Ray Nagin asks for $77 billion (only $1 billion for infrastructure) in claim; traffic jam outside of courthouse as lawyers rush to file Katrina claims against Army Corps of Engineers. [New Orleans Times-Picayune; USA Today; CNN/AP]

Illinois trial lawyers try to expand already broad joint and several liability in that state. [Illinois Justice Blog]

Florida legislator Frederica Wilson wishes to ban term “illegal alien”: “I personally find the word ‘alien’ offensive when applied to individuals, especially to children. An alien to me is someone from out of space.” (She’s okay with “illegal,” however.) [News-Press; Overcriminalized blog]
Defense-attorney time-stamp shenanigans. [Above the Law]
The Deamonte Driver case: lawyer blames the government for parental neglect [Frum]

Are law firms breaking the law when they bend to client demands for lawyers of a particular color? Curt Levey’s paper “Legal Implications of Complying with Race and Gender-Based Client Preferences” to be discussed at AEI March 13. [AEI; see also Financial Times; Overlawyered Jan. 9 and Dec. 27]

3 Comments

Ted, will CLE be available for the AEI paper presentation on law firm diversity? Because I’m pretty sure the characters on the other side of the issue are offering it.
- March 05, 2007 12:27 PM
- By David Wilson
If demanding minority lawyers is legal, then a business should be able to demand a firm supply white-only lawyers. Although both demands are morally equivilent, supporters of this practice will undoubtably say they are trying to cure some unseen “racism”.
- March 05, 2007 2:30 PM
- By Jkoerner
David, there aren’t lawyers organizing this particular session, so I doubt that they’ve taken steps to offer CLE credit–which is unfortunate, since that’s often a critical part of getting attorneys to show up.
- March 05, 2007 3:32 PM
- By Ted