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OSHA Case May Break New Legal Ground

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The business community is watching a potentially precedent-setting case that could sharply curtail the period of time that companies can be cited for OSHA reporting violations. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: case, Break, OSHA, Legal, Ground

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Suits Over Foreclosure 'Robo-Signing' Are Piling Up

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The expected litigation frenzy against mortgage lenders that used "robo-signing" tactics — mass signing and approval of foreclosure documents without verification — has launched, with class actions in Florida and Maine and a lawsuit by Ohio's attorney general filed this month, all against GMAC Mortgage. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Over, [...]

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Class Actions on the Ropes? Not Likely

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A victory for consumers and class action litigators seemed possible on Tuesday as the Supreme Court heard arguments in a high-stakes dispute over clauses that block class actions as a way of resolving contract disputes. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: contract disputes, Class action, legal post, Specific Cases, class action litigators, [...]

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Judge Kaplan Lays Into Plaintiffs in Ecuador Suit Against Chevron

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In a strongly worded opinion, a federal judge elaborated on his reasons for allowing Chevron to depose the U.S. plaintiffs attorney in the environmental suit against Chevron in Ecuador. | SEE OUR EXCLUSIVE FIRST RELEASE: THE TAPES THE PLAINTIFFS DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE | FULL COVERAGE: CHEVRON IN ECUADOR View full legal post on [...]

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Decline in Law Firm Diversity Blamed on a Few 'Bad Actors'

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The ranks of women and minority attorneys at U.S. law firms declined last year, according to a number of recent surveys, but the numbers don't tell the full story. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: minority attorneys, View, numbers don, bad actors, Story

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THE NLJ 250: Vanishing Act: Year II

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For the second year in a row, the NLJ 250 declined — the biggest two-year drop in the survey's 33-year history. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Law Crime, Year, history view, legal information, Year II, nlj 250, vanishing act

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Appointed vs. Elected Justices: States' High Courts Take a Hit

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After Citizens United, many people's feelings about electing state justices shifted from concern to dread. Katherine Helm examines the issues and surveys some of the post-Election Day damage. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Elected, High, Appointed, Justices, Courts, States

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Halliwells Ex-Partners Receive 'Letter of Death' on Potential Claims

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Last week, Halliwells' former partners received what they have dubbed the "letter of death" from the U.K. law firm's joint administrators at BDO, which warns that the ex-partners face proceedings on a number of potential claims, including breach of duty and repayment of overdrawings. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Death, Firm, [...]

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Will U.K. Management Trends Influence U.S. Law Firms?

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As law firms look to retool their business models, some may find themselves adopting trends at U.K. firms such as managing the work of other law firms or outsourcing companies for their clients, or creating a class of professional support lawyers who focus on research and drafting documents. View full legal post on Law.com - [...]

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Smaller Firms May Soon See More Laterals, Fewer Young Lawyers

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The flight of big firm laterals to smaller firms has not reached the heights many first predicted. But some in the legal community believe the apex of large-to-small lateral market activity is still on the horizon, along with a shift back to big firms for many young lawyers. View full legal post on Law.com - [...]

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Jailed Texas Financier Stanford Gets New Attorneys -- Again

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Financier R. Allen Stanford's attorneys have welcomed the newest legal team that will represent the jailed businessman on charges he bilked investors out of $7 billion. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: View, businessman, post, Financier, r allen

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'Robo-Calls' Spark Debate Over Justice O'Connor's Support for Ballot Initiative

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What began as an amusing story about a technical glitch in some automated phone calls that went out to voters in Nevada has since turned into a discussion of judicial ethics involving retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her passionate campaign in favor of judicial election reform. A significant number of Nevada voters [...]

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Ethics of Advising Clients to Make Social Networks Private

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Attorney Dan Nabel considers an ethical problem: What do you do if you discover something potentially harmful to your case on the public portion of a client's social networking page? Can you advise the client to change privacy settings to make that information invisible to the public? View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire [...]

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Appeals Courts Criticize Child Porn Sentencing Guidelines

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As the sentencing guidelines for child pornography crimes have grown increasingly harsh, a strong trend has developed among federal judges to reject the proposed prison terms as draconian. Now two influential federal appellate courts have declared that the child pornography guidelines are seriously flawed. A decision in May from the 2nd Circuit and another this [...]

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Judge's Unusual Order Revives Law Firm Diversity Issue

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A stir recently erupted in the securities class action bar after Southern District of New York Judge Harold Baer Jr. issued an order in a case against Gildan Activewear, directing two of the largest firms in the field, Labaton Sucharow and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, to "make every effort" to put at least one [...]

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9th Circuit Orders Mediation in Rio Tinto Alien Tort Case

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Nearly a decade into a court battle involving a foreign company and its alleged role in spurring civil war in a South Pacific country, the 9th Circuit is suggesting mediation. The court issued the surprising en banc order in a case that stood to test the scope and reach of the 1789 Alien Tort Act. [...]

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GlaxoSmithKline to Pay $750M to Settle Federal Charges Over Adulterated Drugs

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GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay $750 million to settle federal charges in the fourth-largest health care fraud settlement in the U.S. The deal calls for GSK to plead guilty to introducing four types of adulterated drugs for delivery into interstate commerce from March 2003 to October 2004. The drugs were made by subsidiary SB Pharma [...]

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Law Firms Feel Pressure From New Breed of Competitors

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The legal industry is falling apart, but not in the way pundits meant when they gave that diagnosis in 2008 as firms were hit with the reality of the recession. Rather, the industry is moving away from a monolithic provider of legal services -- the law firm -- to a fragmented platform where the competition [...]

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Patent Litigation Survey 2010: An Unexpected Turn

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Corporate Counsel's 2010 Patent Litigation Survey found that while there may have been less litigation work to go around overall last year, there was certainly plenty to keep the top law firms busy. One patent litigation trend that just won't quit is the ongoing flood of suits filed by "patent trolls." Another emerging trend shows [...]

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Cell Phone Liability Lawsuits Pre-Empted by FCC, 3rd Circuit Rules

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In a major victory for cell phone makers and service providers, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that consumers cannot sue over possible biological hazards allegedly caused by cell phone radio emissions because such suits would interfere with the Federal Communications Commission's exclusive power to regulate the industry. Plaintiffs lawyers had argued [...]

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