- Judging the lawyers: peers pick the best of the
bar.
CLOSE to 48,000 lawyers practice in Los Angeles County. That's about 30 percent of California's entire legal workforce and an amount equal to the population of Beverly Hills and Malibu combined. But in that legal army, how can you determine which individuals are the standouts, the ones regarded as ......
- The Patterns and Implications of Political Contributions by Elite Law School Faculty
IMAGE TABLE 1 IMAGE TABLE 2 INTRODUCTION Through their submissions to the public and to the courts, law professors have attempted to shape many of the nation's most important recent legal decisions-the impeachment of President Clinton, judicial review of the 2000 presidential election, affirmative action, terrorism policy, and homosexual rights....
- Preface
Law and the Political Process: When the Federalist Society sponsored its Nineteenth Annual Symposium at Harvard Law School on March 3 and 4, 2000, no one in attendance could have imagined how timely this topic would turn out to be! Although appropriate for any election year, this fall, from November ......
- Bronco Drilling Company, Inc. Names New Officers.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Bronco Drilling Company, Inc., (Nasdaq/GM:BRNC), is pleased to announce the election and appointment of the following officers of the Company. Mark Dubberstein has been named President of the Company. Mr. Dubberstein became the Company's General Counsel on January 1, 2006 following twenty-five years in private practice, most ......
- Grassroots and PACs: A Winning Combination on Election
Day.
Experts agree: The candidates with superior grassroots and political action committee support will most likely prove victorious on election night, November 7th. (Ed. Note: Here's your opportunity to see if this forecast is correct, as November Buildings crosses your desk following Election Day.) Washington, D.C. -- contrary to popular belief, ......
- Marilyn Hurt
HEADNOTE "There is a sense of pride in this department an attitude of 'we can get it done.'" What's on Hurt's Plate? SCHOOLS: 16 STUDENTS: 8,000 STUDENT MEALS:10,000-13,000 daily CONTRACTED MEALS: 4,500 daily EMPLOYEES: 90 IT WAS DURING THE TENSE, threatening, political storms of 1994 in Washington, D.C. that Marilyn ......
- ABA model rule 7.6: The ABA pleases the SEC, but does not solve pay to play
INTRODUCTION In the mid-1980s, Robert H. Baker, a municipal bond lawyer and partner at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, received an invitation to attend a fundraiser in New York City for Jessee M. Unruh, the California State Treasurer. At the event, Mr. Baker ran into almost everyone he knew in ......