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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines December 23, 2009

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, December 23, 2009.

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Simpson Thacher and Mayer Brown hot for Brazil

"Brazil is a hot prospect for law firms. In the past week, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Mayer Brown have joined a growing list of firms expanding in the South American country in recent years."

 

UC Hastings College of Law names new dean

"Frank H. Wu will take over the top spot at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in July. Wu, 42, is currently a professor at Howard University School of Law, and was the dean at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit from 2004 to 2008."

 

Special master orders sanctions against Goodwin Procter

"A special master has ordered sanctions against Applied Materials Inc. and attorneys at Boston-based Goodwin Procter for stalling in releasing an email by the company's chief executive"

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Federal prosecutors defend ruse to snag sheriff

"A ruse set up through bogus subpoena documents to snag a former Orange County, Calif. sheriff for criminal wrongdoing was a 'legitimate investigative technique' according to the government's brief filed before a federal appeals court".

 

Illinois settles for $77 million over college savings plan

"Illinois has become the first state to reach a final agreement with OppenheimerFunds Inc. over losses that consumers suffered when the company invested college savings funds in what states called overly risky financial securities. "

 

Michigan faces constitutional case over cash-strapped public defenders

"Are Michigan's public defenders improperly pushing the poor into copping pleas? The Michigan Supreme Court will consider that question this spring when it hears a case challenging how publicly appointed lawyers represent poor criminal defendants."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on December 23, 2009 (boomark / email).