While the political world obsesses over whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales can survive the outcry over the politically motivated dismissal of eight United States Attorneys, the legal academy has been debating a different aspect of the fallout:
Could a case be made that the chief law-enforcement officer of the United States should be disbarred? Read More
You’d hardly think that a relatively small Jewish philanthropic organization could be worth all the fuss.
But for two American-Jewish dynasties who covet control of the World Jewish Congress, the Bronfmans and the Lauders, Monday, May 7, will go down as the day that saw one family’s ambitions collapse in a heap, while another’s Read More
The World Jewish Congress, the influential Jewish organization headed by billionaire Edgar Bronfman Sr., has been on the brink of self-destruction for several years. Since 2004, when allegations of financial mismanagement by one of the organization’s most venerable leaders sparked an investigation by the New York Attorney General, the organization has been plagued by internal Read More
Barack Obama continued his fund-raising sweep through New York by holding court early this morning in a gilded room at the Metropolitan Club, where hundreds of businessmen questioned the Senator about education, the Middle East, and healthcare, according to a source at the event.
Obama was apparently looking to make the most of his Read More
On May 19th, commodity trading billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II will host a fund-raiser for Barack Obama, according to a knowledgeable source. The event will be held at Jones' oceanfront Greenwich mansion, which reportedly sits on top of a 25-car garage.
More than 500 guests are expected to attend.
Interestingly, according Read More
KC Johnson, a Brooklyn College American History professor, is a veteran academic rabblerouser. So it was unsurprising when, last Spring, after allegation surfaced that three Duke University lacrosse players had raped and assaulted a local woman, he decided to weigh in on an open letter signed by 88 members of the Duke arts and sciences Read More
That small, obsessive crowd that settled down to watch the case pitting a young and promising associate against his former employer, the white-shoe law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, has not been disappointed.
These are not great moments in lawyering, the kind that puts The New York Times’ Linda Greenhouse on A1. This is “Lawyers Read More
Laurence Tribe, the celebrated liberal Constitutional scholar, was looking at a black plastic “Countdown Clock” that sits on a desk at his home in Cambridge, Mass. “Time until Bush goes,” reads the legend accompanying the digital read-out. The countdown stood at 692 days.
If the number seemed exhausting to the Harvard Law School professor, it Read More
Early on the morning of Feb. 13, 28-year-old former Sullivan & Cromwell associate Aaron Charney was not far from the white-shoe conference rooms at the firm’s offices on Broad Street, in the financial district.
But how far he had fallen!
He was consulting with labor lawyers from Alterman & Boop, the scrappy but respected Worth Read More
On Feb. 1, Houston’s Republican political elite will gather at the Houstonian, the city’s stateliest hotel, for a fund-raiser for former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the Yankee-loving, gay-friendly, Italian-American Presidential aspirant.
It’s an odd setting for him. The hotel’s lobby is decorated in the style of a Texan hunting lodge, with wooden beams, Read More
