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$70 Million Against Morgan Stanley

Posted on October 25, 2010
Wall Street Women Win - $70 Million Against Morgan Stanley Its not every lawyer who can say they?ve changed a deeply embedded pattern of discrimination on Wall Street, but the law firm of Moody Warner, P.C., won that right ? and won it big ? for 2,700 women against the investment giant Morgan Stanley...

Home sales up in Sept. but more troubles ahead

Posted on October 25, 2010
Sales of previously occupied homes rose last month after the worst summer for the housing market in more than a decade. And fears over flawed foreclosure documents could keep buyers on the sidelines in the final months of the year.Sales grew 10 percent in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4...

Lawsuit claims Citizens wrongly awarded contracts

Posted on October 25, 2010
A class-action lawsuit contends that Citizens Property Insurance Corp. improperly awarded dozens of no-bid contracts worth more than $49 million.The lawsuit filed Thursday in Tallahassee seeks unspecified damages for the 1.2 million Citizens policyholders...

Marc D. Goldstein Joins Law Firm of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman

Posted on October 25, 2010
Marc D. Goldstein has joined the law firm of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, L.C., as an associate focusing his legal practice in the areas of Labor and Employment Law, and Government Relations. Mr. Goldstein earned a J.D. degree from Washington University School of Law in St...

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Protection request against anti-gay lawyer dropped

Posted on October 25, 2010
The University of Michigan's student government president has dropped a request for a personal protection order against a state lawyer who attacked him on an anti-gay blog. An official at the Washtenaw County Circuit Court in Ann Arbor says 21-year-old Chris Armstrong's lawyer filed a motion to drop the matter Monday, hours before a court hearing was scheduled...

Richard B. Thomas Promoted to Associate

Posted on October 22, 2010
Richard B. Thomas, a long-time patent engineer with Armstrong Teasdale LLP, has become an associate in the law firm?s Intellectual Property practice group. With Thomas? promotion, the firm expands its Intellectual Property group to 70 people. Much of Thomas? practice involves advising emerging and mature businesses on the development and leveraging of technology...

NVIDIA Class Action Shot Down

Posted on October 22, 2010
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has dismissed a class action suit against NVIDIA that accused the company of trying to hide its knowledge of defects in a line of graphics chips, in order to keep the stock price up.In a strongly-worded opinion, Judge Richard Seeborg said the plaintiffs did not establish that there was any evidence that the company knew that its chips were defective...

Mom Not Guilty for Throwing Kids Off Bridge

Posted on October 22, 2010
A mother who threw her two children from an overpass in Dallas then jumped off the 20-foot-high bridge has been found not guilty of attempted murder and injury to a child.A judge ruled Thursday that Khandi Busby is not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered her into a state mental institution...

Appeals court wrestles with Abramoff-related case

Posted on October 22, 2010
A federal appeals court is wrestling with whether the Bush administration's former top procurement official got a fair trial the second time around in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.On Friday, a Justice Department lawyer and an attorney for David Safavian (suh-FAY'-vee-uhn) underwent intense questioning by two of three judges hearing the former White House official's appeal...

Colo. pot grower plans guilty plea to drug charges

Posted on October 21, 2010
A Colorado pot grower who tried unsuccessfully to use state medical marijuana law in his defense on federal drug charges has said he now plans to plead guilty. Christopher Bartkowicz, of Highlands Ranch, was scheduled to change his plea on Thursday. Court spokesman Jeff Dorschner said Bartkowicz told the court he planned to plead guilty, though the plea change won't be final until the hearing...

Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer

Posted on October 21, 2010
If you have been charged with either a felony or misdemeanor, you need a proven criminal defense lawyer to inform you of your rights and fight to protect them in court. At The Law Office of Shahin Zamir, our attorneys have experience serving as advocates for our clients in criminal defense cases like yours...

Law firm gears up to defend U.S. bank foreclosures

Posted on October 21, 2010
A major law firm has formed a special task force aimed at defending lenders and mortgage loan servicers as legal challenges to questionable foreclosure practices mount.Global law firm K&L Gates LLP said on Tuesday it has assembled a team to help companies respond to allegations ranging from wrongful foreclosure to inadequate documentation and lack of standing to foreclose...

Attorney admits to stealing from Atlanta law firm

Posted on October 21, 2010
An Atlanta attorney has admitted to stealing more than $500,000 from his law firm.Michael Shaw, 37, of Mableton, is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 5 by U.S. District Judge Willis B. Hunt. Shaw faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in federal prison for the scheme...

3 plead not guilty to Calif. can recycling fraud

Posted on October 21, 2010
Three people charged with bilking the state's recycling program out of $7 million by importing cans from Arizona pleaded not guilty Wednesday. Howard Leveson, 68, the owner of Perris Valley Recycling, and two of his employees entered their pleas to a total of 18 counts including recycling fraud, grand theft and conspiracy, the Riverside Press-Enterprise said...

N.Y. changes rules for filing foreclosures

Posted on October 20, 2010
New York state courts will require lawyers in residential foreclosure actions to certify they have taken ?reasonable? steps to verify the accuracy of documents submitted to the court. The new rule, released in a statement by the New York state Unified Court System, is effective immediately...

Lawyer stole $500K from Greenberg Traurig

Posted on October 20, 2010
Metro Atlanta attorney Michael Shaw pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing more than $500,000 from Atlanta law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP.Shaw, a 37-year-old resident of Mableton, Ga., worked as an associate attorney at Greenberg Traurig, specializing in bankruptcy and commercial-foreclosure litigation...

Ex-Ohio sewer agency lawyer sentenced to 70 months

Posted on October 20, 2010
The former top attorney for the Cleveland area's sewage agency has been sentenced to five years, 10 months in prison for pursuing thousands of dollars in bribes.Sixty-4-year-old William Schatz admitted shaking down a contractor for more than $682,000 and diverting about $167,000 in agency checks to his accounts...

UK court rules in favor of heiress on prenup deals

Posted on October 20, 2010
Britain's Supreme Court Wednesday ruled in favor of a German heiress seeking to protect her considerable fortune from her ex-husband ? a decision that gives new strength to prenuptial agreements in England.The ruling marks a potential turning point in the legal battle over prenuptial agreements in England, where courts have generally refused to recognize them as valid, binding agreements...

Lawsuit filed in Utah tour bus crash

Posted on October 20, 2010
The driver of a van and a tour operator have been sued over a crash in Utah that killed three Japanese tourists and injured 11 others.The Salt Lake Tribune says the lawsuit filed Friday in federal court claims passenger Kei Maeda has suffered incomplete quadriplegia since the Aug...

IP Attorney Donald R. Holland Launches Website for Patent Case

Posted on October 19, 2010
Patent attorney Donald R. Holland, Ph.D., of the law firm Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, L.C., has created a new website that focuses on patent case analysis and analysis of patent practice. The new website, called Patent Vigilance, is at the Internet address http://patentvigilance...

Obama and Democrats count on Senate wins out West

Posted on October 19, 2010
President Barack Obama heads to California and Washington state this week to drum up support for endangered incumbents Barbara Boxer and Patty Murray in the last days of a campaign that finds his Democrats playing defense around the country.Wins in those two Democratic-leaning states -- most polls show Boxer and Murray with slight leads -- likely would be enough to ensure Democrats retain narrow control of the Senate even if Republicans sweep the other competitive races...

Int'l court rejects ex-Congo VP war crimes appeal

Posted on October 19, 2010
An appeals panel at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday rejected former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's bid to have rape, murder and pillage charges against him dismissed.Bemba is accused of commanding a militia responsible for atrocities in the neighboring Central African Republic in 2002-2003...

Special Agent Retaliated Against After Witnessing and Reporting Harassment

Posted on October 18, 2010
It?s yet another of case of discrimination within the United States Capitol Police (USCP). This time, the victim is a female Special Agent assigned to protect one the nation?s most powerful politicians. Special Agent Luanne Moran, who was assigned to the USCP?s Dignitary Protection Division (DPD) for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has filed a sex discrimination and retaliation complaint that is now pending in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Moran v...

FIVE ATTORNEYS AT GALLOP, JOHNSON & NEUMAN SELECTED AMONG ?SUPER LAWYERS �?

Posted on October 18, 2010
Four attorneys at law firm of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, L.C., have been selected as ?Super Lawyers�? and one has been named a ?Rising Star? in a peer nomination and research process conducted by ?Super Lawyers,? a publication of Thompson Reuters. (www...

Legal association to Host ?Justice Jog? 5K for Charity

Posted on October 18, 2010
An expected 500+ participants will gather for the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators Justice Jog 5K on Sunday, October 17, 2010. Law Firm teams will compete for the title of ?fastest? law firm in the Los Angeles area...

Hospital lawyers fire back in class action lawsuit

Posted on October 18, 2010
Taking a final shot before meeting in court, lawyers for Greenwich Hospital are rejecting a claim that the hospital violated fair trade policies in their handling of a drug-addicted surgeon.Earlier this year, the hospital asked a judge to strike the central claims of lawsuit, arguing that the class action lawsuit does not make a "cognizable claim" under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act...

Court will hear appeal of ex-AG to stop lawsuit

Posted on October 18, 2010
The Supreme Court will consider an appeal by former Attorney General John Ashcroft to throw out a lawsuit seeking to hold him personally responsible for improperly arresting a Muslim U.S. citizen after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.The justices on Monday stepped into a dispute that, at its roots, concerns the Bush administration's aggressive moves against Muslims and Arabs in the United States following the attacks of Sept...

Judge clears AG subpoena of Stern firm

Posted on October 15, 2010
Broward Circuit Judge Eileen O'Connor cleared the way Thursday for a state attorney general's office subpoena to obtain foreclosure records from the Law Offices of David J. Stern in Plantation, which has filed foreclosures with the courts by the thousands for the nation's biggest lenders...

Colleagues: Judge in gay court case not 'activist'

Posted on October 15, 2010
The federal judge who halted the military's ban on openly gay troops is known for working at court well past closing time, typing her own court orders and doting on two terriers who themselves are no strangers to the halls of justice.U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips won praise from gays and was derided by critics as an activist judge when she issued an injunction Tuesday ending the 17-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy, saying it violates due process rights, freedom of speech and the right to petition the government for redress of grievances guaranteed by the First Amendment...

Lawyer: Texas arson case prosecutor shows bias

Posted on October 15, 2010
An Innocence Project attorney is questioning the impartiality of the prosecutor leading a Texas science panel's probe of an arson investigation that led to the execution of a Texas man.Stephen Saloom of the Innocence Project said Friday at a panel meeting in Austin that prosecutor John Bradley shows "a lack of objectivity" in the Cameron Todd Willingham case...

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