Recent Updates
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NV Hospital District retains Carson City law firm
Headline News 05/17/2007After receiving only two Requests for Proposals for legal services, the Silver Springs Stagecoach Hospital District voted unanimously to retain the law firm of Allison, McKenzie, Russell, Pavlakis, Wright & Fagan.The Hospital District received on...
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State suspends law license of Cincinnati lawyer
Headline News 05/16/2007A disciplinary arm of the Ohio Supreme Court has temporarily suspended the law license of a Cincinnati attorney who was addicted to marijuana and cocaine.Ken Lawson has handled many high-profile civil rights cases in Cincinnati.He acknowledges that h...
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Lawmakers pull same-sex marriage bill
Headline News 05/12/2007[##_1L|1355677200.jpg|width="200" height="143" alt=""|_##]Legislative advocates for expanded gay rights withdrew a pending bill Friday that would have provided marriage rights for same-sex couples. The decision came in the afternoon, when lawmakers r...
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New questions for AG in attorneys' probe
Headline News 05/11/2007[##_1L|1306423287.jpg|width="140" height="112" alt=""|_##]Members of the US House Judiciary Committee questioned Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Thursday about the US Attorney firing scandal, demanding to know whether White House officials ordered ...
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Grasso gets a break from the court
Headline News 05/09/2007Richard Grasso, former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, may get to keep his $190 million pay package after all, according to published reports. In a 3-2 decision, the court yesterday dismissed four of the six charges brought by former New Yor...
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Senate committee subpoenas Gonzales for Rove emails
Headline News 05/03/2007[##_1L|1376635287.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]The US Senate Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday, demanding that he turn over any e-mails he received from White House political adviser Ka...
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Giuliani's Link to Texas Law Firm Could Cost Votes
Headline News 05/02/2007[##_1L|1218735781.jpg|width="120" height="120" alt=""|_##]Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani's links to a Texas law firm with connections to the oil industry could be risky, the New York Times reports. Giuliani joined the 400-lawyer f...
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The Cochran Firm joins suit over tot's death
Headline News 04/28/2007The law firm founded by the late Johnnie Cochran Jr. has joined the team representing a woman whose toddler was shot to death during in a gunbattle between the child's father and a police SWAT team, according to court papers. Brian Dunn of The Cochra...
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Judge rules against police taping lawyer
Headline News 04/28/2007A judge has ruled that there was not enough probable cause to allow recording of a conversation between an undercover police officer and a defense lawyer as part of an obstruction of justice investigation.Some attorneys across the state were concerne...
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Law firm sued over forgery by attorney
Headline News 04/27/2007A prominent Denver law firm is being sued after one of its attorneys forged a federal judge's signature on a legal document. The forgery allowed one of Faegre & Benson's clients to obtain a loan and pay the firm for work, according to the lawsuit...
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McCullough quits County Council race, leaves law firm
Headline News 04/25/2007Upper St. Clair attorney Charles McCullough, under scrutiny for his management of a widow’s trust fund, has dropped out of the race for an at-large Republican seat on Allegheny County Council, his former campaign coordinator said today. McCullough al...
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Court orders Missouri abortion case revived
Headline News 04/24/2007[##_1L|1177140951.jpg|width="104" height="138" alt=""|_##]The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week upholding a ban on an abortion procedure must be applied to a lawsuit in Missouri, the court ordered Monday. The two-sentence order threw out a 2005...