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• SBSun: Cost of investigating DA Ramos’ office grows to $140,000

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 521
  Andrew Edwards, Staff Writer Posted: 11/16/2009 04:40:51 PM PST The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote today on a request to nearly double the money paid to a law firm investigating a sexual harassment claim against District Attorney Michael A. Ramos. The request, which County Counsel ...
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• Most Reliable Attorney Placement Firm Found In Local Directories

  
  Naked News — Authority: 173
  Attorney Placement Firm aims to help big companies in the supply of respectable individuals with legal background and expertise for corporate functions. This is the exact office for an employer who wants to have the best manning for his company. The office is established especially for legal practitioners who wish to ...
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• Main Role Of Legal Recruiter As Juridical Or Natural Person

  
  Naked News — Authority: 173
  What is a legal recruiter? It can be a juridical person or a natural person. A juridical person is one that is formed in accordance with the law buy enjoys the rights and privileges of a natural person. A natural person is simply the human being who has right and attributes protected by law. Whether natural or ...
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• Thank God We Dont Have This Problem in Texas

  
  Gold-Plated Witch on Wheels — Authority: 484
  U.S. Supreme Court restores, for the third time, death sentence for California murderer This is the third time the SCOTUS has overturned the lunatic 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hellbent on preventing the execution of monsters like Fernando Belmontes, who beat a woman 15 to 20 times with a barbell so ...
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• New Databases, Budgets and the ABA - Dec 04,2009

  
  The Law Librarian on Blog Talk Radio — Authority: 401
  Intelliconnect, cost-effective collection development and law library statistics//standards
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• Lawyer Returns to Law at Wilson Sonsini After Stint as Recruiter

  
  Corporate Legal Times Magazine — Authority: 154
  Robert Depew picked a bad time to switch from the practice of law to associate recruiting. In the year he recently spent working for Major, Lindsey & Africa, he made just one placement: himself. "The day I started was the day Lehman Brothers collapsed, and the fallout of that in the legal market was huge," he ...
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• Longtime Collections Firm Dissolves Amid Client Lawsuits

  
  Corporate Legal Times Magazine — Authority: 154
  Trauner, Cohen & Thomas, a Georgia collections firm that operated for more than 30 years, has dissolved amid litigation from former clients claiming that the firm failed to file suits on their behalf and used funds for those suits to pay its own expenses. A lawyer for the firm says its current operations are ...
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• Lowering the Raised Bar

  
  Corporate Legal Times Magazine — Authority: 154
  In Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, the U.S. Supreme Court held that in order to survive a motion to dismiss, a complaint must "state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face." Subsequently, the Court issued Ashcroft v. Iqbal, which confirmed and made more exacting the "plausibility" standard. Attorneys Joseph ...
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• A U-Turn to Avoid Regulatory Roadblocks

  
  Corporate Legal Times Magazine — Authority: 154
  Just as signs of life are emerging from the deal market with credit thawing and companies peeking out from their protective shells, Utz Quality Foods pulled out of a deal to be acquired by Snyders of Hanover after the FTC requested more details from the company in a second round of information-gathering done as the ...
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• St. Louis Archdiocese Spending More on Lawyers Than on Sex Abuse Victims

  
  Corporate Legal Times Magazine — Authority: 154
  The St. Louis Archdiocese has released financial figures showing it spent $352,000 last fiscal year on payments to victims of predator priests -- and more than twice that amount on lawyers. Numbers released by the archdiocese Friday show more was paid in legal fees than to victims for five of the past 10 fiscal years. ...
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• Court: N.Y. Attorney General May Subpoena Lawyers’ Records for Pension Fraud Probe

  
  Corporate Legal Times Magazine — Authority: 154
  New York AG Andrew Cuomo won his bid to subpoena the employment records of two lawyers in connection with his investigation of state pension fund fraud, when a state appeals panel last week found that the attorney general "enjoys a presumption that he is proceeding in good faith." In a pair of unanimous decisions, the ...
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• 9th Circuit Panel Rebukes Calif. Federal Judge Over Marcos Millions

  
  Corporate Legal Times Magazine — Authority: 154
  A U.S. District judges lax oversight of more than $30 million tied to the late Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos is "curious," a 9th Circuit panel said in an opinion issued Friday. The three-judge panel ordered that a new judge give a fresh accounting of the $33.8 million previously entrusted to Los Angeles-based ...
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• U.S. Trustee Objects to Third-Party Releases in LandAmerica’s Reorganization Plan

  
  Corporate Legal Times Magazine — Authority: 154
  The U.S. trustee in LandAmerica Financial Groups Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding is objecting to the companys reorganization plan because it releases nearly everyone involved, including lawyers, from liability for negligent actions. In an objection filed in Virginia federal court last week, the trustee states that ...
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• 5th Circuit Rules for Investors in Stanford Clawback Action

  
  Corporate Legal Times Magazine — Authority: 154
  The 5th Circuit has denied an attempt by the Stanford International Bank receiver to keep investors assets frozen, ruling that the receiver failed to show that investors were "relief-defendants" who could be sued in a clawback action and that the lower court lacked authority to freeze their assets. The decision will ...
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• In ‘Reverse FOIA’ Move, Defense Contractors Want to Stop Release of Documents

  
  Corporate Legal Times Magazine — Authority: 154
  The D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments Monday in a case where two major defense contractors are fighting the governments planned release of documents under the Freedom of Information Act, saying that the information is confidential and that disclosure should be stopped. United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney Division ...
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• Verizon to AT&T: “The Truth Hurts (Bitch!)” [Blockquote]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 544
      Okay, so I may have added “bitch” for emphasis—but this AT&T vs. Verizon lawsuit over the “Map for That” ads is turning into an all-out PR smackdown Read more: Verizon to AT&T: “The Truth Hurts (Bitch!)” [Blockquote]
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• Step by Step Guide To Buying A House – The Agreement

  
  Financial & Legal Matters — Authority:
  This is the long awaited sequel to the Step by Step Guide to Buying A House . In our previous article, I have discussed the pre-purchase steps which a buyer of a house should take. In this article, I will share with you what are the common understanding between the vendor and the buyer which are reduced into ...
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• [How-To] Download Torrents Without BitTorrent

  
  Technofriends — Authority: 142
  I covered the Torrent terminology in my earlier article titled Complete Torrent Lingo Guide (Understanding Torrent Terminology) where, I wrote about, trackers and BitTorrent clients and also how the torrent download works. Just in case, if you haven’t read that post ( do read it now, click here ), Torrent ...
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• Has CAIR Violated the Iranian Assets Control Regulations?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 811
  On November 12 2009, the federal government moved to seize four mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by the Alavi Foundation, a group allegedly under the direct control of the Iranian government.  The following day, the Washington Times exposed the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) for allegedly ...
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• Verizon responds to AT&T’s Map For That lawsuit: ‘the truth hurts’

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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