Law schools will not have to report to the American Bar Association the percentage of their 2010 graduates who landed jobs requiring bar passage or the percentage of graduates in part-time jobs. An ABA committee's finalized list of questions has prompted criticism that the organization is protecting law schools from reporting what would surely be grim s [?]
Steven Thomas, the ex-Sullivan & Cromwell partner who won a half-billion-dollar verdict against BDO Seidman, has taken on Deloitte & Touche, seeking $7.6 billion over claims that the company turned a "willful blind eye" to fraud at bankrupt mortgage issuer Taylor, Bean & Whitaker. [?]
Hedge fund manager J. Ezra Merkin should not be held liable to his investors for investing their money in Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme, a federal judge has ruled. The case goes back to 2008, when New York Law School sued on behalf of itself and similarly situated investors. [?]
Efforts are under way to extradite a New York lawyer arrested in Hong Kong for the theft of client escrow funds. Former Crowell & Moring associate Douglas R. Arntsen is facing a single charge of first-degree grand larceny, a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said Monday. [?]
The legal team assisting Troy Davis included Jason Ewart of Arnold & Porter. Ewart, who witnessed Davis' execution, described working to exonerate a convicted killer, his thoughts on the death penalty, and the feelings stirred up by the death of a man he considered more than a client. [?]
Doug Caddell, CIO at Foley & Lardner, speaks with LTN staff reporter Evan Koblentz at ILTA about his firm's policy of giving lawyers the freedom to buy the technology they need -- instead of dictating choices. Freedom of computing, he says, allows firms to focus more on business issues and less on infrastructure. [?]
When Jonathan Turley is not teaching at George Washington University Law School or blogging, he is a litigator whose cases can never be described as boring. In this video interview with Tony Mauro, Turley discusses his high-profile case on Utah's anti-polygamy law. [?]
George Rudoy, of HSNO (formerly of Integrated Legal Technology), speaks with LTN's Editor-in-Chief Monica Bay about the end of isolated services in law firms. Rudoy discusses the centralization of legal technology in firms looking to modernize and meet budgets across the board. [?]
Tony Mauro talks to Robert Peck, president of the Center for Constitutional Litigation. [?]
Plaintiffs may not proceed with class actions against lawyers and auditors who worked for the defendants in an earlier class action, the 1st Circuit has ruled. The ruling in Zimmerman v. Epstein Becker & Green and Zimmerman v. BDO Seidman LLP, affirmed a dismissal by a Massachusetts federal judge. [?]
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