Even in an era of $160,000 salaries for first-year associates - plus bonuses - not every young lawyer is feeling equally flush. Law school debt can take a big bite of the fattest law firm paychecks, while the slowing economy has produced a steady trickle of law firm layoffs. Many associates are feeling squeezed - and a lot of them are minority lawyers.
The Associated Press
November 20, 2008
For the first time, defense lawyers were allowed to see a section of the Guantanamo prison that is so restricted, even its location on the U.S. base is secret. Two military lawyers for Ramzi Binalshibh, an alleged plotter of the Sept. 11 attacks, were granted 90 minutes to view Camp 7, a section for "high value" detainees that opened two years ago. The lawyers, who are determining if their client is competent to stand trial, said they were barred from revealing what they saw on the tour.
New York Law Journal
November 20, 2008
A Syrian arms dealer argued Wednesday that he was merely helping Spanish intelligence when he explored a deal to sell weapons to Colombian terrorists for use against the United States. But the prosecutor in the case called the defense a "cat-and-mouse claim." New York federal prosecutors are trying to prove that Monzer al-Kassar and Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy agreed to sell millions of dollars in weapons to undercover informants posing as rebels with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia.
The National Law Journal
November 20, 2008
The First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a New Hampshire state law barring marketers from using information about doctors' prescription habits. The Nov. 18 ruling, which followed a de novo review of the issues by a three-judge panel, rejected the argument that the law violated the First Amendment by illegally restricting commercial speech.
