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Free With Registration: Ethics and Criminal Practice
Monday, June 1, 2009
By Joel Cohen and Danielle Alfonzo Walsman

"Joel Cohen, a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School, and Danielle Alfonzo Walsman, an associate at Stroock, write that although Judiciary Law §487 was dusted off in People v. Bergrin, it is hardly likely that every prosecutor across the region will open a 'Major Lies Bureau' and prosecute each lawyer who appears to make false representations to a judge or party. Nor are judges likely to install polygraph sensors at each podium and counsel's table any time soon. However, the Bergrin case should underscore for every lawyer the seriousness of the issue and that there, in fact, exists no wiggle room on the matter."

Employment Law
Monday, June 1, 2009
By Jeffrey S. Klein and Nicholas J. Pappas

"Jeffrey S. Klein and Nicholas J. Pappas, partners at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, write that in any litigation following adverse actions against employees, the lawyers' advice frequently becomes the subject of discovery requests, and the parties to the litigation far too frequently turn to the courts to ascertain whether or not documents generated by or for the lawyer are privileged or must be disclosed"

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Using Literature to Impeach Expert Witnesses
Monday, June 1, 2009
By Anthony M. Sola and Ellen B. Fishman

"Anthony M. Sola and Ellen B. Fishman, partners at Martin Clearwater & Bell, write that the experienced trial attorney will enjoy the challenge of cross-examining expert witnesses and testing their credibility. One skill to be mastered on cross-examination of this kind, they stress, entails confronting scientific experts with passages from learned treatises, articles, or other relevant literature that is at variance with their opinion testimony."

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Free: Summer 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
 "In this free special section from the New York Law Journal, 'Tips for a Successful Summer,' 'Shrinking Summers,' a chart of New York summer associate class sizes, 'The Cocktail's Return,' 'Culinary Paris' and more - from the challenge of retaining associates of color as they move up the ladder to partnership, to the surprising intricacies of fried chicken."

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Keeping Yourself Up as the Economy Goes Down
"High achievers often take every setback as a direct reflection on them; when things don't go well, they may feel ashamed, as if they've failed somehow. But the economy is so bad that you shouldn't take it personally if you hit a road block in your career; the recession is outside your control. What's in your control is how you respond to it."