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Selections from the National Law Journal Daily Headlines May 6, 2009

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, May 6, 2009.

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GCs, managing partners get together on diversity

"Some of the most powerful attorneys in the profession will gather on May 6 to discuss a matter that has long plagued their profession: the lack of diversity the attorney ranks. The mission is to advance the Call to Action ? the landmark 2004 document calling for greater commitment to diversity within corporate legal departments. "We want to change the trajectory of the diversity discussion by getting the decision makers into a figurative room," said Call to Action author Rick Palmore."

 

Massachusetts high court authorizes limited assistance representation

"The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts recently authorized so-called limited assistance representation or unbundled legal representation, which enables litigants to hire lawyers for part of their casework and perform some legal work on their own, across all of the state's trial courts. The court system is touting the program as a low-cost alternative to pro se representation for financially strapped litigants and an effort to reduce the high percentage of pro se caseloads in some courts."

 

In a first, 1st Circuit upholds remand to state court under home state exception to CAFA

"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit recently ruled on an issue of first impression for the circuit by remanding a Class Action Fairness Act case back to state court under CAFA's home state exception to federal jurisdiction."

 

OPINION:

Too Big to Infringe?

"A class action settlement is now pending in the Southern District of New York would authorize Google to scan copyrighted books and maintain an electronic database of books. Google will be able to sell access to individual books and subscriptions to the database, place advertisements on any page dedicated to a book, and make other commercial uses of books. Google will pay the copyright owner 63% of revenue. The settlement should be rejected."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on May 06, 2009 (boomark / email).