Recent Updates
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Law firm wants school district to pay $1.8M
Headline News 09/07/2007[##_1L|1199757954.jpg|width="130" height="98" alt=""|_##]The law firm that represented parents in their case against Seattle Public Schools' race-based admissions policy before the U.S. Supreme Court is seeking nearly $1.8 million in fees from the sc...
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New York law firm hired in Conecuh landfill fight
Headline News 09/07/2007[##_1L|1274102259.jpg|width="120" height="118" alt=""|_##]A grassroots organization formed to fight a proposed 5,100-acre landfill in Conecuh County has hired Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s law firm, which specializes in environmental cases, Kennedy's law p...
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Fugitive Political Donor Misses Court Date
Headline News 09/06/2007[##_1L|1206172925.jpg|width="130" height="90" alt=""|_##]Norman Hsu, the fugitive fund-raiser for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats who turned himself in to California authorities last week, failed to show up for a court appearance t...
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McGraw Hill's Bahash Faces Purported Suit
Headline News 08/29/2007[##_1L|1345126465.jpg|width="101" height="102" alt=""|_##]O'Rourke Katten & Moody said it filed a lawsuit against McGraw-Hill Cos.'s chief financial officer Robert J. Bahash on behalf of shareholders who bought the company's common stock between ...
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Vick may face long road back to the gridiron
Headline News 08/27/2007By agreeing to plead guilty for his role in an illegal dogfighting outfit, Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick took the first step toward putting 1915 Moonlight Road - the home of Bad Newz Kennels - behind him. But getting back to the gridiron w...
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Ryan hopes to pick his prison
Headline News 08/23/2007[##_1L|1235479427.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]At the same time that former Gov. George Ryan wages a last-ditch battle to overturn his federal fraud conviction, he is wrangling for his choice of federal prisons should the appeal fail. Pris...
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Law firm retained despite 'illegal' meeting
Headline News 08/22/2007[##_1L|1369987081.jpg|width="120" height="91" alt=""|_##]Although its actions were called illegal and one of its members walked out in agreement with that charge, the Common Council voted Tuesday night to retain a law firm to represent the council in...
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Judge Has Unprepared Lawyer Arrested
Headline News 08/21/2007[##_1L|1302297079.jpg|width="120" height="135" alt=""|_##]An Ohio judge angered state and national defense lawyers after he had a public defender arrested for being unprepared for trial. Portage County Judge John Plough had assistant public defender ...
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Ex-Secretary To Settle Suit Against Shapiro's Firm
Headline News 08/20/2007[##_1L|1201651408.jpg|width="130" height="90" alt=""|_##]A former secretary who alleged she was fired by attorney Robert Shapiro's firm for exposing wrongful billing practices reached a tentative agreement to settle her lawsuit, her attorney told a j...
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Researcher Asks Supreme Court for Help
Headline News 08/20/2007[##_1L|1319421207.jpg|width="101" height="102" alt=""|_##]A cancer researcher is asking the Supreme Court to block a decision handing ownership of thousands of blood and tissue samples to a university. Dr. William Catalona spearheaded creation of a r...
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Sonoma County Court workers file labor complaint
Headline News 08/16/2007[##_1L|1306940538.jpg|width="101" height="102" alt=""|_##]Workers at Sonoma County Superior Court who were prohibited from wearing union paraphernalia at work filed an unfair labor practices complaint against their administrators, saying the order vi...
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Law firm to dedicate Norton Commons office
Headline News 08/16/2007Goldberg and Simpson PSC will dedicate its new $5 million, 35,000 square-foot office building in Norton Commons at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday. The law firm is moving to the northeastern suburbs after 25 years in National City Tower downtown. Jo...