The National Law Journal 1995 Harvey Berkman |
Title | Subject | Authors |
9th Circuit ends twinning of forfeiture, prosecution. (double jeopardy) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
A fractious court remains divided over religion. (U.S. Supreme Court) | Law | Marcia Coyle, Harvey Berkman |
A gunshot in Boston sends tremors nationwide: killings of gangs' prosecutor alarms officials who fear new outlaws obey no rules. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
An agency explains why it switched sides; after winning a reverse-bias award, the U.S. Justice Department argues against it. (United States v. Piscataway Township Board of Education) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
A new era for the ABA: bar group's first female president to take office faces a decline in membership. (American Bar Association) | Law | Karen Donovan, Harvey Berkman |
Back to the start for Senate tort bill. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Bill would allow suits on boycott compliance. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Cite war remains in limbo for now. (re West Publishing Co.'s copyright on legal citation system used across U.S.) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Clinton report makes case for affirmative action. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Commission suggests crack sentences be reduced. (U.S. Sentencing Commission) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Congress keeps tough crack penalty. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Congress returns to legal, regulatory reform. | Law | Marcia Coyle, Karen Donovan, Harvey Berkman, Claudia MacLachlan, Marianne Lavelle |
Costs mount for indigent defense. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Counsel on the Hill turns outside in. (Republican lawyers) | Law | Marcia Coyle, Harvey Berkman |
Court: sanctions for Abrams barred. (Elliott Abrams, pardoned for lying to Congress about Iran-Contra affair) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Did tort reform make general aviation take off? A limited products liability law, signed last year, is held up as a model in the debate. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Double jeopardy downs DUI cases: but appeals courts balk on license suspension issue. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
'Friends of Bill' shell out: lawyers contribute to Clinton legal fund for Paula Jones, Whitewater probes. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Guide to affirmative action is sent to agencies. (by U.S. Department of Justice) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
He balked at bills, so firm padded them: the firm admitted overbilling but still prevailed in a lawsuit brought by a too-savvy client. (Maryland law firm Weinberg & Green, client Malcolm C. Berman of Fairfax Savings Bank) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
His final deception ends with two shots; the lawyer slipped repeatedly past employers and bar committees until now. (suicide of Gary Nothstein) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
L.A. cops take case to high court. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Legal defense funds are pols' latest perk. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Many 'tentacles' to race-based federal policies; curbing affirmative-action programs will take more than a stroke of a pen. (includes related article) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Milken adviser is still fighting '80s battles: Chicago law Prof. Daniel Fischel sues corporations' legal tormentor. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Mother of mercy! They've killed off worst of RICO; the courts reined in civil RICO excesses, which may provide a lesson for today's legal reformers in Congress. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Mr. Hyde's other side: principles, not power. (Henry Hyde, chairman of House Judiciary Committee) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Mr. Smith goes to the CIA as general counsel. (Jeffrey H. Smith) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Much debated: the domestic intelligence guidelines; bombing stirs questions about the FBI's power to gather intelligence at home. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
New explorers hope for riches in India; U.S. lawyers see opportunity as the world's largest democracy modernizes. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Prisoner suits plentiful, but few do much time. (federal district court backlog) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Quiet partner to high-profile lawyer. (Ralph L. Lotkin is partner of Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., of O.J. Simpson case fame) (California) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Quotas irk Clinton's affirmative action point man. (Christopher F. Edley, Jr.) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Second Commerce Clause ruling calms the waters; the school gun zone case, observers say, may indeed have been an aberration. (ruling on Alaskan gold mine) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Showdown in Senate on tort reform. (planned filibuster of products liability bill) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
State groups seek historic gathering. (Council of State Governments, National Conference of State Legislatures and National Governors' Association seek Conference of the States) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Tabloid writer says employer used lawyers as shield; lawyers issue a policy order to tape all calls. Is the order privileged? (Lori Ronan sues Globe Communications Corp., publisher of National Examiner) (Florida) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
The borderless world of Martine Rothblatt. (a transsexual communications expert) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Those who bring up the rear are not necessarily slowpokes. (federal district court backlog) (Judges: What's Behind the Figures) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Tort reformers race against time to pass a bill. | Law | Harvey Berkman |
Toward term's end, court rules on Aguilar, taxes. (U.S. Supreme Court) | Law | Marcia Coyle, Harvey Berkman, Claudia MacLachlan |
Zealous civil lawyers now fear prosecution. (war on drugs) | Law | Harvey Berkman |
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