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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines October 6, 2008

By David Badertscher, PLL

<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>NLJ.com, </em>October 6, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">Subscription needed for online access: </font><a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp" target="_blank"><font size="2">http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp</font></a></p> <p><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQDDCDQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVS" target="_blank"><font size="2">Court looks at scope of a Title VII shield</font></a><br/><font size="2"><font color="#333333">"Employees who claim job discrimination have won strong protection from retaliation by employers in recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Will their winning streak continue in a key challenge involving companies' internal investigations of job bias complaints? In <i>Crawford v. Metro. Gov't of Nashville</i>, the justices will decide whether the anti-retaliation provision in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects an employee from dismissal because she cooperated with her employer's internal investigation of sexual harassment complaints by other employees."</font><br/><br/><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQDDCDQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVT" target="_blank">Crisis takes big toll on bankruptcy financing</a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"The credit market crunch triggered by the upheavals on Wall Street could radically change the face of corporate bankruptcy, attorneys across the nation say. Companies coming out of bankruptcy will face challenges retaining top executives and middle managers to keep firms running during restructuring or mergers, predicted June Anne Burke, a global compensation plans attorney at Baker & McKenzie's New York office." </font><br/><br/><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQDDCDQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVU" target="_blank">Firms face tough collections</a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"As law firms enter the fourth-quarter home stretch for 2008, the harsh reality is that any hours law firms billed this year are only as good as the client's ability to pay for them. With clients expected to hold on to as much cash as possible amid a credit squeeze, law firms may be walking a tightrope during this year's collection push to get the dollars rightly owed to them while at the same time remaining flexible with clients in trouble. 'It's a balance that always exists, but in this market it becomes heightened,' said Paul Irving, co-chairman of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips."</font></font></p> <p><font color="#333333"><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQDDCDQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVA" target="_blank"><font size="2">WASHINGTON | High court's busy new term just got busier</font></a><br/><font size="2"><font color="#333333">"From speedy trial rights to plea agreements breached by prosecutors to counsel for indigent defendants, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its first orders list of the new term, upped the stakes by adding seven new cases to an already busy criminal docket. The seven cases granted review were among 10 culled from the court's summer list of more than 2,000 petitions. In addition to the criminal cases, the justices also granted review in a Superfund cleanup challenge the fifth environmental case on the argument docket in a now potentially huge term for environmental law.</font> "</font></font><br/></p> <p><font size="2"> </font> </p>

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