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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - Posts

  • More on War Crimes


    Jack, I gather from the end of your post on whether Bush administration officials will be charged with war crimes that if it were up to you, you would want some members of the administration to be so charged. So, which officials would you want charged, Read More...
  • Family-Friendly Firms? What About Family-Friendly Faculties?


    Watching the debate on family-friendly firms, I can't help but think that the conversation's focus is a bit too narrow. A midlevel associate at a large law firm who moonlights as a father and husband, I'm familiar with the difficulty of maintaining "work-life Read More...
  • Say It Ain't So, Colin


    ABC News reports that Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, and John Ashcroft were part of a Principals Committee that discussed in great detail and specifically approved harsh interrogation techniques for detainees held by the CIA. Highly placed sources said Read More...
  • War Crimes Prosecutions in the U.S.? Dream On


    Marc Ambinder says it's "one of those hidden secrets in Washington that a Democratic Justice Department is going to be very interested in figuring out whether there's a case to be made that senior Bush Administration officials were guilty of war crimes." Read More...
  • Family Friendly Legal Practice: Why Not.


    Phil—to echo Orin’s skepticism about part-time at law firms, I wonder whether flexibility isn’t actually part of the same phenomenon that also accounts for heavier and heavier workloads. While it’s true that firms are becoming more flexible in terms of Read More...
  • Blueprint Originalism


    Jack tries to reconcile his commitments to originalism and to living constitutionalism by arguing that originalism supplies general principles that later constitutional interpreters (judges and others) must obey even while they update constitutional rules Read More...
  • Reply to Bob Litt


    Thanks to Bob Litt for correcting the error in my earlier post . I don't agree with him, however, that you can't deter corporations by threatening to punish them. True, they are artificial entities, but they are controlled by managers, who can spend more Read More...
  • Corporate Culpability?


    Bob Litt , a former federal prosecutor and Justice Department official who now practices with Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington, sent me this note in response to Eric's post today on corporate prosecutions: While trying to clear up confusion engendered Read More...
  • "Part Time" as Legal Fiction


    Orin, you're quite right to call me out on the "part time" fiction at big law firms. Quite simply, it ain't true. This is clearly a function of the profit motives you cite, and the all-consuming quest to maximize billable hours among lawyers. However, Read More...
  • A Justice Shift?


    A front-page article in the New York Times today discusses what it calls a "shift" in Justice Department policy: "corporate deals" are replacing "trials," as the headline puts it. The tenor of the article is that corporations are getting away with murder, Read More...
  • Is Part Time the New Full Time?


    As Phil notes below , "it's become standard practice" at many large law firms "to offer reduced-work schedules and pay for parents (both mothers and fathers) who want to spend more time at home with their young children. And while such arrangements can Read More...
  • The Joke That Is Home Rule: A New York Story


    An unintentionally amusing editorial in the New York Times today reveals just how little home rule major American cities have. The Big Apple is one of the great cities in the world. So isn’t it a bit odd that it can’t do much of anything about a problem Read More...
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