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San Antonio's Sam Hurd, who played for the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears, has changed lawyers and plans to plead not guilty in his federal drug-trafficking case this week, his new lead attorney said. On Friday, Hurd, 26, replaced David Elliott Kenner and Brett Allen Greenfield of California with Michael McCrum of San Antonio and Jay Ethington of Dallas. Both are former assistant U.S.

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A federal judge has ruled that people pursuing their Gulf of Mexico oil spill claims against BP outside of federal court do not have to pay fees to hundreds of lawyers working on behalf of about 120,000 claimants fighting the oil giant in court. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier issued the ruling Wednesday to clarify a previous ruling that left everyone still seeking damage payments from BP

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The three finalists to become top prosecutor in Las Vegas are due to make presentations on Tuesday to Clark County commissioners who will decide on a three-year replacement for District Attorney David Roger. The commission is scheduled to take five-minute presentations from county indigent defense office chief Drew Christensen, former Clark County Democratic Party chairman John Hunt, and Las

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Military lawyers for Guantanamo detainees who could someday be put to death are accusing the new prison commander of censoring protected attorney-client documents, raising a new legal controversy that spotlights ongoing concern about the fairness of possible military trials. The Obama administration reformed the military commissions in consultation with Congress to give accused terrorists

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About a dozen state attorneys general met this week to discuss their mortgage investigations and how they might work together as settlement talks with banks over foreclosures drag on, three people familiar with the matter said. The group, which met in Washington, included New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, California's Kamala Harris and Martha Coakley of Massachusetts, according to two

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Shawalie Khan doesn’t know when - or if - he'll ever go home again. He is one of the 171 men still detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, out of the 779 prisoners who have been held at the U.S. military prison over the last decade. And like other detainees, Khan remains locked up even though he was cleared of wrongdoing by a U.S. military tribunal. "He's there because a single paid informant said

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Escondido has hired a high-profile Orange County attorney to defend the city against a lawsuit alleging that its at-large elections discriminate against Latinos and must be replaced by a system electing City Council members by smaller geographic districts. City Attorney Jeff Epp said he recently hired John Ramirez of Costa Mesa's Rutan & Tucker law firm because Ramirez has litigated cases

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A clash between Texas and Johnson & Johnson that could end up costing the drug maker $1 billion opened Tuesday with prosecutors accusing the company of plundering the state Medicaid program by overstating the safety of an expensive anti-psychotic drug and improperly influencing officials and doctors to push the medication. In their opening statements, lawyers for Texas Attorney General Greg

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A federal judge called lawyers together from both sides of a North Dakota death penalty case and urged them on Monday to work together to avoid unnecessary delays. Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., of Crookston, Minn., is facing execution for the 2003 kidnapping and killing of University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin, of Pequot Lakes, Minn. Defense attorneys have filed a federal habeas corpus motion,

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Tuskegee lawyer Jock Smith, who was law partners with the late Johnnie Cochran, is being remembered as someone who won big verdicts for poor clients. He died Sunday at 63. Law partner Sam Cherry said Smith had an apparent heart attack at his Montgomery home. He said Smith had complained about feeling bad after returning home from a trip and died quietly while watching TV. Smith won what the

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Downturn in economy cited as reason behind trend A harsh economic environment is being cited as the reason for a rise in the number of Tennessee lawyers disciplined for stealing or misusing client funds. And some attorneys are taking money from clients and then closing shop without performing the legal services they were paid to do. "Some lawyers are just abandoning their practices because

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Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi's office has been cleared of wrongdoing in the May ouster of two employees widely lauded for their foreclosure fraud investigations. The state inspector general released an 84-page report Friday detailing its findings during a five-month review of the forced resignations of former Assistant Attorneys General Theresa Edwards and June Clarkson. The report

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Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue has named a panel to help screen judicial candidates, but Republicans immediately criticized it as being too laden with partisan Democrats. The governor named an 18-member commission, including Troy Smith, a lawyer from New Bern, and two people who have served as her lawyers, to advise her on whom to appoint to the bench. The commission will forward three names for the

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New attorneys for a Kansas doctor and his wife convicted in a moneymaking conspiracy linked to 68 overdose deaths asked an appeals court to throw out their convictions, arguing their trial lawyers served as little more than "mouthpieces" for a patient advocate who used the case to promote her own agenda. Documents filed Friday with the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals argued trial lawyers for Dr.

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A harsh economic environment is being cited as the reason for a rise in the number of Tennessee lawyers disciplined for stealing or misusing client funds. And some attorneys are taking money from clients and then closing shop without performing the legal services they were paid to do. "Some lawyers are just abandoning their practices because they can't make their business model work, and

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The Obama administration defended its healthcare overhaul law before the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, rejecting arguments by critics who warned that if the government can require people to have health insurance, it might next make them eat broccoli Administration attorneys, in court filings and at a briefing, said Congress was within its constitutional powers in requiring Americans to buy

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Norma W. Zeitler and Jennifer Cervin of the Chicago law firm Barnes & Thornburg have entered their appearance as attorneys for defendant Wal-Mart on Dec. 27. Wal-Mart is being sued in Madison County after a Glen Carbon woman claims she was fired from in retaliation for filing a workers' compensation claim. Rachel Madden also named as defendants her former supervisors Tom Archer, Judy McDonald

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U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier exiled Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell from Deepwater Horizon litigation and granted plaintiff lawyers a six percent charge on $14 billion in future settlements at BP's Gulf Coast Claims Facility. On Dec. 28, Barbier established a reserve fund at the request of a plaintiff steering committee preparing for a fault allocation trial starting next month.

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Lawyers working on the Howrey bankruptcy stayed busy over the holidays, filing multiple motions in late December aimed at moving along what is now a trustee-supervised Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Among the latest court filings: a motion (PDF) by the Howrey estate's unsecured creditors' committee seeking bankruptcy court approval to cut ties to a pair of federal putative class actions in which firm

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Go big or go home. That seemed to be the motto of large law firms in Pennsylvania when it came to growth opportunities in 2011. One-off laterals had slowed to a crawl since the recession hit and have picked up only slightly in the last year or so. That tactic seems to have been replaced with the desire to pick off whole practice groups or smaller firms. Blank Rome grabbed seven consumer

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About one fifth of Clark County's active lawyers rated Nevada Supreme Court justices and valley judges in the 2011 Judicial Performance Evaluation. The attorneys rated 90 justices and judges, and stories about the most interesting or important ratings will be published in the Review-Journal beginning today. Complete results will be accessible online at reviewjournal.com. The terms of some

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The Florida Bar, the state's guardian for the integrity of the legal profession, announces that the Florida Supreme Court in recent court orders disciplined 17 attorneys, disbarring six and suspending 10. Some attorneys received more than one form of discipline. One attorney was publicly reprimanded, three attorneys were placed on probation and two attorneys were ordered to pay restitution. As

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A Suffolk Superior Court judge made a decision in a private conference during a hearing held yesterday about a Twitter user linked to Occupy Boston, but it will be stayed for 10 days to allow attorneys to appeal, a court official said yesterday. At the court hearing, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union sought to quash a Dec. 14 subpoena from Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley

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An advocacy group that has relentlessly pressured Roman Catholic leaders to reveal the scope of sex abuse in the church has been ordered to disclose records to a priest’s defense lawyers that could include years of emails with victims, journalists and others. The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests has so far failed to block the ruling by a judge, which requires the organization to

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Melanie Griswold took a substantial pay cut when she moved to Santa Clara County, Calif., and started prosecuting crimes. A former King & Spalding litigation associate and Harvard Law grad, Griswold says she earns half as much as a deputy district attorney. But she isn't complaining. "I would've come to the DA's office and worked as a volunteer for free if I had to do that to get a job," she

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The New Jersey State Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the ethics complaint against an employment lawyer whose website bore the seal of the New Jersey Board on Attorney Certification, despite the lawyer's not having received the credential. Ty Hyderally, who owns Hyderally & Associates in Montclair, was accused of violating the state Supreme Court's rules prohibiting "conduct involving

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A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit alleging conservative political ideology drove a prestigious, selective Justice Department hiring program during the administration of President George W. Bush. The ruling Thursday was a setback for three lawyers rejected for the Honors Program that funneled promising young lawyers into government jobs. They had sued alleging misconduct by Bush political

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The longest Marcellus Shale pipeline may be the one that extends from the heart of Texas to Western Pennsylvania. On Dec. 1, Houston-based The Sadler Law Firm became the latest Texas energy firm to set up shop on the front line of the Marcellus Shale play, opening an office in the Southpointe business park in Washington County, the hub of the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania. The office,

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A prosecutor said Friday that new criminal lawyers hired by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia could be stifling priests and other church employees from cooperating in the looming child sex-abuse trial of current and former priests. Assistant District Attorney Patrick Blessington cited a memo sent this month to archdiocesan employees reminding them to notify church lawyers before responding to

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Attorneys for victims of the PG&E pipeline explosion in San Bruno argued Friday that the utility's recent acceptance of legal responsibility for the deadly explosion is meaningless. The attorneys, during a San Mateo County Superior Court hearing, said the admission is a narrow legalistic one that doesn't prohibit Pacific Gas & Electric from also blaming someone else for the explosion that killed

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Lawyers for an extended family that lost four members when a military jet crashed into their San Diego home in 2008 said Monday they will be seeking millions of dollars for the accident that the Marine Corps acknowledged was caused by a string of errors. Attorney Kevin Boyle told The Associated Press outside the federal courthouse that the Yoon and Lee families turned to the court system after

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The monsignor awaiting trial for allegedly protecting pedophile priests has been wrongly smeared by prosecutors and in fact exercised "good judgment" when recommending what to do about clergy sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, his lawyers say. As proof, the lawyers point to the same cases that prosecutors say show Msgr. William J. Lynn was a key player in shuffling priests or enabling

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Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Wednesday designed to limit attorneys' fees after a well-known lemon law lawyer collected more than $150,000 in an auto-repair dispute. The measure, part of Walker's special legislative session on jobs, requires judges to presume attorney fees should be no greater than three times the damages awarded. Judges can award more if they feel it's warranted, however.

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Lawyers representing convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan argue in newly filed court documents that a bullet was switched in evidence at his trial and new forensic details show he is innocent of the 1968 killing of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. In the latest of many appeals filed on behalf of Sirhan, the attorneys are seeking to overturn his conviction. They repeated a previous assertion and presented

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In a divided opinion, the state's highest court decided Thursday that six lawyers at one of Maine's largest firms had violated one of the ethics rules governing the conduct of lawyers. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled in a 3-1 decision that lawyers at Verrill Dana in Portland had violated a Maine Bar rule by failing to have sufficient policies and procedures in place to prevent and respond

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Noted appellate lawyer Deborah Hankinson, founder of Dallas-based Hankinson LLP, has been elected to the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, an honor reserved for attorneys with a reputation for excellence in appellate work. The American Academy of Appellate Lawyers was established in 1990 to advance the standards and practices of appellate advocacy and to acknowledge outstanding appellate

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How to find personal injury lawyers in Los Angeles who have a solid track record to stand on In a perfect world, you could trust someone's claims about their record. Unfortunately, we live in a world where there are unscrupulous people who may inflate their successes, or even make them up out of whole cloth. When it comes to identifying the top choices for personal injury attorneys in Los

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill designed to limit attorneys' fees after a well-known lemon law lawyer collected more than $150,000 in an auto-repair dispute. The measure, part of Walker's special legislative session on jobs, requires judges to presume attorney fees should be no greater than three times the damages awarded. Judges can award more if they feel it's warranted, however.

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U.S. attorney says case highlights attorneys disclosing sensitive information At Tavon Davis' direction, federal prosecutors say, Isiah Callaway for two years helped orchestrate a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from banks. So when the 19-year-old got busted, Davis found Callaway a lawyer, who prosecutors allege in court papers alerted Davis when federal prosecutors came

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Arnold & Porter LLP and Bryan Cave LLP said today they will merge with smaller law firms, continuing a trend toward scaled-down deals in legal services. Arnold & Porter announced it will combine with 82-lawyer Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin PC by Jan. 1 to create a firm with more than 800 lawyers. Bryan Cave and Holme Roberts & Owen LLP, a 113-year-old firm with about 150 attorneys,

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The Florida Bar, the state's guardian for the integrity of the legal profession, announces that the Florida Supreme Court in recent court orders disciplined 20 attorneys, disbarring six and suspending 10. Some attorneys received more than one form of discipline. Four attorneys were publicly reprimanded and one attorney was ordered to pay restitution. Gregg Adam Steinberg of St. Johns County

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Republicans in lawsuit make switch following criticism Republican citizens suing state election officials over how to conduct recalls dropped their attorneys Monday after taking criticism over the first set of lawyers they retained. Nine state residents sued the state Government Accountability Board on Nov. 21 using Eric McLeod and other attorneys at Michael Best & Friedrich. McLeod and his

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Joshua Monson will be in a Washington state courtroom Monday, but he may not have a lawyer with him. Monson, who was recently convicted on a felony drug charge, stabbed three court-appointed attorneys during his trial, according to authorities. The alleged serial stabbings of defense attorneys transformed what would usually be a run-of-the-mill local criminal trial into a national news story.

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Former Schenectady resident faces terrorism charges Prosecutors and a defense lawyer have agreed to delay having a grand jury weigh in on a terrorism case against a man accused of assembling a homemade bomb to try to blow up targets including police cars and post offices, his lawyer said. Jose Pimentel, a former Schenectady resident, had been scheduled to learn Monday whether he had been

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While gearing up for the former governor's Dec. 6 sentencing, Rod Blagojevich's attorneys have requested that previously unaired recordings obtained during federal surveillance to be made public, and for a special hearing to review questions that arose during Tony Rezko's sentencing about lobbyist John Wyma, who testified in the former governor's trial. Blagojevich's attorneys filed the request

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Attorney Harrison Williams should have made $75,000 for work he did on behalf of a prisoner who filed a lawsuit. Instead, an appeals court ruled, he earned $1.50. The prisoner, who claimed he had his religious rights violated when his dreadlocks were touched, was awarded one dollar. Williams said the Nov. 15 ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan may discourage lawyers

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Los Angeles - An attorney with the National Lawyers Guild called today for the immediate release of all people still being held on bail for refusing to leave the Occupy L.A. encampment at City Hall. "California law is clear," said guild attorney and board member Carol Sobel. Sobel said the law requires "that anyone charged with a misdemeanor shall be released with a written notice to appear."

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At a hearing for former Minneapolis park police chief accused of molesting a boy, his attorney accused a prosecutor of misconduct. Defense attorneys and prosecutors scrapped Friday over admitting controversial evidence in the child molestation case of an ex-Minneapolis park police chief accused of abusing a boy for three years. Friday's hearing was the first after a lengthy gap in the case of

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Lawyers finished questioning Zenaida Gonzalez 12 hours later in a deposition for the civil suit filed against Casey Anthony. The woman claiming Casey Anthony ruined her life remains was in the hot seat, answering questions under oath. A judge ordered the deposition finish the same night. It ended 12 hours later. Casey Anthony's attorneys said the lengthy questioning was to find out the truth.

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A 20-year-old Pennsylvania man has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of making harassing phone calls in a case involving Sarah Palin's lawyers. Shawn Christy filed notice Monday in U.S. District Court that he intends to plead guilty in an expected plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Christy plans to plead guilty and be sentenced Dec. 1, according to the document filed by Mary

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Russell Hilliard, a partner at Upton & Hatfield, LLP based out of the law firm's Portsmouth office, is one of only four from New Hampshire named by Super Lawyers to its 2011 list of Top 100 New England Attorneys. Lawyers are selected for Super Lawyers distinction following an extensive balloting, research and screening process that involves the state's lawyers nominating the best attorneys

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Already facing a 30-day suspension for one professional violation, whistle-blower lawyer Mike Stefani has been cited by a state Attorney Discipline panel for another ethical breach related to the text-message scandal that toppled ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. The three-member panel said in a decision released Thursday that Stefani misled Kwame Kilpatrick's lawyer Samuel McCargo during

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he attorneys representing the Grant County PUD have been disqualified in a lawsuit brought by Crescent Bar Island residents. Jeffers Danielson Sonn and Aylward Law Firm, of Wenatchee, began representing the utility when the lawsuit began at the start of the year. A federal judge agreed with the residents finding the attorneys had a conflict of interest. Senior United States District Judge

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The Supreme Court on Friday named an attorney to argue that challenges to President Barack Obama's healthcare insurance requirements must wait until after that part of the law has taken effect in 2014 The high court also appointed a second attorney to argue that all other parts of the law can stand if the centerpiece provision - the requirement that all Americans buy insurance by 2014 or pay a

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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has hired an outside consultant as part of a plan to revamp the office's employee discipline policy. Arpaio announced Mike Branham's hiring Tuesday. Branham will review the department's current policies and develop a uniformed disciplinary practice to include mitigating and aggravated circumstances. Arpaio says the intent of the discipline policy is to ensure

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Hearing comes ahead of LaSaracina sentencing Former Norwich accountant F. Robert LaSaracina defrauded 29 victims, prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed on Tuesday. The agreement came as part of an ongoing series of hearings in advance of LaSaracina’s sentencing in federal court in Hartford. U.S. District Judge Christopher Droney has asked for concrete numbers on which to base the sentence

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Each day, a team of 70 lawyers gathers in a New Orleans office suite to pore over a mountain of documents, study depositions and formulate arguments The attorneys, representing condominium owners, oyster fishermen, hoteliers, beach towns and others who claim to have been hurt by last year's BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, are gearing up for one of the biggest legal showdowns in U.S. history.

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Jill M. Scheidt says forms cannot replace the knowledge attorneys bring to the table The president of the Berks County Bar Association recommends that everyone have an attorney rather than filling out self-representation forms available in the county law library. "Practicing law and litigating cases are much more than filling out forms," attorney Jill M. Scheidt said. "Over 40 percent of the

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The federal investigation into the collapse of MF Global is ramping up with several more executives, including a long-time colleague of former CEO Jon Corzine, hiring criminal defense attorneys. Executives at the failed futures brokerage house are in the process of hiring lawyers as a federal grand jury in New York recently began issuing subpoenas seeking information and records, say people

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Police manipulated a man they knew was mentally unstable to concoct a terrorism case out of a staged weapons buy and ambiguous remarks about blowing up synagogues, his lawyers said Wednesday as they asked a judge to toss out the charges against him. Ahmed Ferhani's lawyers said hate crime charges and a rarely used state terrorism law have been misapplied to what they have called a case of police

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Way too often, a lawyer gives the client the best advice he can, perhaps the advice that every other skilled lawyer would impart under the circumstances, only to be met with the client's foolish rejection of it. Nonetheless, such a result is altogether fair - the client, not the lawyer, will ultimately pay the price for his decision, and so he should indeed be the one to decide. Lawyers can only

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Woman allegedly concealed 2 convictions during jury selection Lawyers for Springfield power broker William Cellini say they will file for a mistrial as soon as Monday based on a report in the Tribune that a juror apparently concealed two felony convictions from court officials during jury selection. One issue could turn on whether the juror was eligible to serve on the panel that convicted

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Federal investigators began targeting prominent attorney Robert A. George only after they were approached by an informant in February 2009, who said George had offered to help him launder money, according to court records filed yesterday in US District Court in Boston. The records also deny that a high-ranking member of the US attorney's office had any involvement in the investigation,

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In a deposition made public Tuesday, Mike Davis, a former assistant district attorney in Williamson County, pointed the finger for any alleged wrongdoing that led to the prosecution of Michael Morton directly at his former boss, Ken Anderson. Davis provided testimony Oct. 29 as part of an ongoing investigation by defense lawyers into whether Williamson County officials intentionally withheld

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The U.S. Supreme Court is historically averse to opening up a can of worms, so it comes as no surprise the justices looked darkly last week at cases asking them to consider whether defendants are constitutionally harmed when they pass up plea bargains through the actions of "ineffective" -- read incompetent -- lawyers. If the high court were to turn the constitutional spotlight on plea bargains

agluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08516193353183108362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5543827326696021447.post-41991442392997979392011-11-07T02:45:00.000-05:002011-11-07T02:45:38.350-05:00

Several groups of lawyers from around the country, including some who have given thousands of dollars to Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster's re-election campaign, are vying to represent Missouri in a lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. Koster's campaign reports show he's received at least $182,000 from firms seeking to work on the case involving the drug Avandia, which has

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Attorneys for a Las Vegas lawyer and her former police officer boyfriend want a judge to throw out an indictment alleging the couple conspired in a botched arson-murder-suicide scheme that unraveled after the lawyer was found unconscious in her burning home. In a document filed this week in Clark County District Court, defense attorneys Tom Pitaro and John Momot accuse prosecutors of improperly

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A law firm has demanded that Pennsylvania environmental regulators force a natural-gas driller to continue delivering replacement water to residents of a town whose drinking water wells were tainted with methane and possibly hazardous chemicals. Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. has been delivering water to homes in the northeastern Pennsylvania village of Dimock since January 2009. The Houston-based energy

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STORY: Ind. relief fund raises questions, concerns STORY: Sugarland plans Indiana benefit concert "This is still a very fluid process," Corbin said. But attorneys say some people who submitted claims will inevitably walk away empty-handed. The deadline to submit the claims was Tuesday, and the attorney general's office had received 90 by the end of the day. It could receive more via mail, and

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Opponents decry Vos' legislation as anti-consumer The lawmaker who introduced a bill to cap attorney fees in consumer litigation never mentioned that he, as a landlord, faces a pending claim of $20,000 in such fees from a case over a student house in Whitewater. Rep. Robin Vos (R-Rochester) said he wrote the bill capping fees at three times a plaintiff's monetary damages after a car dealer in

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A lawyer for Jared Lee Loughner tells an appeals court panel that forcing antipsychotic drugs on the Tucson shooting suspect violates his rights. A prosecutor says doctors are authorized to cure him. Attorneys for the government and Jared Lee Loughner battled before a federal appeals court panel Tuesday over whether forcing antipsychotic drugs on the Tucson shooting defendant is legally

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Lawyers representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say authorities at the military base have begun reading privileged attorney-client communication - in a sharp break with past practice. Legal mail is the principal means of communication between detainees charged in military commissions and their military defense attorneys,who are based in the Washington area. In a letter Tuesday, nine of

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Attorneys who get their first job out of college with the state generally start at $40,000 a year, but if you’re in the Office of the Public Defender, the chance to increase your pay with experience is less than those of other government lawyers, a survey of salaries showed last year. Also, the public-defender system, when it has to hire outside lawyer on contract, pays them $60 an hour -

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Dozens of career antitrust lawyers at the Justice Department are likely to quit if the department goes through with plans to close four regional offices, according to several of the attorneys. Officials this month announced plans to close four regional offices of the department’s antitrust division, in Atlanta, Cleveland, Dallas and Philadelphia, and to move 94 attorneys and support staff

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We’ve spent some time here on LB discussing bad economic straits for law school graduates and first-year attorneys. Is there any positive news for attorney job prospects? Turns out there is. Patent attorneys are seeing a boom in demand, accounting for as much as 15% of law firm job openings, while representing only 3% of lawyers in the U.S., according to Bloomberg. The catalyst for the increase

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The New York man suing Facebook Inc. and its Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg for a large ownership stake told his attorneys not to hand over emails related to the case, according to court filings, the latest wrinkle in the ongoing legal spat. According to court filings on Friday, plaintiff Paul Ceglia instructed his attorneys to disregard court orders for Ceglia to hand over personal emails

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Eleven Jackson Kelly attorneys were honored as Lawyers of the Year Eleven Jackson Kelly attorneys were honored as Best Lawyers' 2012 Lawyers of the Year, the firm announced Wednesday morning. According to the firm's news release, only a single lawyer from each area of practice in each community is honored as Lawyer of the Year. Lawyers are chosen by conducting peer-review surveys where

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The San Diego bankruptcy lawyers at the Golden State Law Group, a team of attorneys who work to help consumers move through the process of eliminating their debts, hereby comment on a recent report regarding the enormous spike in consumer credit card debt in the United States during the second quarter of 2011 The San Diego bankruptcy lawyers at the Golden State Law Group, which is a law firm

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Miami international law firms are competing with New York City as the number one city to practice international law in. International Attorney George Rocky Harper sums it up with this statement: “Miami is viewed as a lower-priced alternative to New York with equally as sophisticated lawyers.” The rise of lawyers practicing international law in Miami, for the past decade, has happened, in part,

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San Bernardino County's transportation planning agency, the city of Upland and Caltrans are fighting the county over the use of grand jury transcripts from the Colonies corruption investigation in a pending indemnity lawsuit. In that lawsuit, the county wants the three public agencies - including the San Bernardino Associated Governments (SanBAG) - to pay any damages associated with storm drain

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To help her colleagues spot and ultimately steer clear of the career pitfalls of social media, chat rooms, message boards and blogs, Pennsylvania attorney Jennifer Ellis has developed a popular online continuing legal education course called, "I'm Begging You -- Please Don't be an Idiot on the Web." Ellis, a consultant who specializes in the intersection of ethics and technology, does not

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The Los Angeles Dodgers can keep using the two law firms that filed the team’s bankruptcy petition, Major League Baseball said, dropping an effort to have the attorneys fired. Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig withdrew the motion to disqualify Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross in Wilmington, Delaware, said last week that he didn’t “

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A Chicago attorney who used homophobic and offensive language to describe other lawyers has agreed to a temporary suspension of his license, officials said. Thomas Guadagno, 66, used terms such as "gay scum" and "child molester" to refer to other attorneys while soliciting traffic court clients, a complaint filed by the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission said. The

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Federal agencies are cutting honors programs -- and for lawyers, that means an even tougher path to a job in government If Richard Feinstein, who heads the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission, was applying for an entry-level position as a lawyer with the agency today, he said, "I probably couldn't get a job here." He's joking as he says it, but it also might be true. Not that

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As a trial looms for a Muslim GI accused of plotting a terror attack in Killeen, attorneys say there are indications lawyers are working out a plea deal. A deadline for filing a plea agreement in the case against Pfc. Naser J. Abdo was moved from Oct. 3 to Tuesday. Veteran attorneys say that's a sure sign a plea bargain is in the works, and that it makes sense for both sides. "What it tells me

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Virginia lawyers who blog about their cases, beware: the state bar may come after you for inappropriate advertising. At least that's the message the Virginia State Bar seems to be sending in a case against Richmond criminal defense attorney Horace Hunter. The bar has brought a misconduct charge against Hunter, who blogs on his firm's Web site about cases he's worked on, as well as national and

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A judge's decision still could be months away Iowa lawyers rested the state's case on Thursday, inching a multimillion-dollar, class-action discrimination lawsuit closer to resolution after four years in the Polk County court system and four weeks of a statistics-laden trial. Attorneys from both sides are scheduled to meet with Judge Robert Blink today to determine the coming schedule for the

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Lawyers for environmentalists and several Nevada tribes urged a federal judge Thursday to keep in place restrictions from a 2009 court order that blocks the expansion of a gold mine at the base of a mountain that some Western Shoshone consider sacred. Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp.'s proposed expansion would make the mine at Mount Tenabo, about 250 miles east of Reno, one of the biggest open

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Lawyers for drug maker Actavis broke ethical rules by asking expert David Bliesner about errors in a declaration for a case in West Virginia while deposing him for a case in Oklahoma, according to lawyer Don Ernst. On Sept. 30, Ernst asked U.S. District Judge Goodwin to sanction Actavis lawyers and rule that they can't refer to Bliesner's deposition. He wrote that they didn't tell him they

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Attorneys for the Texas county that includes Houston will seek permission Oct. 11 to hire outside lawyers to sue Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. over $100 million or more in unpaid mortgage-filing fees. The proposal was posted today on the agenda for the Harris County Commissioners Court, the governing body for the county. County attorneys will hire the same law firm, Malouf &

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Instead of speaking privately face-to-face, defense lawyers and inmates held in Orleans Parish Prison must sit within earshot of a roomful of people and speak over jail telephones or yell through crude and filthy Plexiglas-mesh partitions, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday against Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman. The lawsuit by the New Orleans public defenders office alleges that the jail

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The Supreme Court appeared inclined Tuesday to give an Alabama death row prisoner another chance to appeal his conviction after a mailroom mistake left him unable to pursue further claims in court. At issue is whether a missed deadline to file a key appeal is justification to grant Cory Maples a second chance, when the error was not the inmate's fault, and the result would mean a punishment as

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California employment lawyer Norm Blumenthal of Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik Selected to Elite Super Lawyers List Attorney Norm Blumenthal has been named to the California Super Lawyers list as one of the top attorneys in California for 2011. No more than 5 percent of California employment lawyers are selected by Super Lawyers. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from

agluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08516193353183108362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5543827326696021447.post-30111327152889371452011-10-04T01:11:00.000-04:002011-10-04T01:11:55.579-04:00

A team of private lawyers will defend the Democratic-controlled Legislature in a court fight over redistricting, state legislative leaders decided Monday despite objections from Republicans. The Legislative Council voted along party lines to authorize the lawyers. They will represent the Legislature in lawsuits over plans for new boundaries of districts for Congress, the state House of

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Prosecutors in Richmond and Henrico County, as well as Virginia's attorney general, all believe Thomas E. Haynesworth is innocent. Now it's up to the nine judges on the Virginia Court of Appeals. The court on Tuesday heard arguments from Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and lawyers from the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project on behalf of Haynesworth, who is seeking writs of actual innocence to clear

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A former executive involved in one of the biggest bankruptcies in South Carolina history is appealing his conviction for securities fraud, saying that the state failed to prove its case and that a judge shouldn't have allowed heartbreaking testimony from investors who lost nearly everything. Attorneys for former HomeGold Financial Inc. Chairman Jack Sterling will ask the state Supreme Court to

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Women haven't advanced as far in the legal profession as some had hoped, but many individuals have success stories to tell Michele Coleman Mayes has been a member of a select group—women general counsel in the Fortune 500—for almost a decade now. But when she first got serious about becoming a GC, she thought she'd been rebuffed. It was around 1990, and Mayes was then working in-house at Unisys

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Texas; Ken Magidson as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas; Malcolm Bales as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas; and Robert Pitman as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas. All four previously have served as federal prosecutors in the state. While U.S. attorney posts are some of the most important a president fills, partisan politics played a role in the delay

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The law firm of Venable LLP announced in recent days that Jan L. Handzlik, who is recognized as one of the country's leading white-collar crime defense lawyers, has joined the firm as a partner in its Los Angeles office in its national SEC/White-Collar Group. Handzlik joins from Greenberg Traurig, where he was also a partner. He is a nationally recognized authority on financial frauds,

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Dallas appellate lawyers Deborah Hankinson and Jeffrey Levinger of Hankinson Levinger LLP once again have earned recognition among the best attorneys in Texas in the annual Texas Super Lawyers list. Ms. Hankinson earned special recognition this year as one of the Top 10 attorneys in Texas, and Mr. Levinger is featured among the Top 100 attorneys in the state. This year's Texas Super Lawyers

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