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  • Patton Boggs buys Trent Lott's law firm

    Patton Boggs buys Trent Lott's law firm

    Headline News 07/06/2010

    Patton Boggs LLP, which operates one of Denver's top 20 law offices, is acquiring the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group, a Washington firm that includes former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., as well as former Sen. John Breaux, D-La.Lott and B...

  • American Bar Association Finds Kagan “Well-Qualified”

    American Bar Association Finds Kagan “Well-Qualified”

    Headline News 06/25/2010

    The American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary has rated U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Elena Kagan as “well-qualified,” the highest mark the committee offers. Since 1953, the ABA has had a role in reviewing th...

  • Legal deal for sick 9/11 workers back in NYC court

    Legal deal for sick 9/11 workers back in NYC court

    Headline News 06/23/2010

    Lawyers for thousands of Sept. 11 responders are back in a New York City court trying to rally support for a deal that would end a seven-year legal fight over the toxic fallout caused by the collapse of the World Trade Center.U.S. District Judge Alvi...

  • Embattled Texas judge faces disciplinary panel

    Embattled Texas judge faces disciplinary panel

    Headline News 06/18/2010

    A Texas judge charged with closing her court before a death row inmate could file a last-minute appeal is headed before a state disciplinary panel.Judge Sharon Keller on Friday faces five counts of judicial misconduct. The hearing comes nearly three ...

  • Philadelphia: Scouts should confront anti-gay rule

    Philadelphia: Scouts should confront anti-gay rule

    Headline News 06/16/2010

    City lawyers called on local Boy Scout officials to muster "the courage of their convictions" and challenge their national group's ban on gays as a trial over government funding opened Tuesday.The city of Philadelphia wants to end its $1-a-year lease...

  • Ohio convert's lawyer charged over records filing

    Ohio convert's lawyer charged over records filing

    Headline News 06/02/2010

    A lawyer has pleaded not guilty to charges she illegally disclosed confidential information regarding a teenage girl who converted to Christianity and ran away from her Ohio home.Attorney Angela Lloyd entered the pleas Tuesday in Franklin County juve...

  • Transocean seeks delay of oil spill depositions

    Transocean seeks delay of oil spill depositions

    Headline News 05/28/2010

    The company that owns the sunken Deepwater Horizon rig argued in federal court Tuesday that plaintiffs should not begin collecting evidence and testimony on the Gulf oil spill until the November deadline for claimants to file suit.Transocean Ltd. mad...

  • Sonnenschein, UK law firm to merge

    Sonnenschein, UK law firm to merge

    Headline News 05/26/2010

    Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP and London-based Denton Wilde Sapte LLP have agreed to merge, pending a partnership vote June 9.Chicago-based Sonnenschein is one of the largest law firms in St. Louis with 750 lawyers, including more than 40 loc...

  • Pa. abduction hoax mom accused of law firm thefts

    Pa. abduction hoax mom accused of law firm thefts

    Headline News 05/24/2010

    A suburban mother once at the center of a national abduction hoax stole more than $700,000 from clients and colleagues at the law office where she worked and posed as her boss before fleeing to Disney World, a grand jury charged Thursday.Bonnie Sweet...

  • CPA firm seeking payment from law firm for tax prep

    CPA firm seeking payment from law firm for tax prep

    Headline News 05/12/2010

    A Charleston accounting firm is suing a Charleston law firm for helping them avoid a visit from the tax man.Grigoraci, Paterno and Associates filed suit on April 30 against the Law Offices of John R. Mitchell Jr. In their complaint filed in Kanawha C...

  • Black lawyer rejected for Pa. bar in 1847 admitted

    Black lawyer rejected for Pa. bar in 1847 admitted

    Headline News 05/06/2010

    As a scholar, poet and abolitionist, George B. Vashon broke barriers in the 1800s: he was the first black to graduate from Oberlin College, the first black lawyer in New York state and the first black professor at Howard University.But in his home st...

  • Goldman Sachs Sued By New York Law Firm

    Goldman Sachs Sued By New York Law Firm

    Headline News 05/04/2010

    Law firm Wolf Popper, LLP announced Monday it has filed a class action lawsuit against investment bank Goldman Sachs on behalf of investors who purchased securities, options or common stock between August 2009 and April 2010. The suit claims Goldman ...

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