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How law firms are failing New Orleans.
Attorney Blogs 07/06/2007[##_1L|1377148377.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]Law firms are the cavalry of the legal world. Disaster strikes, and the firms, with their thousands of lawyers and millions of dollars, ride into town to clean up the mess. But what happens wh...
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Our health care system is 'Sicko'
Attorney Blogs 06/30/2007Michael Moore is convincing: Our health care system is 'Sicko' "I always thought the health insurance companies were there to help us," claims Michael Moore early in "Sicko," his portrait of America's failing health care industry and the politics tha...
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Homegrown Law Firm Goes Big Time Thanks to Merger
Attorney Blogs 06/29/2007[##_1L|1029931487.jpg|width="120" height="91" alt=""|_##]One of the largest labor and employment law firms in the country now has a presence in Memphis thanks to a homegrown firm with ties to the Bluff City that goes back 20 years. Effective Sunday, ...
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Court Rules for Expectation of Privacy in E-mail
Attorney Blogs 06/21/2007[##_1L|1066659014.jpg|width="130" height="98" alt=""|_##]The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search stored e-mails. People that use e-mail as a form of com...
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The Supreme Court vs. Health Care Workers
Attorney Blogs 06/15/2007[##_1L|1175929016.jpg|width="101" height="102" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court just ruled 9-0 this week that home health care workers aren't entitled to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, a significant blow to low wage workers gene...
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Immigration reform falls to polarized politics
Attorney Blogs 06/08/2007[##_1L|1288482258.jpg|width="180" height="135" alt=""|_##]"The reality is most people are just desperate to see a solution. If this goes down, the opposition is not offering an alternative and that means the problem is still an issue," said Pete Brod...
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How prepared is your injury lawyer?
Attorney Blogs 05/28/2007[##_1L|1189419024.jpg|width="101" height="102" alt=""|_##]As a Virginia (VA) attorney handling injury cases like automobile accidents for about 18 years, I have come to recognize preparation as the key to success in handling serious injury cases in H...
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Get a life or just Google it - the choice is yours
Attorney Blogs 05/28/2007[##_1L|1039858274.jpg|width="90" height="119" alt=""|_##]Internet search engine Google plans to target people's interests using data collected on its users Lesley-Anne Henry asks: is this the next logical step or the thin end of the orwellian wedge. ...
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Key Reasons that e-Commerce Raises Tax Issues
Attorney Blogs 04/09/2007[##_1L|1112312292.jpg|width="130" height="98" alt=""|_##]E-Commerce creates new challenges to the tax systems. One of the challenges derive from the fact that a business can engage in e-commerce without having a physical presence. This is way beyond ...
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The Vioxx Litigation
Attorney Blogs 04/05/2007[##_1L|1254798332.jpg|width="140" height="103" alt=""|_##]On September 30, 2004, Merck withdrew its painkiller Vioxx from the market because of a study showing a small but statistically significant increase in risk of cardiovascular events from long-...
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High court ruling is major plus for cutting emissions
Attorney Blogs 04/04/2007[##_1L|1318697017.jpg|width="180" height="122" alt=""|_##]California and other states have taken action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from cars and trucks while the Environmental Protection Agency has looked the other way. A U.S. Supreme Court r...
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US and South Korea in landmark trade deal
Attorney Blogs 04/02/2007[##_1L|1158857426.jpg|width="140" height="93" alt=""|_##]Washington and Seoul agreed a landmark deal on Monday that will dramatically liberalise trade between the countries, giving the US an economic foothold in north-east Asia and helping South Kore...