Bluestone Coke and other industrial plants have polluted north Birmingham’s Black communities for years. Now, they may settle with local regulators for a fraction of what they face in penalties.
The U.S. Supreme Court will not review the bribery convictions of a former Balch & Bingham LLP environmental partner and a coal company executive sentenced to prison for paying an Alabama legislator to help the company evade liability for environmental damage.
David Oscar Markus
After the premiere season of the podcast
For the Defense, Florida Bar member David Oscar Markus is set to release Season 2 January 26. The podcast focuses on the work of criminal defense lawyers.
In each episode Markus interviews a top criminal defense lawyer about one of their most gripping trials. Markus, a Miami trial attorney who has been called “a reincarnation of the old school criminal defense lawyer” and has represented clients from the head of the Cali Cartel to Fortune 500 companies and their CEOs, continues his partnership with rakontur, the storytellers behind
Cocaine Cowboys,
537 Votes, to tell trial stories from the perspective of the criminal defense lawyer.