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Selections From National Law Journal Daily Headlines March 5, 2010

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, March 5, 2010.

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Big corporations set aside $30 million to hire minority- and women-owned law firms

"Eleven of the country's major corporations announced Thursday that they will collectively spend $30 million to hire minority- and women-owned law firms as outside counsel."

 

Fight breaks out over relevance of documents in Toyota probe

"A public squabble has broken out between the chairman and the ranking Republican member of the Congressional panel investigating safety problems in Toyota vehicles over the contents of internal documents produced by a former Toyota attorney."

 

Dominant maker of sunlight-sensitive lenses settles with FTC

"The Federal Trade Commission this week announced a settlement with the nation's leading manufacturer of treatments to darken corrective lenses, Transitions Optical Inc., to stop using anti-competitive tactics to undermine competitors."

 

Obama picks K&L Gates partner as U.S. Attorney in Spokane

"President Obama has nominated K&L Gates partner Michael Ormsby for the top prosecution job in eastern Washington. Ormsby said he knows he has a lot to learn if the U.S. Senate confirms him ? he's never been a prosecutor. A partner at K&L Gates since 1988 whose practice focuses on municipal finance, Ormsby has spent his entire legal career in the private sector."

 

THE PRACTICE

When unions request grievance hearing info

"Employers generally must provide unions with witness names, but not with witness statements."

 

OPINION

Getting gun history right

"In McDonald v. Chicago, the U.S. Supreme Court must choose between well-documented history and a gun-rights fantasy masquerading as history."

 

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