Recent Updates
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Lerach admits role in kickback scheme
Headline News 09/19/2007[##_1L|1386554067.jpg|width="120" height="101" alt=""|_##]William Lerach, the lead attorney in a New York-based law firm that lodged a $1 billion class-action against the CNMI industry, has pleaded guilty to a criminal indictment filed in Los Angeles...
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Two big Missouri law firms in preliminary merger talks
Headline News 09/18/2007Two of Missouri’s biggest law firms - Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin and Husch & Eppenberger - are engaged in preliminary merger talks, both firms confirmed Monday.The combination of the two would create a firm with 630 attorneys, ranking it seco...
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Law firms rethinking retirement age
Headline News 09/14/2007How old is too old?That's an issue facing lawyers across the country as the American Bar Association and state organizations consider proposals to eliminate mandatory retirement ages at many of the biggest and most prestigious law firms. Force...
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Restaurant group lauds N.Y. court decision
Headline News 09/13/2007The Washington Restaurant Association, which opposes King County's plan to mandate that chain restaurants label their menus with nutritional information, is lauding a New York court decision that essentially strikes down a similar plan. In U.S. Distr...
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Jackson, DeMarco Expands Offices to 50,000 SF
Headline News 09/12/2007The law firm of Jackson, DeMarco, Tidus, Petersen and Peckenpaugh has restructured and extended the lease on its headquarters at 2030 Main St., according to Studley. The law firm, which formerly occupied 34,358 sf in the building on a lease that bega...
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Court upholds bondsmen's right to solicit business
Headline News 09/10/2007[##_1L|1379550079.jpg|width="101" height="102" alt=""|_##]With phone in hand and dialing finger at the ready, bail bondsman Carl Pruett turned out to be a faster gun than the uniformed folks in reaching people with outstanding arrest warrants. That g...
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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...