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Doctor License Defense - The Khouri Law Firm
Attorney Blogs 02/11/2011Doctor License Defense If you are facing possible licensing discipline or revocation because of charges of violating prescribed standards of conduct or operations, alleged sexual misconduct, alleged billing fraud or other misconduct, you should only ...
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Court to review class action status in Wal-Mart suit
Attorney Blogs 12/14/2010The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide if the largest sex-discrimination class-action lawsuit in U.S. history against Wal-Mart Stores Inc can proceed, a case involving women workers who seek billions of dollars in damages.The nation's highe...
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Eugene, Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyer
Attorney Blogs 08/12/2010Max Mizejewski received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993. In 1997, Max graduated from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College and went on to work in the public sector before entering private...
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John Crane Inc. Found Liable for Engineman’s Illness
Attorney Blogs 06/16/2010A Philadelphia court has awarded more than $4.5 million to a mesothelioma plaintiff and his wife of 57 years. Few mesothelioma plaintiffs live long enough to hear a final verdict in their cases, making the outcome of this reverse bifurcated trial esp...
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Arnold Law Office, LLC - Oregon Criminal Defense
Attorney Blogs 12/17/2009Personal Injury - Auto Accidents - Premises Liability - Dangerous Products Wrongful Death Criminal DefenseDUII, DUI, DWIDomestic Relations - Dissolution, Divorce - Child Custody - Parenting Time - Supp...
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Imagining a Public Law Firm’s Earnings Report
Attorney Blogs 04/23/2008Nearly a year after an Australian law firm went public, many in the legal profession are still tittering over whether any American players would follow suit.By necessity, law firms are fairly tight-lipped about much of the work they do. That would ha...
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Same-sex marriage on court docket
Attorney Blogs 03/03/2008[##_1L|1400725235.jpg|width="90" height="119" alt=""|_##]As gay-rights groups call for marital equality and opponents warn of a public backlash, societal decay and religious conflict, the California Supreme Court is prepared for an epic three-hour he...
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How to find a good lawyer
Attorney Blogs 02/29/2008Q: I am looking for a lawyer and would like some tips on how to find a good one. Do all Illinois lawyers receive the same training?A: In order to be licensed to practice law in Illinois, a lawyer must receive a law degree from an accredited law schoo...
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Photo Tech Complicates Child-Porn Cases
Attorney Blogs 02/26/2008Each week, about 100,000 sexually explicit images of children arrive on CDs or portable disk drives at Michelle Collins' office.They are sent by police and prosecutors who hope Collins and her 11 analysts at the National Center for Missing and Exploi...
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Big-Law Associates Facing 2008 Salary Cap
Attorney Blogs 02/17/2008[##_1L|1090023031.jpg|width="125" height="125" alt=""|_##]When in 2006 big law firms bumped up the starting salary for first-year lawyers $20,000 to $145,000, we thought, those lucky associates! When, last year, they told us it was going to $160,000,...
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Office Romances & The Law
Attorney Blogs 02/15/2008Recently, on the American version of the TV show “The Office,” two of the main characters — Jim and Pam — confess to their co-workers that they’ve become romantically involved. In the spirit of openness and responsibility, the couple goes to the head...
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Have 2 firms? Make sure they relate
Attorney Blogs 02/11/2008For some entrepreneurs, opportunity knocks again and again. While practicing corporate real estate law at Jenner & Block, Jennifer Sara Levin saw an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of other professionals by sharing what she had lear...