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Forward Movement
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This general interest blawg is a collection of young professionals and their efforts to move their careers forward ... they may be developing a side interest apart from their practice area, writing to enhance their name recognition, or searching for new employment. All authors are Attorneys or MBAs, and are within several years of having graduated.
Recent Posts
BofA clean-up: Mayopoulos didn\'t do any deeds as regards Merrill bonuses
This is so last week, but my ocd regarding the BofA matter compels me to keep the subject up-to-date here.Last week various BofA officals testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. While there was discussion of Mayopoulo...
Thanksuing/Thanksgiving: A time to Appreciate, Reflect Upon and Ask Tough Questions About Our Adversarial System, by Vlad Frants
At trial, a prosecutor gets away with asking a witness, “the defendant choked you, didn’t he?,” whereas the witness merely stated during her preliminary hearing testimony that she was “lightly choked.”While preparing his witness to take the...
EVERYTHING Bank of America produced to Cuomo and Congress goes to plaintiffs in the S.D.N.Y.
Bad week for BofA. For several reasons, but in the case of this post: S.D.N.Y. Judge Denny Chin ruled earlier this week that plaintiffs proceeding before him against BofA are entitled to whatever documents BofA has produced to date.To be clear, this ...
How Attorneys Can Represent Their Guilty As Charged Clients In Good Conscience by Keyana Jones
As an aspiring criminal defense attorney, the moral dilemmas that I will inevitably face trouble me. Especially in the arena of litigation, it seems to me all attorneys experience some degree of moral conflict at one point or another regardless of wh...
Goldman Sachs\' and Blankfein\'s $500 Million Apology
Numbers people should stick to numbers, and leave the talking to attorneys ...I wrote last week regarding Goldman Sachs' CEO Blankfein's comments that were understood to mean: our workers are more productive than other workers, which is why they're c...
Bank of America\'s CEO Search Does Not Look Like Fun …
So we now know GMAC's Molina is out of consideration, and evidently so is Prudential's Demchak. It is rumored Demchak pulled himself out of contention due to government restraints on BofA: both in terms of his own compensation, and it is alluded, as ...

