(1) Insurers Sued for $1 Billion for Allegedly Enabling ‘Dumping’ of Food Products From China
Marcia Coyle, The National Law Journal

What do fresh garlic, crawfish meat, canned mushrooms and honey have in common? A $1 billion lawsuit by their domestic producers against major insurance companies for enabling the “dumping” of competing food products from China. CLICK HERE for more.
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(2) the problems of celebrated world class gangster Bernie Madoff keep rolling in.

Madoff-Affiliated Firms Sued by Private Investment Fund
Billy Shields, Daily Business Review

A family-run, Panama-based company with an office in Coral Gables, Fla., has sued a former bank subsidiary of American Express and a so-called feeder fund to Bernard Madoff’s investment group. The suit alleges the bank, the fund and others caused $10.6 million in losses by ignoring the warning signs of a Ponzi scheme. For more about the crook, CLICK HERE.
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(3) No scarves, please. We’re cops.

3rd Circuit Rejects Muslim Cop’s Bid to Wear Religious Scarf
Shannon P. Duffy, The Legal Intelligencer

A Muslim woman who works as a Philadelphia police officer has lost her court battle to wear a religious head scarf on the job now that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that forcing the department to accommodate her would compromise the city’s interest in maintaining “religious neutrality” in its police force.

In Webb v. City of Philadelphia, a unanimous three-judge panel upheld a lower court’s decision that said the police department’s blanket policy forbidding officers from wearing any religious garb did not violate plaintiff Kimberlie Webb’s religious-freedom rights. For more about how the courts waste our time and money while making bad decisions, CLICK HERE.
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(4) So you want to be a big shot lawyer, do you?

The Habits of Highly Effective Law Firm Partners
Eric Seeger, The Legal Intelligencer

It’s harder to become a law firm equity partner these days, and harder to remain one as well. According to the Am Law 200 (published May 2008), nearly 85 percent of the highest-grossing firms in the United States have established a non-equity tier. Among the firms in the group that do not have non-equity partners, many are highly profitable New York-based and Washington, D.C.-based firms that have always been highly selective about entry into partnership in the first place. To read more from this worthless non-news item, CLICK HERE.