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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines January 21, 2010.

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, January 21, 2010.

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Scott Brown's chief legal counsel talks about the winning campaign

"Duane Morris' Daniel B. Winslow, who led the legal team for Republican victor Scott Brown in the Massachusetts campaign for a U.S. Senate seat, spoke with the NLJ about his relationship with Brown and how Brown won. Winslow also discussed the legal issues that cropped up during the campaign, including a challenge to a Massachusetts Democratic Party attack brochure and a patent filing for an advertising method involving aerosol food coloring on snow."

 

Bookkeeper sentenced for embezzling from law firm

"The Virginia Beach, Va., law firm with high-profile criminal case clients Michael Vick and Allen Iverson was on the receiving end of criminal behavior when its bookkeeper embezzled more than $153,000 during the course of three years through unauthorized checks and wire transfers."

 

General Dynamics' longtime GC talks about his return to private practice

"David Savner left his post as general counsel at General Dynamics Corp. at the end of last year to rejoin the Jenner & Block. In an interview with the NLJ, he talked about the changed law firm environment to which he's returned. "

 

Court rejects claim that firm practiced 'judicially sanctioned extortion'

"A California appeals court has ruled that Waters & Kraus, one of the nation's leading asbestos litigation firms, did not engage in "judicially sanctioned extortion," as a Los Angeles trial judge contended last year. "

 

Unhappy judge orders ex-Detroit mayor to pay $1 million sooner

"A Michigan state judge on Wednesday lambasted former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, calling him a liar whose conduct was "reprehensible" for hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars when he owes the city $1 million in restitution."

 

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Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).