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National Law Journal: Selections from Legal Times Afternoon Update February 23, 2010

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, February, 23, 2010.

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Lawmaker Says Plaintiffs' Lawyers Are Tainting Toyota Inquiry

"A Republican lawmaker accused an auto-safety advocate today of having inappropriate ties to plaintiffs' lawyers and allowing the lawyers to influence his research about acceleration problems with several Toyota models."

 

Venable Sees Flat Revenue

"Venable's numbers were basically flat in 2009, something managing partner Karl Racine said was due to watching expenses in a bad year. Gross revenue ticked up a fraction of a percent, from $349 million in 2008 to $350 million last year. Revenue per lawyer rose less than 1 percent, to $675,000, and profits per equity partner were up roughly 2 percent, to $785,000."

 

Roberts "Startled" By Government Errors in Vet Cases

"When he was in private practice at Hogan & Hartson, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. did not handle veterans' benefits claims. So, he understandably found "startling" information with which lawyers for veterans are only too familiar: In litigating with veterans, the government more often than not takes a position that is substantially unjustified. "

 

BuckleySandler Lands White Collar Specialist from Ropes & Gray

"After 15 years at Ropes & Gray, Samuel Buffone has left Ropes & Gray's white collar defense practice and joined BuckleySandler. Prior to Ropes, Buffone had run his own firm, Buffone & Tigar, with Duke Law School professor Michael Tigar"

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Judge Upholds Suit Over Bullet Proof Vests

"A Japanese manufacturer continues to face allegations that it knowingly helped produce thousands of defective bullet proof vests, after a federal judge refused to dismiss a False Claims Act suit against the company by the Justice Department."

 

Tennessee Couple Slams Toyota's Arbitration Process

"Rhonda and Eddie Smith of Sevierville, Tenn., poured out their anger today at Toyota, emotionally recalling an incident in 2006 in which their Lexus unexpectedly accelerated to more than 100 miles per hour. But the couple didn't limit their rage to the automaker or to government regulators."

 

Appeals Court Sides with DOJ in Suit Against Protected Federal Witness

"A federal appeals court in Washington today ruled in favor of the Justice Department in a suit that seeks to force the government to reveal the identity and location of a convicted assassin who has not begun payment on a $7.3 million default judgment tied to the torture and murder of a Chilean diplomat."

 

Chicago May Face Uphill Fight in Supreme Court

"The Supreme Court on Monday seemed supportive of arguments by Chicago minority firefighters that a new 300-day period for filing discrimination charges opened each time the city used scores from a discriminatory examination to hire someone."

 

At Toyota Hearing, Engineering Study Is in Focus

"Toyota is counting on a study from an outside consultant to measure its potential liability in upcoming lawsuits. But at the start of congressional hearings today, lawmakers continued to attack the study and the automaker's response to acceleration problems."

 

Virginia Thomas Launching 'Liberty Central' Site

"When we last reported on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife Virginia in April 2009, she had left her job at the conservative Heritage Foundation to direct Washington operations for Hillsdale College, a Michigan college that was opening a D.C. center for constitutional studies. At the time she told the Washington Times that the new job was "the safest place to be when it comes to conflicts" with her husband's job."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on February 24, 2010 (boomark / email).