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American student Amanda Knox has been found guilty of murdering her British roommate after a 10-month trial in Perugia, Italy. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollcito was given 25 years in the stabbing death of British exchange student Meredith ...
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A lawyer for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has reported that evidence in the corruption case was stolen from his Chicago office early this morning. The Chicago Tribune reports that at least one computer containing undercover recordings from the case was taken in a 4 a.m. break-in at the ...
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Rod Blagojevich
Comcast's proposed purchase of a controlling share of NBC Universal yesterday, and troops are being assembled. The Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) calls the deal, valued at about $30 billion "legal boomlet amid a slow season of M&A activity." The deal is "likely to require a small army of ...
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General David Petraeus
Two legal consultancies—.one focused on management consulting, the other on information technology strategy—announced their plans to merge on Jan 1. Hildebrandt International's and Baker Robbins & Co.'s consultants will work together under the Hildebrandt Baker Robbins name, ...
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NBC is developing a TV series based on the life of SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein. Press reports say the show will be called Tommy Supreme, but Goldstein says that’s likely just a working title, according to Washingtonian’s Capital Comment Blog. “It makes no sense, so I’m sure it will change,” ...
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The overall U.S. unemployment rate fell to 10 percent from 10.2 percent last month, but the legal services sector still didn't get off too easy.
According to seasonally adjusted statistics, the law sector lost 2,900 jobs in November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says in its monthly report ...
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A Phoenix-area courtroom officer who took a public defender’s document is in jail for refusing to apologize, but it’s not clear if he is in a jail cell. Adam Stoddard was ordered to publicly apologize for taking the document or to report to jail. He chose the second option. Stoddard said he took ...
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A disbarred Massachusetts lawyer has been released from jail after being held 33 months for civil contempt. After Richard Birchall was released on Wednesday, he ate a roast beef sandwich with his lawyer at a deli in Orleans, the Cape Cod Times reports. He claims he doesn’t have the $1.3 million, ...
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A federal magistrate judge in Philadelphia says lawyer Michael Hausfeld and his former law firm both violated an agreement on the distribution of class-action attorney fees and the return of capital contributions. U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy Rice refused to award attorney fees in the ...
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There is a reason why campus psychological counseling programs treat more law students than medical or business students, according to a law school career official. The economic downturn has increased employers’ focus on law school grades, leading to more competition and higher levels of stress ...
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Ruden McClosky’s Sarasota and St. Petersburg offices are breaking off to join a new law firm. About 23 lawyers and 27 staffers in the two offices are expected to join Adams and Reese, the Daily Business Review reports. The move gives Adams and Reese its first Florida offices and increases its ...
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Broadcom’s former general counsel won’t face criminal backdating charges because of a phone call by a federal prosecutor. The government plans to give former general counsel David Dull a nonprosecution agreement after a federal judge criticized the phone call by Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew ...
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Police have found the body of a first-year University of Michigan law student reported missing last month. Casey Neil McGinnis, 35, had hanged himself in a wooded area near a recreation center, according to AnnArbor.com. He had a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and had battled alcohol and ...
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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe revealed its new associate pay structure that will kick in in 2010. Orrick announced in July that it would be abandoning lockstep. According to a chart (PDF) Orrick provided to the ABA Journal, associates will be divided into three classes: associates, managing ...
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For the next edition of its annual law school rankings, U.S. News & World Report will ask deans to rate other part-time JD programs and factor those ratings into those programs' rankings. Law school deans, deans of academic affairs, chairs of faculty appointments and other tenured faculty ...
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Michael T. Toole, a judge in Luzerne County, Pa., was charged today with honest services fraud and filing a false tax return and suspended from judicial duties by the state supreme court. Prosecutors say Toole hid a financial relationship he had with an attorney, and that Toole had "improperly" ...
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Pfizer Inc.’s general counsel Amy Schulman has a theory about the way to force changes in law firm billing, and she’s putting it into practice. "I really believe that if you are going to try to do something that is fundamentally not based on the billable hour, you can't do it in baby steps," ...
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Valarie Wallin, a graduate of an online law school, has passed the bar in California and Wisconsin. Now she wants the Minnesota Supreme Court to allow her to take the exam there. Wallin is joining with three other petitioners to ask for a change in Minnesota rules that allow only graduates of ...
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On Wednesday, the morning after a sheriff's detention officer reported to jail to serve a contempt of court sentence, 20 of his colleagues called in sick for work at the Maricopa County Superior Court Buildings in Phoenix. Those same buildings were evacuated for three hours Wednesday morning ...
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An inquiring blogger wants to know: Why are blogs associated with large law firms sometimes so boring, and why did so few appear in the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100? Blogger Mark Herrmann is a partner with Jones Day’s Chicago office who writes for the Drug and Device Law blog. He identified only two ...
