Recent Updates
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Ex-Secretary To Settle Suit Against Shapiro's Firm
Headline News 08/20/2007[##_1L|1201651408.jpg|width="130" height="90" alt=""|_##]A former secretary who alleged she was fired by attorney Robert Shapiro's firm for exposing wrongful billing practices reached a tentative agreement to settle her lawsuit, her attorney told a j...
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Researcher Asks Supreme Court for Help
Headline News 08/20/2007[##_1L|1319421207.jpg|width="101" height="102" alt=""|_##]A cancer researcher is asking the Supreme Court to block a decision handing ownership of thousands of blood and tissue samples to a university. Dr. William Catalona spearheaded creation of a r...
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Sonoma County Court workers file labor complaint
Headline News 08/16/2007[##_1L|1306940538.jpg|width="101" height="102" alt=""|_##]Workers at Sonoma County Superior Court who were prohibited from wearing union paraphernalia at work filed an unfair labor practices complaint against their administrators, saying the order vi...
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Law firm to dedicate Norton Commons office
Headline News 08/16/2007Goldberg and Simpson PSC will dedicate its new $5 million, 35,000 square-foot office building in Norton Commons at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday. The law firm is moving to the northeastern suburbs after 25 years in National City Tower downtown. Jo...
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Entrust Deploys E-mail Encryption for Top-50 U.K. Law Firm
Headline News 08/15/2007Charles Russell, a U.K.-based law practice, heard the resounding requests from their customers and clients: provide seamless e-mail encryption to protect sensitive data. In response, the top-50 law firm looked to Entrust and the Entrust Entelligence ...
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Law Firm Petitions For Access To Bridge Site
Headline News 08/14/2007[##_1L|1034123320.jpg|width="127" height="85" alt=""|_##]A law firm asked a federal court to grant its experts immediate access to the Interstate 35W bridge collapse site so they can begin their own investigation into what could lead to wrongful deat...
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Law firm for paralyzed woman entitled to $500,000
Headline News 08/10/2007[##_1L|1195235400.jpg|width="142" height="117" alt=""|_##]A law firm that represented a woman paralyzed in a botched operation should receive $500,000 more than the $1.07 million the state Legislature has already approved, a Broward judge ruled Thurs...
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Lawmaker seeks bridge trust fund
Headline News 08/09/2007[##_1L|1040330055.jpg|width="130" height="92" alt=""|_##]One weary week after the Interstate 35W bridge collapse, a senior federal lawmaker from Minnesota proposed sweeping legislation to establish a trust fund dedicated to repairing the nation's agi...
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‘Pant Lawsuit’ Judge May Not Be Reappointed
Headline News 08/09/2007The D.C. judge who sued his ethnic Korean dry cleaners for $54 million over a pair of pants will probably have to begin looking for a new job. A city commission has voted to formally notify Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson that he may not be reap...
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Law firm cancels political operative's sublease
Headline News 08/07/2007[##_1L|1383393147.jpg|width="130" height="98" alt=""|_##]Republican political operative Jeff Roe will soon be looking for new digs.Lathrop & Gage, the law firm that houses his consulting firm, Axiom Strategies, is terminating his sublease.Lathrop...
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Jurors' doubts weigh heavily in Davis case
Headline News 08/06/2007Five days before Troy Anthony Davis' scheduled execution, Brenda Forrest got a call from her husband of eight years.He had just heard a report on a Chicago radio station about a convicted cop killer from their hometown of Savannah. The report said se...
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Attorneys challenging bankruptcy court
Headline News 08/03/2007[##_1L|1400497357.jpg|width="130" height="90" alt=""|_##]Anticipating that the bankruptcy court may soon send child sexual-abuse lawsuits to trial, lawyers for the San Diego diocese are seeking to have a different federal judge determine how much the...