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Entertainment Law
Friday, April 25, 2008
By Michael I. Rudell and Neil J. Rosini

"Michael I. Rudell and Neil J. Rosini, partners in Franklin Weinrib Rudell & Vassallo, write that controversies over fabricated memoirs and memoirists have been blooming like spring flowers. And the readers of these supposedly authentic stories are, increasingly, launching legal actions when what was promoted as truth turns out to be fiction. "

Environmental Law
Friday, April 25, 2008
By Stephen L. Kass and Jean M. McCarroll

"Stephen L. Kass and Jean M. McCarroll, partners at Carter Ledyard & Milburn, argue in favor of congestion pricing, writing that future plans to implement it in New York City will need to respond more persuasively to both procedural and substantive objections to the recently defeated Bloomberg proposal, and suggesting a few amendments for the next proposal."

OUTSIDE COUNSEL:

 Employer Practices Alone May Create ERISA Benefit Plans
Friday, April 25, 2008
By Geoffrey A. Mort

" Geoffrey A. Mort, of counsel at Kraus & Zuchlewski, writes that the slow but ongoing evolution of ERISA case law in the direction of increased receptiveness to construing the existence of unwritten plans from a broader range of circumstances is consistent with the intent of Congress in passing the statute."

THE BACK PAGE:

Free: Philanthropist Has Never Forgotten His Roots
Friday, April 25, 2008
By Thomas Adcock

" Last week, Joseph H. Flom, once a cash-strapped night student at City College who sometimes slept in class, exhausted after working all day, now one of New York's premier philanthropists and the sole surviving name partner of his global law firm, announced a grant of $9.6 million over the next decade to create the Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Honors Program in Legal Studies at City College of New York, intended to help poor, working-class undergraduates on the path to legal careers. "