One of the stumbling blocks in the behind the scenes negotiations to craft a bipartisan immigration reform bill that also has the support of business and labor unions has been a proposal to create a commission that would basically determine quotas for all employment-based immigration categories. The ...

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Judge's unrecusal didn't violate defendant's rights Amanda Bronstad January 21, 2010 The California Supreme Court, relying on last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Caperton v. Massey, ruled on Jan. 21 that a judge did not violate a defendant's due process rights by overseeing h ...

Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. If you thought unemployment and underemployment (which does include people who become discouraged and voluntary stop look ...

Kaye Scholer is cutting first year associate salaries to $145k, but unlike many other firms they aren’t doing it under the guise of abandoning lockstep compensation.  Additionally, any associate that hits their billable hour target by December will be getting a bonus that should bring them bac ...

Clickz’s Kate Kaye has a rundown on 2009 developments and trends in social media tools for political and issue advocacy. There were few big elections in 2009, but political and advocacy advertisers took the momentum built in the 2008 presidential elections and ran with it. From a surge in Twit ...

Changes are happening in Arizona, though cause and effect remains somewhat unclear.  Not that it really matters, as movements take on a life of their own.  Along with the extremely successful lawyer rally came Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk's op-ed in the Arizona Republic.&n ...

John J.P. Howley, a former partner at Kaye Scholer and head of the firm's pro bono practice, was suspended last week for six months by the Appellate Division, 1st Department, for failure to file or pay personal income taxes for more than 10 years.

Two lawyers had their licenses suspended last week for a failing to pay taxes. The two had been under investigation since last year. The lawyers, John J.P. Howley, the former head of pro bono at Kaye Scholer, and Ronald A. Goldman, a partner at Manning Raab Dealy & Sturm, had previously plead ...

"We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas? since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny f*&king Kaye."