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...Turner Broadcasting board meeting, across town in the offices of the company's law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, was anything but calm. "It was full of drama," says Robert Shaye, chairman of New Line Cinema and a member of the board. "The kind of stuff," he adds, "that good boardroom TV movies are made of." At one point, Brian Roberts of Comcast Corp. and Timothy Neher of Continental Cablevision, both directors of Turner with stakes in the company, walked out of the talks because they felt they didn't have the leverage to get the same kind...
Macias' break came when the postconviction phase of his case was assigned to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom -- one of the nation's largest and wealthiest corporate law firms. Douglas Robinson, a partner in the firm's Washington office, had volunteered with the American Bar Association to take a capital case, and he was randomly assigned to Macias. Robinson and a team of Skadden lawyers and paralegals went at the Macias case the way they would that of a private client. They spent money ($11,599 just for expert psychological testimony); they ran down leads (a partial eyewitness was located...
...Spite of Innocence, co-author Hugo Bedau, a Tufts University philosophy professor, identified more than 400 Americans who he contends were wrongly convicted of capital crimes this century. Robinson believes many death sentences would be set aside if the defendants received the kind of no-expense-spared representation Skadden gave Macias. Not all the cases would result in findings of innocence, he says, but many would end in lesser sentences. "If a good close look were taken and there were some real lawyering, I wouldn't be surprised if as many as half of them ended up with a different...
...Washington with someone who needs a federal handout. He is a graduate of Yale Law School, a former assistant to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and a multimillionaire. When his interests faced a challenge in the nation's capital recently, he alerted his high-powered law firm, Skadden Arps; hired one of the town's best-connected lobbyists, Rob Leonard; and got several of his well-connected friends to telephone a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, Robert Matsui. One of the callers was Matsui's campaign treasurer, a man the Congressman rarely ignores...
...Fellowship Selection Committee is comprised of 12 lawyers from Skadden, Plum said. The committee seeks applicants with strong character, a commitment to public interest and a special sensitivity to the economically disadvantaged, she said...