CHICAGO ? Several thousand Illinois residents won?t be able to hop in their cars and leave if they have one too many drinks at a Fourth of July party, thanks to a new law that already may be saving lives here and in other states.
NEW ORLEANS - Law enforcement officers will be out in full force this weekend looking for drunk drivers, both on Louisiana roadways, and Louisiana?s waterways.
Louisiana?s ?Click it or Ticket? slogan is no longer just for drivers and front seat passengers. With the legislative session now over, a number of bills are in the process of being implemented, such as the state?s new seat belt law, which Gov. Bobby Jindal recently signed in to play.
The state Department of Social Services has the authority to unilaterally revoke licenses of child-care centers under a new law that went into effect Tuesday.
Governor Bobby Jindal has signed a bill into law that essentially re-designs high school curriculum for students focused on careers. Some say this re-design allows students to keep under-performing.
Holding his first hearing Thursday on Proposition 8, the controversial state ballot measure that outlawed same-sex marriage in California, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker repeatedly stressed the importance of establishing a record that will stand the test of time. Telling a packed courtroom that the challenge launched by high-profile litigators Theodore Olson and David Boies is presumably a "prelude" for things to come, Walker said: "How we do things here is more important than what we do."
The Department of Justice, under pressure to mete out blame for the credit crisis, has wrapped up a deferred prosecution agreement with Beazer Homes USA. The Atlanta-based company has been under scrutiny for reportedly issuing questionable mortgages to local homeowners. As part of the agreement, the company agreed to pay $53 million in restitution and penalties and said it "accepts and acknowledges" that it was responsible for criminal actions taken by employees at its now-defunct mortgage arm.
Lawyers who work in the White House don't talk much, but they can't avoid having their salaries reported. The Obama administration, complying with an annual congressional requirement, has released salary figures for all White House lawyers, including more than 40 in the Counsel's Office. White House Counsel Gregory Craig tops the list, at $172,200. By comparison, the former partner at Williams & Connolly made $1.7 million last year, according to a disclosure report released in April.
Lawyers incur tremendous administrative costs in servicing clients who are resistant if not hostile to the idea of these costs being billed back to them. Mattern & Associates CEO and founder Robert Mattern brings to light trends in law firm cost recovery in an increasingly digital world.
In between the rush and flow of working as general counsel of global computer company Lenovo, Mike O'Neill realized that there are some basic principles that guide his work. He calls these tenets -- some of them he's learned along the way, and some he is still learning every day. He shares those at the top of his list, including the single most important rule for a successful in-house role: We don't get paid for what we do -- we get paid for what we get done.
