Fort Lauderdale associate Jason Weiss is a featured speaker at the 3rd Annual Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Sports and Entertainment Law Symposium scheduled for Saturday, February 20.  Jason is a panelist on the topic Redemption:  Athletes Overcoming Their Indiscretions.  The panel will examine ...

King & Spalding is adding three partners to its litigation practice. Trial lawyers James J. Capra Jr. and James P. Cusick will join the firm’s New York office and Diana L. Weiss will be resident in the Washington D.C. office. All three are former partners at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcli ...

When I first started in private practice, I'd go anywhere to represent someone. I'd drive hours to a courthouse, or meet a client at a convenient place. I went to some interesting places.... Now, a few years later, most meetings are in my office, most cases, close to home. But then there was last Th ...

Three litigation partners have signed on to join King & Spalding's Washington and New York offices. The team, which is joining the firm from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, includes Diana Weiss, James Capra Jr., and James Cusick. Weiss will be...

There have been a number of recent news reports about people choosing to “walk away” from their under water homes. One recent example is this CNN story: Former homeowners may still be on the hook if there’s a difference between what they owed on their mortgage and what the bank cou ...

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. Regular readers of this column are well aware by now that the overall unemployment rate isn't a particularly good indicat ...

strafrechtsblogger - Am Dienstag habe ich gezeigt, weshalb der Kauf der Steuerdaten strafbar ist. Die Daten werden nun trotzdem gekauft. Es ergeben sich mehrere Probleme, die ich kurz darstellen will: Warum weiß in einem Land mit Millionen von Juristen niemand, wie der Kauf der illegal ...

strafrechtsblogger - Am Dienstag habe ich gezeigt, weshalb der Kauf der Steuerdaten strafbar ist. Die Daten werden nun trotzdem gekauft. Es ergeben sich mehrere Probleme, die ich kurz darstellen will: Warum weiß in einem Land mit Millionen von Juristen niemand, wie die der Kauf der ill ...

More 2009 profit numbers are in, this time for law firms based in Boston. And, as we've seen elsewhere, partners in Boston are enjoying record-breaking proits. The Boston Globe reports: Senior lawyers at three of Boston's biggest law firms had their most profitable year ever in 2009, despite wides ...

Scott Greenfield reports this morning on the Innocence Project's announcement of the 250th exoneration of an innocent person. This one was convicted when I was 7, and left prison on parole when I was 12.We as criminal defense lawyers read about exonerations and react. We shake our heads, we get angr ...