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- Client Sues Crowell Over Missing Escrow
- Ninth Circuit Faults Way 'Terrorist' Label Was Affixed to Al-Haramain
- Reward offered in car bombing of attorney
- No Cameras Allowed for Scalia Speech at Duquesne
- Credit Union Regulatory Agency Looks to Expand Lending Rules
- Doug Caddell on Foley & Lardner's Freedom of Computing
- Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Jonathan Turley
- George Rudoy on Legal Technology Consolidation
- Video: Robert Peck, Appellate Lawyer of the Week
- Federal Appeals Court Scrutinizes Health Care Law
- State Bar Admission Denied Over Missing Information on Law School Application
- Conahan Sentenced to 17.5 Years
- Excessive Billing, Limited Results in Easy Case Lead to Slashing of Fees
- Jones Says Dennis Accepted Her Apology After Heated "Shut Up" Exchange
- Did K&L Gates Jump the Gun in Silvercorp Defamation Suit?
- Obama Nominates L.A. Federal Judge for Ninth Circuit Slot
- Company Cited for Spoliation After Its Lawyers Fail To Impose Litigation Hold
- Renewing a Ritual, Solyndra Executives Take the Fifth in Person
- 19 Hours of Settlement Talks for Oracle, Google CEOs
- Rothstein bankruptcy trustee Herbert Stettin sues GOP operative
- State Agrees to Pay $5 Million to Settle Suits Over Death of Autistic Boy
- Copyright Suit Against Rapper 50 Cent Fails Under 'Scenes a Faire' Doctrine
- Desktop Encryption Moves to the Cloud
- Vidyo Targets Lawyers for Mobile Meetings
| Client Sues Crowell Over Missing Escrow | Top |
| Crowell & Moring was sued Friday for $5.5 million in missing real estate escrow money that a client says was improperly diverted by former firm associate Douglas R. Arntsen. The suit accuses the firm of negligence and breach of contract for failing to prevent the improper diversion of funds. | |
| Ninth Circuit Faults Way 'Terrorist' Label Was Affixed to Al-Haramain | Top |
| The 9th Circuit has ruled that the government violated the constitutional rights of an Islamic charity in how it blocked its funds and designated it as a terrorist group. But the panel rejected the argument that the government wasn't entitled to use classified information in designating groups as terrorist organizations. | |
| Reward offered in car bombing of attorney | Top |
| Attorney Erik Chappell was driving in Michigan when a bomb exploded in his Volvo, injuring him and his sons, ages 10 and 13. Chappell was discharged from the hospital the day after the incident. His sons remained there but were expected to recover. | |
| No Cameras Allowed for Scalia Speech at Duquesne | Top |
| Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia usually keeps cameras from recording his remarks and events. But extending the rule to the highly public celebration marking the centennial of Duquesne University School of Law and the justice's own 25 years on the Court seems to take the practice to a new level. | |
| Credit Union Regulatory Agency Looks to Expand Lending Rules | Top |
| Checking and saving accounts, mortgages and the like are the underlying base of the global economy. Now, the National Credit Union Administration is eying measures that it believes would hedge risks in the credit union sector and stimulate job growth in the overall economy. | |
| Doug Caddell on Foley & Lardner's Freedom of Computing | Top |
| Doug Caddell, CIO at Foley & Lardner, speaks with LTN staff reporter Evan Koblentz at ILTA about his firm's policy of giving lawyers the freedom to buy the technology they need -- instead of dictating choices. Freedom of computing, he says, allows firms to focus more on business issues and less on infrastructure. | |
| Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Jonathan Turley | Top |
| When Jonathan Turley is not teaching at George Washington University Law School or blogging, he is a litigator whose cases can never be described as boring. In this video interview with Tony Mauro, Turley discusses his high-profile case on Utah's anti-polygamy law. | |
| George Rudoy on Legal Technology Consolidation | Top |
| George Rudoy, of HSNO (formerly of Integrated Legal Technology), speaks with LTN's Editor-in-Chief Monica Bay about the end of isolated services in law firms. Rudoy discusses the centralization of legal technology in firms looking to modernize and meet budgets across the board. | |
| Video: Robert Peck, Appellate Lawyer of the Week | Top |
| Tony Mauro talks to Robert Peck, president of the Center for Constitutional Litigation. | |
| Federal Appeals Court Scrutinizes Health Care Law | Top |
| A top U.S. Justice Department lawyer on Friday defended the Obama administration's health care law, telling a panel of the D.C. Circuit that the minimum coverage provision of the Affordable Care Act, under attack in courts around the country, is a valid exercise of congressional authority. | |
| State Bar Admission Denied Over Missing Information on Law School Application | Top |
| Recent decisions by the Georgia Supreme Court denying two law school grads the right to take the state bar exam highlight the need to tell the whole truth -- and not just when applying for admission to the Bar. In each case, certificates of fitness to practice law were denied partly due to omissions on law school applications. | |
| Conahan Sentenced to 17.5 Years | Top |
| Before a packed courtroom Friday, former Luzerne County President Judge Michael T. Conahan was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison for his role in the Luzerne County, Pa., "kids for cash" judicial scandal. | |
| Excessive Billing, Limited Results in Easy Case Lead to Slashing of Fees | Top |
| Finding that an attorney spent excessive hours on a simple wage-and-hour case and achieved limited results, a New Jersey federal judge awarded only $10,710 of the nearly $27,000 sought. Among the figures questioned by the judge: 49.2 hours of claimed prep time for a four-hour arbitration. | |
| Jones Says Dennis Accepted Her Apology After Heated "Shut Up" Exchange | Top |
| The 5th Circuit typically is a collegial court, but during en banc arguments in a drug case last week, Chief Judge Edith Jones felt the need to tell Judge James Dennis to "shut up." She later apologized. | |
| Did K&L Gates Jump the Gun in Silvercorp Defamation Suit? | Top |
| Canadian mining company Silvercorp, China's largest primary silver producer, has filed a defamation suit against websites that allegedly published false reports accusing the company of engaging in a $1.3 billion accounting fraud. But did the company and its lawyers at K&L Gates jump the gun? | |
| Obama Nominates L.A. Federal Judge for Ninth Circuit Slot | Top |
| Just two years after naming Jacqueline Nguyen to the federal bench in Los Angeles, President Obama is seeking to elevate her to the 9th Circuit. The pick of a sitting federal judge is seen as a safe selection, after Senate Republicans in May blocked confirmation of Goodwin Liu. | |
| Company Cited for Spoliation After Its Lawyers Fail To Impose Litigation Hold | Top |
| A company that destroyed potential evidence after outside counsel failed to impose a litigation hold and left it to the company's nonlawyer CFO to sort out what was relevant has been slapped with spoliation sanctions. A federal judge found the company did not destroy records deliberately but was negligent in not preserving them. | |
| Renewing a Ritual, Solyndra Executives Take the Fifth in Person | Top |
| Lawyers for two Solyndra executives told a congressional committee they had advised their clients not to answer questions. But the committee's investigators decided to require the executives' physical appearance anyway -- a practice that has long been controversial. | |
| 19 Hours of Settlement Talks for Oracle, Google CEOs | Top |
| Oracle and Google's CEOs spent nearly 20 hours holed up in a federal courthouse last week with their lawyers and other top company executives for court-ordered settlement talks in a billion-dollar patent dispute over Java technology. And the pair may be required to go back for more. | |
| Rothstein bankruptcy trustee Herbert Stettin sues GOP operative | Top |
| The bankruptcy trustee for Scott Rothstein's defunct law firm has filed a lawsuit against former Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler partner and powerful Republican operative Roger Stone, as part of his efforts to recover funds for victims of Rothstein's $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. | |
| State Agrees to Pay $5 Million to Settle Suits Over Death of Autistic Boy | Top |
| A day after New York state agreed to pay $5 million to settle two suits over the death of an autistic boy who was killed by two aides at a state-run facility, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's administration acknowledged systemwide deficiencies in the way the state treats the disabled. | |
| Copyright Suit Against Rapper 50 Cent Fails Under 'Scenes a Faire' Doctrine | Top |
| Tales of young men from inner-city, single-parent families who get caught up in crime are so common as to be not copyrightable, a New Jersey federal judge has held in dismissing an infringement suit against recording artist 50 Cent. | |
| Desktop Encryption Moves to the Cloud | Top |
| Laplink has introduced PC Lock, an all-new utility that encrypts files on a computer or laptop, and even remotely protects computers if they're lost. For lawyers and other professionals handling sensitive data, encryption is an increasingly popular and necessary tool. Freelance writer Jason Krause looks at PC Lock to see just how safe it keeps your data. Visit Law Technology News | |
| Vidyo Targets Lawyers for Mobile Meetings | Top |
| Vidyo, a specialist in videoconferencing technology through mobile devices and public networks, is starting a new push into the legal industry. The company recently raised $22.5 million in venture capital and is hiring additional staff to target law firms. It differs from high-end options by having fewer requirements for special hardware.Visit Law Technology News | |
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