Recent Updates
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Tampa law firm faces contingency fees lawsuit
Headline News 01/13/2007A Tampa law firm that has garnered millions of dollars in neglect and abuse settlements and lawsuits against nursing homes in Florida and around the country is now on the defense end of a suit that contends the firm knowingly violated Tennessee law r...
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Supreme Court to review light cigarette dispute
Headline News 01/12/2007The US Supreme Court Friday granted certiorari in four cases, including one that will determine if tobacco companies are protected from judgments in state courts on the grounds that cigarettes are federally regulated. The appeal, Watson v. Philip Mor...
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Moss Adams New Audit Firm for Cherokee, Inc.
Headline News 01/12/2007SALT LAKE CITY-ZEVEX International, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZVXI) has executed a definitive Merger Agreement with Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B). Upon the closing of the merger, ZEVEX will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Moog. The merger is expected to ...
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Libby judge refuses to release audio recordings of trial
Headline News 01/09/2007[##_1L|1391704927.jpg|width="100" height="113" alt=""|_##]US District Judge Reggie B. Walton denied a request Tuesday from several news organizations seeking the daily release of audio recordings of arguments and testimony in the upcoming CIA leak tr...
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Lawyers take legal debates online
Headline News 01/07/2007Retired judge Stan Billingsley pores through news accounts daily to find the law behind the story. He's part of a new and growing medium that hopes to fill a gap in news coverage and encourage discussion of the law: legal blogs.Last week, after study...
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Bi-coastal U.S. law firm merger off
Headline News 01/05/2007A bi-coastal U.S. law firm merger that would have created a 1,200-lawyer national firm with annual revenue of $1 billion has been called off, the firms say.Dewey Ballantine of New York and San Francisco`s Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe called off ...
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U.S. law firm again at center of big CEO payout
Headline News 01/03/2007Law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is again at the center of a massive and controversial CEO payout, representing the board of Home Depot Inc.that gave its departing boss a $210 million goodbye.Wachtell's work for Home Depot marks the third ...
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Many Californians handle their own divorces
Headline News 12/31/2006Rising legal fees, fewer legal aid services and a do-it-yourself mentality are driving more Californians to handle their own divorces, but sometimes not very successfully.Court officials and legal experts worry that tens of thousands of former Califo...
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SEC Announces Administrative Judge McEwen To Retire
Headline News 12/29/2006Administrative Law Judge Lillian A. McEwen has announced that she is retiring from her position with the SEC, effective Jan. 3, 2007. Since her appointment in September 1995, Judge McEwen has presided over, and issued initial decisions in, scores of ...
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Court Reprimands Ohio Governor Over Gifts
Headline News 12/28/2006Governor Bob Taft (R-OH) Wednesday received a public reprimand from the Ohio Supreme Court for ethics violations stemming from charges that he received over 50 gifts worth up to $6,000 during four years in office. The reprimand will be a permanent ma...
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Samsung Korean Executive Agrees to Plead Guilty
Headline News 12/22/2006WASHINGTON — An executive from Samsung Electronics Company Ltd..– the world’s largest manufacturer of a common computer component called dynamic random access memory (DRAM) – has agreed to plead guilty, serve jail time in the United States, a...
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17 Guantanamo detainees sent home
Headline News 12/17/2006The U.S. military repatriated 18 detainees from Guantanamo Bay over the weekend to Afghanistan, Yemen, Kazakhstan, Libya and Bangladesh, a Pentagon spokesman said Sunday.The men, flown out of the U.S. naval base in southeastern Cuba on Friday, were a...