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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton associate Shawn Foust once dreamed of creating his own video games, then he went to law school. But Foust is returning to his first love by heading up the firm's new video game industry group. Old gamers don't die; they change their game plan.
Questions continue to emerge regarding aspects of electronically stored information, especially the discoverability of metadata. Despite amendments to the FRCP, the Sedona Guidelines and court decisions, many practitioners still wonder how to best advise clients about metadata.
Many jurors expect a case to be presented in the visually stimulating, computer-generated manner they receive information daily. Accordingly, in civil litigation, computer-powered presentations are on the rise at mediations, binding arbitrations, and federal and state court trials.
Four years after the Berlin Wall came down, Peter Valert graduated from Whittier Law School in Orange County and turned his attention toward his native home: the newly dubbed Czech Republic. He moved east and joined Cameron McKenna's Prague office in 1995, then helped establish the firm's office in Bulgaria. Since moving to DLA Piper in 2006, Valert has come full circle: He joined the firm as a partner in Sofia, and this May was also appointed the managing partner of the firm's Prague office.
Just before Sen. Hillary Clinton spoke to the Democratic convention Tuesday night, a self-described "grandmother from Alabama" addressed the delegates with considerably less fanfare. The speaker was Lilly Ledbetter, who lost a 2007 Supreme Court 5-4 decision that has become one of the most criticized rulings of the Roberts Court.
A federal judge on Tuesday criticized government lawyers for their "weak" argument in urging the court to stay an order that compels two former White House aides to appear under subpoena before the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating the U.S. Attorney firings. The committee chairman, responding to the ruling, says the committee plans to "promptly" hold a hearing in which Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolten will be asked to answer questions under oath.
Although he hasn't practiced law in more than 30 years, newly minted vice presidential nominee Joe Biden remains a favorite son in the legal community, having longstanding relationships with law firms that donated to his congressional races and his two bids for the White House. Many of those firms have handled asbestos and bankruptcy cases, issues that Biden has weighed in on from his seat on the judicial committee.
A business owner convicted of defrauding customers seeking male sexual enhancement products and other supplements has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Federal prosecutors accused the company of bilking customers out of more than $400 million with deceptive ads, manipulated credit card transactions and refusal to accept returns or cancel orders. A federal judge said part of the fraud relied on the reluctance of customers to come forward, which would mean admitting to buying the sexual enhancement pills.
A bank can be held liable under the Consumer Fraud Act if an employee fails to act on a promise to invest a client's money in a mutual fund, a New Jersey appeals court held Wednesday. The court rejected an argument by Wachovia Bank that it was not liable because the statute does not apply to securities. But the problem for Wachovia was that its employee failed to invest the money at all, not that he invested it badly or misled the plaintiff into investing in a bogus company, said Judge Donald Collester Jr.
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