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  • RI gov, union back in court over health insurance

    RI gov, union back in court over health insurance

    Headline Legal News 08/25/2008

    Lawyers for Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri and the state's largest employees union are heading back to court in a health insurance dispute.During a court hearing Monday, Council 94 will ask Superior Court Judge Patricia Hurst to delay a ruling that c...

  • Indictments to stand against DeLay associates

    Indictments to stand against DeLay associates

    Headline Legal News 08/23/2008

    An appeals court has declined to throw out money-laundering indictments against two of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's political operatives, who had claimed that state elections law used to charge them was too confusing to proceed.Attorneys ...

  • N.Y. Judge Files $10 Million Defamation Suit

    N.Y. Judge Files $10 Million Defamation Suit

    Headline Legal News 05/05/2008

    A Brooklyn judge has filed an unusual $10 million defamation suit against attorney Ravi Batra and the New York Daily News. The suit, Martin v. Daily News, 100053/08, filed earlier this year in Manhattan Supreme Court by Justice Larry D. Martin, alleg...

  • Know Your Lawyer in Illinois

    Know Your Lawyer in Illinois

    Headline Legal News 04/04/2008

    The demands of society to protect personal and property rights of all persons have resulted in an increasingly complex system of laws. Long ago it became necessary for some to devote themselves to study and knowledge of the law so the majority could ...

  • Nominees Announced for 10TH Judicial Circuit

    Nominees Announced for 10TH Judicial Circuit

    Headline Legal News 03/27/2008

    fter consultation with The Florida Bar and general counsel for Gov. Charlie Crist, the 10th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission met on March 24, 2008, and named additional nominees for the two circuit judge positions made vacant by the retirements...

  • State bar hears from Supreme Court candidates

    State bar hears from Supreme Court candidates

    Headline Legal News 03/20/2008

    Four of the five candidates for West Virginia's Supreme Court believe it faces several serious threats to its integrity and reputation. A declining number of opinions, allegedly unfair treatment of businesses and civility among the justices were amon...

  • Kentucky Bar Association investigates two presidents-elect

    Kentucky Bar Association investigates two presidents-elect

    Headline Legal News 03/14/2008

    In two unrelated cases, the Kentucky Bar Association is investigating alleged ethics violations by its own future president as well as another lawyer who was slated to become president of the Louisville Bar Association next year. The two accused atto...

  • Lawyer who abandoned client suspended

    Lawyer who abandoned client suspended

    Headline Legal News 03/11/2008

    The Supreme Court of Georgia issued the following decisions disciplining members of the State Bar: In the Supreme Court of Georgia Decided: March 10, 2008 S08Y0168. IN THE MATTER OF ALICE CALDWELL STEWART. PER CURIAM. This disciplinary matter is befo...

  • State Bar of Arizona to move Tucson regional office

    State Bar of Arizona to move Tucson regional office

    Headline Legal News 03/06/2008

    The State Bar of Arizona is moving its southern regional office in Tucson. The new 5,300-square-foot office is at 270 N. Church Ave., next door to the Z Mansion. The increased space will allow the office to hold meetings and educational training to b...

  • Minnesota Bars Beat Smoking Ban

    Minnesota Bars Beat Smoking Ban

    Headline Legal News 03/06/2008

    All the world's a stage at some of Minnesota's bars. A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, enco...

  • NJ State pays $250K to settle lawsuit

    NJ State pays $250K to settle lawsuit

    Headline Legal News 03/05/2008

    The state quietly agreed to settle a little-known lawsuit that claimed Public Defender Yvonne Segars improperly fired a deputy for political reasons, three weeks before Gov. Jon S. Corzine announced plans to nominate Segars to be a Superior Court jud...

  • Legislators get bar's ear on lawyer discipline

    Legislators get bar's ear on lawyer discipline

    Headline Legal News 03/05/2008

    Two House members pressing to take the power to regulate lawyers away from the State Supreme Court have won a meeting with an American Bar Association committee visiting Columbia.The committee is in town reviewing the state’s lawyer discipline system...

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