Driving a few blocks to pick up one's children involves consumption of gasoline refined from foreign oil, and wear and tear on a vehicle manufactured in another state or country. Eating dinner in front of one's own television set entails consuming food and beverages from outside of one's home state, as well as decisions on how to spend hundreds of millions of advertising dollars. We do not believe that the Supreme Court required Congress to include a jurisdictional element under Lopez only to have courts interpret the resulting statutes in such a way as to remove it. All rights reserved. What works for the rest of the workforce doesn't for attorneys.
Firms have to get creative in order to woo lawyer parents.
A bottle of Florida orange juice, says the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, doesn't make a pipe-bombing of a Pennsylvania car a federal crime. A closely watched ABA commission is expected to recommend that attorneys be allowed to share fees with nonlawyers. The proposal would allow law partnerships to add accountants, consultants, and other professionals. In an unusual move, a Florida county court judge has declared a mistrial after the jury acquitted the defendant. Enraged, defense counsel Fred Haddad calls her names but Judge Peggy Gehl holds firm against his bombast.