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A Supreme Shutout
Environmentalists are 0-for- 5 at the high court this term.
BY MARCIA COYLE
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Environmentalists suffered a stunning 0-for- 5 outcome in
the U.S. Supreme Court this term, their “worst term ever,”
according to advocates and scholars.
The defeats left the environmental community, and even
ts traditional antagonist in these cases—the business com-
munity—wondering where the Court is heading in this
increasingly important area of the law.
Is the Roberts Court pro-business, anti-environment, pro-government—or something else? Their answers are as varied
as the issues raised in the five cases that the justices decided.
What is clear is the Court’s heightened interest in environ-
SEE ENVIRONMENT, PAGE 10
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Can the Voting Rights Act
survive another challenge?
Lawyers say release from federal supervision may get easier.
BY TONY MAURO
Within 24 hours of the U.S. Supreme
Court’s June 22 ruling rescuing the Voting
Rights Act from constitutional oblivion, the
decision produced a potential client for J.
Gerald Hebert.
Hebert got a call from a North Carolina
town that, before the ruling, was not eligible to get out from under the federal super-
SEE VOTING RIGHTS AC T, PAGE 6
J. GERALD HEBERT
For some firms, an extra
step for the newest recruits
Howrey the latest to adopt associate-as-apprentice model.
BY JEFF JEFFRE Y
After three years of law school, a hundred grand of debt and weeks sweating
out a bar review and exam, it’s time to
start practicing law in earnest, right?
At a handful of firms, the answer is
fast becoming “not yet.” These firms are
putting new recruits through additional
apprenticeship programs that they say
will better train their attorneys for life at
a law firm and for handling clients. Think
of it as the equivalent of a medical residency, only with suits instead of scrubs.
The latest—and so far largest—firm
to move to an apprenticeship model,
659-lawyer Howrey, announced its program last week. Starting next year, first-years at the firm will get a pay cut—from
$160,000 to $100,000 in base pay plus a
$25,000 bonus to pay down law school
SEE APPRENTICESHIP, PAGE 7
For more than 25 years, we represented business interests
as Spriggs & Hollingsworth. Now, the only name
you need to know for complex civil, criminal, and
administrative litigation matters is…
