Recent Updates
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Role of politically connected law firm questioned
Headline News 01/16/2008Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan's office asked a Cook County judge Tuesday to remove a law firm with close ties to Gov. Rod Blagojevich from the criminal case of a one-time Blagojevich friend charged with stealing $2 million from the state. Blagojevich's off...
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Supreme Court rejects experimental drugs case
Headline News 01/15/2008The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to consider a ruling that terminally ill patients have no right to be treated with experimental drugs not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration -- even if that means the patient will likely die before...
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Appeals Court Rules Against Ex-Detainees
Headline News 01/12/2008A federal appeals court ruled Friday against four British men who contend they were systematically tortured and their religious rights abused throughout their two-year detention at Guantanamo Bay.In a suit against ex-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
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Chicago law firms expand in Charlotte
Headline News 01/10/2008In 1998, Chicago law firm Mayer Brown established an office in Charlotte to be close to that city's bankers. A decade later, its local rivals are trying to muscle in on what has become a lucrative financial-services center. Winston & Strawn becam...
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Fla. Law Firm Accuses Ex-Associate of Stealing Clients
Headline News 01/03/2008The West Palm Beach, Fla., law firm of Rosenthal & Levy is suing a former associate and his new law firm, claiming he is trying to steal clients. Rosenthal & Levy filed the suit in Palm Beach Circuit Court against former associate Andrew Fris...
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Deloitte to settle Delphi investor suit for $38 mln
Headline News 12/28/2007Deloitte & Touche LLP has agreed to pay $38.25 million to settle an investor lawsuit over alleged accounting improprieties at bankrupt auto parts maker Delphi Corp plaintiffs' lawyers said on Thursday.The case in U.S. District Court in Detroit st...
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IRS Manager Nabbed in D.C.Tax Scandal
Headline News 12/22/2007A Washington, D.C., tax corruption case that has resulted in tens of millions of dollars being stolen from D.C. government coffers now allegedly involves an IRS manager who is said to have been involved in the fraud scheme. Robert Steven and his wife...
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Legislature hires law firm to head probe of MnDOT
Headline News 12/20/2007The Minnesota Legislature is bringing in some hired help for its ongoing investigation of MnDOT's role in the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge. The Minneapolis law firm of Gray Plant Mooty will earn up to $500,000 to investigate the transportati...
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Prescott Legal acquired by Special Counsel
Headline News 12/19/2007One of Texas' most well-known legal recruiting firms has been acquired by a Florida company. Prescott Legal -- the 26-year-old Houston legal staffing firm that has placed more than 500 attorneys in Houston, Austin and Dallas in the last five years --...
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Law firm takes blame for Open Meetings Act violation
Headline News 12/18/2007A law firm took the blame Monday for two Open Meetings Act violations during a Campton Hills Electoral Board hearing that dashed one man's bid for office. Attorney Bill Braithwaite of Arnstein & Lehr LLC said board members should not have been ad...
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Hughes & Luce merges with international law firm
Headline News 12/18/2007Texas law firm Hughes & Luce LLP will merge with international law firm Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP. Partners at both firms today voted to merge the two firms, creating a law firm of more than 1,500 lawyers in 23 offices lo...
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California's emission-control law upheld on 1st test
Headline News 12/17/2007[##_1L|1305336780.jpg|width="120" height="118" alt=""|_##]California's first-in-the-nation effort to limit cars' emissions of gases that contribute to global warming took a big step forward Wednesday when a federal judge upheld the state's right to c...