Recent Updates
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Florida Probing Law Firm in Foreclosures
Headline News 04/30/2010The Florida attorney general's office is investigating possible misconduct by a large law firm that files foreclosures for banks, according to a posting on its Web site.The Web site said the office is looking at whether Florida Default Law Group, bas...
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Law firm uses e-mail to increase efficiency, new biz opps
Headline News 04/29/2010Midsize law firm Pryor Cashman is making the most of its routine news and communications, using e-mail to help create new sales opportunities. The company, which has 125 attorneys and 90 practice areas, has been using e-mail marketing for about five ...
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Goldman wages PR fight to clear its name
Headline News 04/27/2010Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is fighting to clear its name, but not in a court of law.Goldman has hit back hard against civil fraud charges with a public relations blitz aimed at poking holes in the Securities and Exchange Commission's case and repairing...
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Budget crisis puts LA court system at risk
Headline News 04/23/2010The nation's largest court system is in the midst of a painful budget crisis that has shut down courtrooms and disrupted everything from divorce and custody proceedings to traffic ticket disputes.The Los Angeles court system has already closed 17 cou...
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Law Firm Expands CRE Services With Dallas Office
Headline News 04/21/2010Seattle-based Perkins Coie has opened an office in Dallas, which the law firm says will allow it to better serve the interests of national clients in Texas. Former Greenberg Traurig shareholder Steven R. Smith has joined the firm and will head the ne...
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Law Firm Advertising to Represent Mine Disaster Families
Headline News 04/19/2010With tragedy comes an outpouring of support but an area law firm's way of helping is raising some eyebrows. Underwood Law Firm wasted no time putting ads in local newspapers a week after the deadly blast killed 29 miners at Massey's Upper Big Branch ...
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US law firms see double revenue dip
Headline News 04/13/2010SIGNS of the damaging effects of the global recession on law firm business came as the top 10 US law firms with offices in London reported an average double-digit fall in financial figures for 2009.Often described as the bellwether for how the UK’s l...
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Law firm Mayer Brown lays off more lawyers
Headline News 04/12/2010Mayer Brown continues to hemorrhage lawyers, despite what the Chicago law firm says are "encouraging signs" for 2010.The international firm said Thursday that laid off 28 lawyers in its U.S. offices, which represents 3 percent of the approximately 92...
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Baltimore Law firm Ober Kaler to move
Headline News 04/09/2010One of Baltimore's largest law firms, Ober Kaler, will move its headquarters by next April from the Sun Trust Bank building downtown to the 100 Light Street office tower a few blocks away.Lexington Realty Trust, which owns the 35-story office tower, ...
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Conflicts Force Big Law Firms to Lose Clients
Headline News 04/07/2010Big blue-chip law firms are losing potentially lucrative assignments to smaller firms even as the industry sees a spike in lawsuits against banks stemming from the financial crisis. The reason for the change: ethics rules that govern conflicts of int...
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Bryan A. Lowe & Associates - Las Vegas Tax Law
Headline News 03/31/2010Founded in 1982, Bryan A Lowe & Associates is a law firm based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The firm provides a wide range of services, primarily in the areas of estate planning, probate, bankruptcy, general business (corporate, partnership, and proprie...
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Judge upholds DC's post-Supreme Court gun laws
Headline News 03/29/2010A federal judge on Friday upheld limitations on gun ownership that the District of Columbia put in place following a 2008 Supreme Court decision overturning the city's outright ban on handguns.Dick Heller, the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court ...