Recent Updates
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Philadelphia: Scouts should confront anti-gay rule
Headline News 06/16/2010City lawyers called on local Boy Scout officials to muster "the courage of their convictions" and challenge their national group's ban on gays as a trial over government funding opened Tuesday.The city of Philadelphia wants to end its $1-a-year lease...
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Ohio convert's lawyer charged over records filing
Headline News 06/02/2010A lawyer has pleaded not guilty to charges she illegally disclosed confidential information regarding a teenage girl who converted to Christianity and ran away from her Ohio home.Attorney Angela Lloyd entered the pleas Tuesday in Franklin County juve...
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Transocean seeks delay of oil spill depositions
Headline News 05/28/2010The company that owns the sunken Deepwater Horizon rig argued in federal court Tuesday that plaintiffs should not begin collecting evidence and testimony on the Gulf oil spill until the November deadline for claimants to file suit.Transocean Ltd. mad...
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Sonnenschein, UK law firm to merge
Headline News 05/26/2010Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP and London-based Denton Wilde Sapte LLP have agreed to merge, pending a partnership vote June 9.Chicago-based Sonnenschein is one of the largest law firms in St. Louis with 750 lawyers, including more than 40 loc...
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Pa. abduction hoax mom accused of law firm thefts
Headline News 05/24/2010A suburban mother once at the center of a national abduction hoax stole more than $700,000 from clients and colleagues at the law office where she worked and posed as her boss before fleeing to Disney World, a grand jury charged Thursday.Bonnie Sweet...
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CPA firm seeking payment from law firm for tax prep
Headline News 05/12/2010A Charleston accounting firm is suing a Charleston law firm for helping them avoid a visit from the tax man.Grigoraci, Paterno and Associates filed suit on April 30 against the Law Offices of John R. Mitchell Jr. In their complaint filed in Kanawha C...
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Black lawyer rejected for Pa. bar in 1847 admitted
Headline News 05/06/2010As a scholar, poet and abolitionist, George B. Vashon broke barriers in the 1800s: he was the first black to graduate from Oberlin College, the first black lawyer in New York state and the first black professor at Howard University.But in his home st...
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Goldman Sachs Sued By New York Law Firm
Headline News 05/04/2010Law firm Wolf Popper, LLP announced Monday it has filed a class action lawsuit against investment bank Goldman Sachs on behalf of investors who purchased securities, options or common stock between August 2009 and April 2010. The suit claims Goldman ...
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Florida Probing Law Firm in Foreclosures
Headline News 04/30/2010The Florida attorney general's office is investigating possible misconduct by a large law firm that files foreclosures for banks, according to a posting on its Web site.The Web site said the office is looking at whether Florida Default Law Group, bas...
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Law firm uses e-mail to increase efficiency, new biz opps
Headline News 04/29/2010Midsize law firm Pryor Cashman is making the most of its routine news and communications, using e-mail to help create new sales opportunities. The company, which has 125 attorneys and 90 practice areas, has been using e-mail marketing for about five ...
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Goldman wages PR fight to clear its name
Headline News 04/27/2010Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is fighting to clear its name, but not in a court of law.Goldman has hit back hard against civil fraud charges with a public relations blitz aimed at poking holes in the Securities and Exchange Commission's case and repairing...
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Budget crisis puts LA court system at risk
Headline News 04/23/2010The nation's largest court system is in the midst of a painful budget crisis that has shut down courtrooms and disrupted everything from divorce and custody proceedings to traffic ticket disputes.The Los Angeles court system has already closed 17 cou...