Articles Written by:    ASHBY JONES     

Skilling, Petrocelli Make Two More Pleas to the Fifth Circuit

WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law. You’ve got to give former Enron chief Jeff Skilling credit for dogged persistence. Skilling and his legal team — led by O’Melveny & Myers’s Dan Petrocelli — suffered a big setback earlier this ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  20 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Enron Corporation,  Jeffrey Skilling,  Wall Street Journal,  Dow Jones,  Digg

Lott’s Name Surfaces in Connection with New Scruggs Suit

WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law. It was about this time last year when things started heating up with L’Affaire Scruggs down in Mississippi. And by March, the die had been cast: famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  14 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Trent Lott,  William Roberts (politician),  U.S. Senate,  Wall Street Journal

Preclearance, Clarence? Scotus to Review Big Part of Voting Rights Act

WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law. President Lyndon B Johnson discusses the Voting Rights Act with civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr. The act, part of President Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ program trebled the number of ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  9 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Lyndon B. Johnson,  U.S. Congress,  Martin Luther King, Jr.,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Al Gore

No Charge: A Closer Look at Civil-Contempt Confinement

Remember Martin Armstrong (pictured)? He’s the New York financier who spent over six years behind bars on civil contempt charges for failure to produce documents and about $15 million in gold and antiquities. Then there’s Beatty Chadwick, a former ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  8 Jan 2009

Vicki Iseman: Is She a Public or Private Figure?

Vicki Iseman, in a 2004 photo at an awards dinner in Washington. Photo: AP Tuesday’s news that Beltway lobbyist Vicki Iseman had filed a defamation suit against the New York Times over its February article about her and John McCain caused quite a stir ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  31 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Vicki Iseman,  John McCain,  Richard Jewell

Atheist Michael Newdow: ‘Remove ‘God’ From Inaugural Oath’

Mike Newdow speaks to the media after arguing his case before the Supreme Court March 24, 2004 in Washington, DC. Photo: Getty Images Devotees of the Establishment Clause — the snippet of the First Amendment that reads: “Congress shall make no law ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  31 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Eugene Volokh

Lobbyist Hits NYT With Defamation Suit over McCain Article

Vicki Iseman, in a 2004 photo at an awards dinner in Washington. Photo: AP Remember Vicki Iseman? For those who don’t, she’s the Beltway lobbyist who showed up in this February New York Times article about Presidential candidate John McCain. The ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  30 Dec 2008
Related Topics: John McCain,  Vicki Iseman,  U.S. Senate,  Al Gore

Former Holland & Knight Partner Accused of the Perfect Crime

WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law. Several years back, we blogged about a WSJ profile of Matthew Farmer, a former Chicago partner at Holland & Knight who blew the whistle when he believed a fellow partner had inflated bills to a ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  22 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  Dow Jones

New Terms for Bernie: A Curfew, A Bracelet and Home Confinement

On Monday, we asked the following question: why was Marc Dreier not released on bail, when Bernie Madoff was. The answer, it seemed, is that Dreier, who had spent some time over the last few years forging documents and impersonating others, represented ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  17 Dec 2008
Related Topics: NYSE

Judge to Dewey & LeBoeuf: What’s Up With the $600 Associates?

An intriguing little spat has broken out between two law firms in the SEC’s lawsuit against WexTrust Capital, with Boston’s Sullivan & Worcester throwing stones at Dewey & LeBoeuf for allegedly running up some pretty high fees while serving as a ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  16 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Dow Jones,  Denny Chin

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