Recent Updates
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Treasury risks overpaying law firms
Headline News 04/18/2011The Treasury Department paid out more than $27 million to law firms overseeing the financial bailouts without requiring detailed bills or questioning the incomplete records that the lawyers provided, a government watchdog says. Treasury's "current co...
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Wis. public court record access may be threatened
Headline News 04/10/2011Wisconsin court officials fear the court's data management system, including a popular site that allows anyone to easily look up the criminal records of friends and neighbors, could be on shaky ground if the governor's proposed budget breaks up its f...
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2 companies fined for violation of Mississippi no-call law
Headline News 04/06/2011Another crackdown Tuesday on violators of Mississippi's No Call Law. State regulators say they've fined Full Speed Funding, LLC of Phoenix and Gateway Destinations Incorporated of Pompano Beach, Florida $15,000 each.Public Service Commission member B...
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Former justice Streit joins Des Moines law firm
Headline News 04/05/2011Former Iowa Supreme Court Justice Michael Streit has joined a Des Moines law firm. Ahlers & Cooney, P.C., announced Monday that Streit will join the firm's litigation, dispute resolution and investigations practice area. Streit was one of three I...
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Court: Eagle feathers only for American Indians
Headline News 03/30/2011Restricting use of eagle parts and feathers to members of federally recognized American Indian tribes for religious purposes does not violate the religious freedoms of non-Indians seeking the same right, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.The Denv...
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Colorado family sues oil and gas drilling firms
Headline News 03/28/2011A western Colorado family has filed a lawsuit saying that negligence by oil and gas drilling companies contaminated their drinking water and air and forced them from their home.Beth and Bill Strudley and their sons, ages 11 and 13, moved in 2005 outs...
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KABA News - Become a KABA Member Today!
Headline News 03/23/2011The Korean American Bar Association of Southern California (KABA) is an association of attorneys and law students that serves the Korean American community and promotes the interests of Korean-American attorneys throughout Southern California. ...
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Lawsuit against herbicide maker languishes
Headline News 03/22/2011It's been seven years since 13 southern Illinois water districts sued the makers of a farm herbicide, yet the case languishes in Madison County Circuit Court. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Judge Bill Mudge is the seventh to preside over t...
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Lawyer-legislator says ethics opinion clears Prattville lawmaker
Headline News 03/08/2011The chairman of the Legislature's Contract Review Committee said an opinion from the executive director of the State Ethics Commission clears a senator to work for a law firm that does business with the state.The chairman, Republican Sen. Bill Holtzc...
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Law firm suing Harrisburg helped city just months earlier
Headline News 03/07/2011A well-known law firm that helped sue Harrisburg for millions actually gave the city a hand not too long ago. Ballard Spahr, now representing one of Harrisburg's lenders, did work for the Thompson administration just months earlier. That's raising so...
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Trustee seeking assets in Madoff case sues NY firm
Headline News 03/02/2011A trustee recovering assets for investors in the multibillion-dollar Bernard Madoff (MAY'-dawf) fraud has sued a New York-based investment management company that operated a hedge fund that invested heavily with Madoff.The lawsuit was filed in Decemb...
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Why Lawyers Need a Website
Headline News 03/02/2011Lawyer Website Design In recent years, the internet has become the most important marketing tool you have. By typing a few words, a potential client can find hundreds of lawyers and law firms that you must now compete with.Having a website is an exce...