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Lawyer's actions land him in trouble
Headline News 03/14/2008Some people say Detroit attorney Doyle O'Connor's refusal to approve the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative for the November 2006 election ballot was an act of courage.Others call the decision by the former member of the Board of State Canvassers an ac...
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Attorney General to Argue at High Court
Headline News 03/13/2008[##_1L|1182687551.jpg|width="127" height="85" alt=""|_##]Attorney General Michael Mukasey will argue a case before the Supreme Court this month, honoring a custom that his two predecessors ignored. Mukasey will be the first attorney general since Jan...
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US court dismisses suit on Barr's Plan B pill
Headline News 03/09/2008A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to halt sales of the only "morning-after" contraceptive pill available in the United States without a prescription.The suit was filed against U.S. health regulators over their decision to allow n...
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Patent police raid booths at CeBit trade show
Headline News 03/07/2008[##_1L|1143108003.jpg|width="101" height="102" alt=""|_##]Police and customs officials investigating suspected patent violations seized dozens of boxes of mobile phones, navigation devices and other gadgets from exhibitors in a technology fair, autho...
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Jenner & Block law firm cuts several partners
Headline News 03/06/2008Jenner & Block, a top Chicago law firm best known for its trial attorneys, has downsized its partnership for the second time in two years. At least 10 partners have been told in recent weeks they will have to give up their equity in the firm, wit...
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Millions Awarded in Jackson Taping Suit
Headline News 03/05/2008The owner of a air charter service was ordered to pay attorney Mark Geragos and an associate several million dollars for ordering the secret videotaping of Michael Jackson and the lawyers as they flew with the pop star to his surrender on molestation...
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A law firm's bitter breakup laid bare
Headline News 03/05/2008They call him "psychologically abusive." He insists their "venomous attacks" and "reckless hyperbole" are motivated by greed and personal vendettas.They say they were appalled by his "fiscal and executive mismanagement" and "reckless and wasteful spe...
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Another law firm surfaces in Rezko case
Headline News 03/04/2008The name of the Bryan Cave law firm has come up in pretrial legal battles in the criminal case against politically connected entrepreneur Antoin "Tony" Rezko.In a footnote to a motion last week seeking to exclude some government evidence against Rezk...
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Florida health providers refunded $125M
Headline News 03/03/2008The first fully implemented year of Medicare's recovery audit contractors in Florida was a costly one for health care providers. They returned nearly $125 million to the government last year, a report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid showed. ...
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Law Firms Follow Banks to the Persian Gulf
Headline News 02/29/2008At Latham & Watkins, the international law firm, William H. Voge is the resident whiz on Dubai. And Abu Dhabi. And Qatar. Mr. Voge, who heads the finance practice, can recite when each of the firm's investment banking clients opened offices in th...
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Former partner suing Dorsey & Whitney law firm
Headline News 02/28/2008A former partner in the New York office of Dorsey & Whitney is suing the Minneapolis-based law firm, claiming gender discrimination and violations of the whistleblower act, among other things.Hennepin County District Court Judge Gary Larson heard...
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Two Birmingham law firms agree to merger
Headline News 02/24/2008Birmingham law firm White Arnold & Dowd PC and fellow Birmingham firm Summey & Hennecy have merged. Partners Sidney C. Summey and Karen M. Hennecy and their staff members recently agreed to join White Arnold & Dowd PC, which brings the fi...