Mr. James L. Cott

"Unlike a lot of government offices around the country, [the U.S. Attorney's Office] is pretty much a revolving door type of place and people don't leave because of a change of administration," said James L. Cott, a former deputy chief of Ms. White's Civil Division who is now associate director of Litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

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Mr. Benjamin, like Mr. Cott and Mr. Kakatos, said there is no connection between the changing of the guard in Washington, D.C., and the decision of some individuals to leave the government for private practice.
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"I don't know what the statistics are, but people generally stay with the U.S. Attorney's Office for five or six years," Mr. Cott said, " ... and you will find that many of the people who have been in the office longer than that move on for a variety of reasons, such as financial reasons"

There has been speculation that the Bush Administration may be contemplating changes for U.S. Attorneys in districts throughout the country, and looking to replace Democratic prosecutors with Republicans.

southern district of New York, 2006apr11, Civil Chief James L. Cott

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"It's been established that without affirmative action, the number of minority students would be almost inconsequential," said James Cott, associate director of litigation for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

James Cott, associate director of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund, called the pending challenges to affirmative action, both involving the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the "most important civil rights cases to come before this court in a quarter of a century."

The high court's rulings in the Michigan cases will apply directly only to public colleges and universities.But experts say all schools, public or private, that use race-conscious admission policies are likely to take cues from the high court's ruling.

"Whatever the court decides, it will have a profound impact on who goes to colleges and graduate schools in this country.

James Cott, associate director of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund, called the pending challenges to affirmative action, both involving the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the "most important civil rights cases to come before this court in a quarter of a century."

The high court's rulings in the Michigan cases will apply directly only to public colleges and universities.But experts say all schools, public or private, that use race-conscious admission policies are likely to take cues from the high court's ruling.

"Whatever the court decides, it will have a profound impact on who goes to colleges and graduate schools in this country.

James Cott, associate director of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund, called the pending challenges to affirmative action, both involving the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the "most important civil-rights cases to come before this court in a quarter of a century."

The high court's rulings in the Michigan cases will apply directly only to public colleges and universities.But experts say all schools, public or private, that use race-conscious admission policies are likely to take cues from the high court's ruling.

"Whatever the court decides, it will have a profound impact on who goes to colleges and graduate schools in this country.

said James Cott, Associate Director of Litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

The proposed changes affected the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the basis for state ethical rules governing the practice of law.Under Model Rule 4.2, attorneys are not allowed to directly communicate with litigation opponents who are represented by other attorneys.Courts have inconsistently applied this rule to organizations, with some courts prohibiting lawyers who represent victims of discrimination from interviewing any current or former employees of the entity being sued.This expansive interpretation made it virtually impossible for plaintiffs' lawyers to investigate their clients' discrimination claims by talking to witnesses with first-hand knowledge of discriminatory conduct.

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James Cott, associate director of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund, called the pending challenges to affirmative action, both involving the University of Michigan, the "most important civil rights cases to come before this court in a quarter of a century."

The high court's rulings in the Michigan cases will apply directly only to public colleges and universities.But experts say all schools, public or private, that use race-conscious admission policies are likely to take cues from the high court's ruling.

"Whatever the court decides, it will have a profound impact on who goes to colleges and graduate schools in this country.

James Cott, associate director of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund, called the pending challenges to affirmative action, both involving the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the "most important civil rights cases to come before this court in a quarter of a century." The high court's rulings in the Michigan cases will apply directly only to public colleges and universities.But experts say all schools, public or private, that use race-conscious admission policies are likely to take cues from the high court's ruling. "Whatever the court decides, it will have a profound impact on who goes to colleges and graduate schools in this country.