LJN Newsletters

  • The Case for Mentorship

    Career guidelines, career plans and mentors. These are familiar terms to most lawyers, especially law students and laterals looking for the right 'fit.' And many, if not most, large law firms highlight one or more of these career-planning tools on their Web sites and recruiting materials. But the 'inside' story of their effectiveness might not be as rosy. Several recent articles in legal journals and newspapers have bemoaned the state of mentoring programs at larger firms, saying that they are boilerplate, empty promises designed to recruit, and that they are usually unsuccessful due to lack of follow-up. Here's how our company overcame these problems.

    May 30, 2007Kristy Weathers

  • Business Crimes Hotline

    Rulings of interest from around the country.

    May 30, 2007ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • In the Courts

    Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.

    May 30, 2007ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Can Money Laundering 'Travel with the Business'?

    It can often be difficult for a white-collar attorney, who may have at least a passing familiarity with money laundering, to explain to a corporate attorney colleague how federal money laundering laws can impact deals on which the corporate attorney is advising clients. This article provides an example that may help you explain to your corporate law colleagues the impact that the federal money laundering laws could have on their work.

    May 30, 2007William V. Roppolo

  • Whither the Guidelines?

    You might be forgiven for concluding that the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines were largely a thing of the past following the Supreme Court's decision two years ago in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005). The Court held that the Guidelines were purely advisory ' not mandatory ' and just one among many factors to be consulted in meting out a sentence under 18 U.S.C. ' 3553(a). Other factors specified in ' 3553(a) include such…

    May 30, 2007Jeffrey T. Green and Quin M. Sorenson

  • The Globalization of Investigations

    Over the past several years, the Department of Justice ('DOJ') has expanded its tools and efforts to gather evidence from abroad and reciprocate by helping foreign prosecutors gather evidence in the United States. For a client whose primary presence is in this country, cross-border cooperation among law enforcement organizations raises distinct and difficult issues. An effective defense requires knowledge of treaties and criminal law in two or more jurisdictions, and collaboration among defense counsel in different countries.

    May 30, 2007Benjamin Goldberger and Michael Kendall

  • Bit Parts

    Copyright Infringement/Motion to Intervene; Copyright Infringement/Striking Similarity; Right of Publicity/Attorney Fees.

    May 30, 2007Stan Soocher

  • Clause & Effect

    The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan decided that unresolved issues of fact as to whether a distributor or a record label abandoned a record-distribution agreement precluded summary judgment for either party on breach claims by the distributor.

    May 30, 2007ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Counsel Concerns

    The U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada granted summary judgment in part for Nevada-based entertainment attorney John Mason on his claim of breach of legal-services agreements by a film-production company.

    May 30, 2007ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |