Recent Updates
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Law firms follow money in credit mess
Headline News 02/10/2008First came the $211 billion in write-downs of subprime debt, now comes the legal bonanza. In the past four months, nearly 20 law firms have set up subprime practices comprising more than 500 attorneys, many of them in New York. Not since the savings ...
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House, Senate Members Back DC Gun Owners
Headline News 02/08/2008Bipartisan majorities in both the House and the Senate are backing gun owners in a landmark Supreme Court case.The court next month will hear arguments in a challenge to the District of Columbia's ban on handguns, the most important gun rights case a...
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CA high court plans to hear gay marriage arguments
Headline News 02/07/2008The California Supreme Court has set arguments in the legal fight over gay marriage for March 4, assuring that a ruling will be issued by June. The state's high court will hear the legal challenge in San Francisco, where the battle over same-sex marr...
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E. Coli Lawyer Is Busier Than Ever
Headline News 02/05/2008[##_1L|1087016621.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]A girl fell into a 40-day coma after eating a bad Jack in the Box hamburger. Fifteen years later, she is still suffering ill effects. That doesn't bode well for a toddler who spent six weeks in...
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LACBA Seminar Focus: Class Actions
Headline News 02/04/2008Class Actions for Non-Class Action Lawyers is the title of a CLE seminar being offered by the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA).The program will take place on Thursday, February 21 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the LACBA Conference Center, 281 So...
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Lawmakers: Extend Energy Tax Breaks
Headline News 02/01/2008Unable to extend tax breaks as part of a broad energy bill two months ago, lawmakers are trying to attach some of them to an emergency economic aid package containing rebates for millions of taxpayers.But that strategy may also falter when the Senate...
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Miss.: Lawyer Will Take 5th in AG Case
Headline News 01/31/2008[##_1L|1031540157.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]Plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, facing corruption and contempt charges in unrelated cases, will invoke the Fifth Amendment if forced to testify in a federal lawsuit involving Mis...
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Law Profession Adjusting to Lives, Kids
Headline News 01/28/2008In the last two decades, as working schedules became flexible, and even accounting firms, of all places, embraced the mantra of work-life balance (at least on paper), there was one unbending, tradition-bound profession: The law. That is why it is so ...
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Judith Regan Lawsuit Settled Is Settled
Headline News 01/26/2008[##_1L|1041286377.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]The war is over: Judith Regan, the publisher fired in the wake of her efforts to release O.J. Simpson's hypothetical "confession," has settled her $100 million lawsuit with Rupert Murdoch's Ne...
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Atlanta labor law firm plants flag in San Francisco
Headline News 01/25/2008A fast-growing labor and employment law firm from Atlanta has planted its flag in San Francisco. Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC raided two law firms in the city for partners to launch its newest location. Thomas McInerney joined from Th...
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Texas Panel That Charged Justice Invalid
Headline News 01/25/2008A bizarre legal battle effectively ended Tuesday when a judge ruled that a grand jury that indicted a Texas Supreme Court justice over the prosecutor's objections was operating with improperly filed paperwork, the justice's attorney and the grand jur...
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Law firm creates climate change group
Headline News 01/24/2008Law firm Stinson Morrison Hecker has marshaled some of its lawyers from different specialties to form the Climate Change Practice Group.The group's members include David Bengtson, Stinson's Wichita managing partner, as well as 29 other lawyers in fiv...