Recent Updates
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Charter Communications sues law firm for $150 million
Headline News 04/07/2007Charter Communications Inc. filed a $150-million lawsuit Friday against Irell & Manella, accusing the prominent Los Angeles law firm of "critical errors" in completing a 1999 cable TV acquisition.Charter's suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Sa...
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New Hampshire House passes civil union bill
Headline News 04/05/2007[##_1L|1021454059.jpg|width="120" height="91" alt=""|_##]New Hampshire's House of Representativespassed a bill Wednesday to allow civil unions for gay and lesbian couples, placing the state in line to become fourth in the country to allow such relati...
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Lawmakers: Tax increase needed at the pump
Headline News 04/04/2007Some Michigan lawmakers think a gasoline tax increase is needed to improve the state's roads.A campaign by Drivemi.org encourages an increase in transportation spending, with a backing from AAA, construction companies, labor groups and chambers of co...
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US audit panel proposes financial statement rule
Headline News 04/03/2007U.S. audit authorities on Tuesday proposed auditors specify whether a company's financial restatement is due to an error or a change in accounting principles.The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) said the change to their auditing stan...
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Study shows $865B/year in U.S. Legal Expenses
Headline News 03/30/2007[##_1L|1156448708.jpg|width="140" height="157" alt=""|_##]The U.S. legal system imposes a cost of $865 billion a year on the U.S. economy, or $9,800 a family, a San Francisco "free-market" think tank reports. The costs associated with civil lawsuits,...
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Ex-Mass. selectman blasts sex-sting charges
Headline News 03/29/2007[##_1L|1109314654.jpg|width="130" height="90" alt=""|_##]Federal officials are "looking to make an example" out of a former Southborough selectman accused in an Internet sex sting, according to the man's lawyer. The US attorney in Providence has take...
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Hub law firm signs lease at new N.Y. Times tower
Headline News 03/29/2007Boston-based legal firm Goodwin Procter has inked a deal to lease several floors in The New York Times’ new Manhattan high-rise headquarters. The law firm will lease seven floors, totaling 216,000 square feet, in the 52-story Renzo Piano designed bui...
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Supreme Court rejects tribal appeals
Headline News 03/27/2007[##_1L|1386051430.jpg|width="130" height="98" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals by American Indians to step into a decade-old lawsuit accusing the government of mismanaging more than $100 billion in oil, gas, timber and other ro...
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Jackson Law Firm Sues Scruggs In Dispute Over Fees
Headline News 03/27/2007A Jackson law firm has sued millionaire trial attorney Richard Scruggs for allegedly withholding money it claims it was owed for working on Hurricane Katrina insurance-related litigation. The lawsuit was filed March 15 in Lafayette County Circuit Cou...
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Lakin firm plans to stay put despite eviction notice
Headline News 03/26/2007BP America, landlord of the Lakin Law Firm, intends to evict the firm from its office in Wood River in about 90 days.The Lakin firm intends to stay. The firm filed a complaint in Madison County circuit court March 21, seeking to extend its lease at 3...
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Biovail fires law firm hedge-fund case
Headline News 03/24/2007Canadian drug company Biovail Corp. has fired Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP, the law firm that engineered the company's high-profile lawsuit that claimed hedge funds and research analysts colluded to depress its stock price.Kasowitz Benso...
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Insurance company refuses to cover law firm's blog
Headline News 03/22/2007A law firm in New Jersey has temporarily halted plans to launch a blog because its insurance company would not cover the blog under an existing malpractice insurance policy. James Paone, a partner at Lomurro, Davison, Eastman and Munoz in Freehold, N...