JURIST - Paper Chase: Friday US law and business press review

In Friday's US law and business press, the Legal Times examines the career of Deputy Solicitor General Paul Clement, who is taking the lead in defending the Bush Administration's tactics in the war on terror.... According to the Fulton County Daily Report, next week the GA Supreme Court will hear a case to resolve a novel legal question over teenage sex and mandatory minimum sentencing.... The ABA Journal reports on a St. Louis attorney's system of "favor cards," Post-It notes which inform employees that they have earned a financial bonus for doing something to benefit the firm.... The Wichita Business Journal reports that the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace will temporarily suspend its unfair labor practices charge against Boeing. For background on this story, click here.... FindLaw's Writ features former White House counsel John W. Dean's column on how President Bush is testing the limits of presidential power, as well as attorney Mark S. Zaid's book review of And The Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank.

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