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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines November 25, 2008

By David Badertscher, PLL

<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>NLJ.Com, </em>November 25, 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?HtuYQSRBCAQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVU" target="_blank"><font size="2">WEB-ONLY | Christensen slapped with three-year prison term in wiretap case </font></a><br/><font size="2"><font color="#333333">"A federal judge has sentenced Terry Christensen to three years in federal prison, concluding that the attorney's decision to wiretap his opponent in a child support case marred the legal profession. 'Mr. Christensen swore to uphold the law,' said U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer at Christensen's sentencing hearing on Monday. 'Yet he showed disrespect for the system of the law on a grand scale.' " </font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- November 25, 2008 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRBCAQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVW" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY | Spillane Shaeffer to merge with Lathrop & Gage on Jan. 1 </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow, a Los Angeles litigation shop, has announced plans to merge with Lathrop & Gage on Jan. 1, 2009. The merger gives Lathrop & Gage, a Kansas City, Mo.-based law firm, an office in California. Joining Lathrop & Gage will be John Shaeffer, David Aronoff and Lincoln Bandlow, as well as four associates and nine staff members." </font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- November 25, 2008 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRBCAQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVY" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY | System used by federal judiciary to rate workloads and make case for judgeships criticized </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"The yardstick used by the federal judiciary to rate workloads and establish the need for additional judgeships has been critiqued in a report by the Government Accountability Office for using estimates rather than collecting actual data on time spent on cases. A heated debate is expected in Congress next year over a renewed effort to create as many as 55 judgeships nationwide." </font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- November 25, 2008 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRBCAQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVA" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY | Former House speaker Newt Gingrich will teach at Univ. of Georgia School of Law </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"Former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich will teach a course at the University of Georgia School of Law this spring. Gingrich will teach a course on judicial review as a Carl E. Sanders Political Leadership Scholar".</font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- November 25, 2008 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRBCAQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVB" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY | Massachusetts high court rules that online law grad can take the bar </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that an online law school graduate could take the Massachusetts bar examination even though the school is not American Bar Association-accredited because the ABA is in the midst of a sweeping review of law school accreditation standards." </font></font></p>

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on December 01, 2008 (boomark / email).