud case in which…

Mar 30, 2009 9:49 PM CDT

After Insanity Win in Murder One Case, Lawyer Accuses DA of ‘Incompetence’

A lawyer who won a rare insanity acquittal from a Massachusetts jury last week for a client charged with the first-degree murder of his own mother has blasted the district attorney for taking the case to trial. Despite three expert opinions that his 37-year-old client, Lee Chiero, is insane, Worcester…

Mar 30, 2009 6:51 PM CDT

1st Circuit Ruling Helps Working Moms

Workplace discrimination against pregnant women and women with children is commonplace, many suspect, but hard to prove. But a decision yesterday (PDF) by the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals may offer some relief. Reversing a dismissal, by a federal judge in Maine, the appeals court said plaintiff Laurie…

Mar 27, 2009 9:20 PM CDT

Stanford Receiver Asks Judge for Hunton & Williams Legal Files

A receiver for Stanford Group Co. has asked a federal judge in Dallas to order a law firm that represented an Antigua-based bank at the center of a claimed $8 billion Ponzi scheme allegedly run by Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford to turn over related legal files. The court-appointed receiver,…

Mar 25, 2009 5:47 PM CDT

Lawyers for Woman Injured in Chimp Attack Claim Owner Is Strictly Liable

A Connecticut law firm representing a woman injured in an attack by a pet chimpanzee claims the animal’s owner should be strictly liable for owning a wild animal. Lawyers for the injured woman, Charla Nash, are asking a judge to freeze the assets of the chimp’s owner, Sandra Herold, the…

Mar 25, 2009 2:39 PM CDT

Prosecutor, Judge & 2 Cops Charged By Mich. AG in Detroit Perjury Case

A retired Detroit area prosecutor and a retired Michigan judge have been criminally charged, along with two police officers, concerning an alleged conspiracy to conceal information about a witness in a 2005 drug trial in which all four of the defendants are accused either of participating or turning a blind…

Mar 25, 2009 1:24 AM CDT

Law Firm Revealed Study Suggesting Seroquel Risks

A law firm that represents patients who took the antipsychotic drug Seroquel has revealed documents about a hush-hush study showing patients who took the medicine had a risk of weight gain and diabetes. The so-called Study 15 was disclosed to the Food and Drug Administration but not to doctors or…

Mar 18, 2009 6:19 PM CDT

Discovery Denied in N.Y. Lawyer’s Fraud Claim Concerning Claimed Affair

Seeking to reduce his divorce settlement in a state that still attributes fault between spouses in divorces, a New York lawyer tried to get “liberal discovery” concerning his claim that DNA evidence proves his youngest child was the product of an affair between his wife and a building contractor. But…

Mar 18, 2009 5:52 PM CDT

Lawyers on ‘Heidi Fleiss of Houston’ Client List May Be Interviewed

A few Texas lawyers may soon be feeling a bit uneasy over the latest high-profile prostitution prosecution, if they aren’t already. An arrest of the alleged “Heidi Fleiss of Houston” netted a white-collar client list of 1,500 or so, which includes a number of attorneys, reports the Houston Chronicle, relying…

Mar 17, 2009 10:50 PM CDT

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