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China to frame its first immigration law to attract foreigners
Posted on May 24, 2010China has kick-started a key process to frame its first immigration law to better manage immigrants as the world's fastest economy seeks to attract more foreigners to boost its development. Experts on migration have advised the government to learn from other countries in regulating immigration, said Zhang Jijiao, researcher with the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology under the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)...
As immigration fades, Emanuel role under scrutiny
Posted on May 24, 2010Prospects for an immigration overhaul are fizzling this year and some Democratic lawmakers are focusing blame on the pugnacious Democratic operative who works just down the hall from President Obama.Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff and longtime party strategist, has argued privately that it's a bad time for Democrats to push an immigration bill, a potential landmine in the midst of a crucial mid-term election...
Eugene, Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyer
Posted on May 24, 2010Max Mizejewski received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993. In 1997, Max graduated from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College and went on to work in the public sector before entering private practice...
Starbucks Sued over "Unreasonably" Hot Tea
Posted on May 17, 2010Starbucks Corp has been sued by a customer who allegedly suffered second-degree burns after being served tea that was too hot.According to the complaint, the plaintiff Zeynep Inanli was served tea that was "unreasonably hot, in containers which were not safe," at a Starbucks store at 685 Third Avenue in Manhattan...
Spain clears way for super-judge's trial
Posted on May 17, 2010Spain's Supreme Court has removed the last potential obstacle to putting on trial the crusading judge who indicted Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden.Judge Baltasar Garzon, who became world famous with cross-border justice cases, faces charges of knowingly overstepping his jurisdiction by launching a probe of Spanish Civil War atrocities that were covered by an amnesty...
Vatican details US sex abuse defense
Posted on May 17, 2010The Vatican on Monday will make its most detailed defense yet against claims that it is liable for U.S. bishops who allowed priests to molest children, saying bishops are not its employees and that a 1962 Vatican document did not require them to keep quiet, The Associated Press has learned...
Trial for Chandra Levy slaying suspect stays in DC
Posted on May 17, 2010A judge has decided to keep the trial of a man charged in the killing of federal intern Chandra Levy in the District of Columbia.Attorneys for 28-year-old Ingmar Guandique (gwan-DEE'-kay) had argued he would not get a fair trial in Washington because of the extensive publicity...
WilmerHale moving support staff to Ohio
Posted on May 03, 2010WilmerHale announced last week it was relocating its administrative support base to a new campus in Dayton, Ohio, as it seeks to streamline internal business operations across its many offices. When the business services center opens in September, it will house the majority of the firm's technical support, finance, document services, new business clearance and human resources staff...
Goldman Sachs has mounting legal woes
Posted on May 03, 2010Goldman Sachs' legal headaches don't start and end with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Reports surfaced late Thursday that federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Goldman and its employees, over whether it may have committed securities fraud in its mortgage trading operations...
Court won't hear appeal on Boy Scouts land rental
Posted on May 03, 2010The Supreme Court will let stand a ruling saying the Boy Scouts cannot lease city-owned parkland in San Diego.The court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from San Diego-area Boy Scouts who have traditionally leased Balboa Park camp space.Federal judges have said the Scouts are a religious organization and the lease violated federal law that prohibits the government promotion of religion...
Ex-SEC lawyer gets 8 years for pump-and-dump fraud
Posted on April 28, 2010A former enforcement attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison for his role in a a series of multimillion dollar pump-and-dump stock fraud schemes.Dallas-based attorney Phillip Offill Jr., 51, was convicted by a jury earlier this year on 10 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy...
Howrey law firm shifts pay, development of entry-level attorneys
Posted on April 28, 2010When the Howrey law firm called its incoming associates into a conference room last June to announce it was breaking from industry custom and changing the role of its entry-level attorneys, there was a fair amount of apprehension. After all, the news came at a time when the economic downturn was forcing other firms to cut salaries or tell associates to delay their start...
Enron law firm sues Goldman Sachs
Posted on April 27, 2010The law firm that won Enron investors $7.2 billion in what was one of the largest class action suits in the history of securities law filed charges against Goldman Sachs on Monday.Robbins Geller Rudman and Dowd filed the lawsuit in U.S. district court in Manhattan, aiming to recover investors' losses stemming from the fraud charges issued earlier this month by the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Clinton: Look beyond judges for high court pick
Posted on April 19, 2010Bill Clinton says someone who hasn't been a judge should be considered for the Supreme Court. But scratch the idea of the ex-president or his wife as a justice.Clinton suggested that President Barack Obama follow a model that Clinton used when he tried unsuccessfully to persuade then-New York Gov...
Poll: 4 out of 5 Americans don't trust Washington
Posted on April 19, 2010America's "Great Compromiser" Henry Clay called government "the great trust," but most Americans today have little faith in Washington's ability to deal with the nation's problems.Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a half century, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center...
NY judge prefers open records in Sept. 11 cases
Posted on April 18, 2010A federal judge who rejected a Sept. 11 health settlement says he would prefer more open records in litigation stemming from the World Trade Center attack and might consider unsealing all records.Judge Alvin Hellerstein commented Thursday after hearing lawyers argue whether a settlement related to claims of property damages resulting from the terrorist attacks should be public...
SHEPPARD MULLIN RE-ELECTS CHAIRMAN GUY HALGREN
Posted on April 16, 2010Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that the firm's chairman of the executive committee, Guy N. Halgren, has been re-elected to a fourth consecutive, three-year term leading the firm. Halgren was first elected to this management role in 2001...
NY immigration agent pleads guilty to sex coercion
Posted on April 16, 2010A federal immigration officer who was recorded demanding sex from a woman in exchange for a green card has pleaded guilty.Isaac Baichu pleaded guilty to all the charges against him Wednesday in Queens. The 48-year-old is expected to receive a prison sentence of 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 years...
Miami-Dade clinic operator pleads guilty to Medicare fraud
Posted on April 12, 2010Ihosvany Marquez spent his Medicare millions on a fleet of luxury cars, authorities say, including a Lamborghini Murcielago with spaceship-like doors that cost $455,959.Early Monday, he pleaded guilty in Miami federal court to healthcare fraud charges alleging he submitted $55 million in false Medicare claims for HIV and cancer services at his seven Miami-Dade and Orlando clinics...
Ex-NJ lawmaker pleads guilty in child porn case
Posted on April 12, 2010A former New Jersey lawmaker who championed legislation fighting child pornography pleaded guilty Monday to distributing nude images of underage girls.Neil Cohen, 59, acknowledged viewing and printing images meant for sexual gratification from a computer in his former legislative office...
The Wrongful Conviction Of Ted White Jr.
Posted on April 11, 2010On April 10, 1998, Ted White, Jr. was charged with 13 felony criminal counts ranging from rape, child molestation, sodomy, and accused of ?deviate sexual intercourse? with his12-year-old (step) daughter. In 1999, he was convicted in a Missouri courtroom by a prosecutor who withheld important exculpatory evidence, which would have proved Ted?s innocence! Ted then spent the next 5 years at the Missouri State Penitentiary, incarcerated at the infamous ?Walls Prison? in Jefferson City, Missouri, which TIME Magazine called the ?bloodiest 47 acres in America...
Asbestos Illnesses ? Alcoa's Defeat
Posted on March 24, 2010The Tennessee Supreme Court has issued a ?huge victory? for workers nationwide, especially for victims of mesothelioma lung cancer and other asbestos-related diseases, in a ruling saying a corporation, Alcoa, ?has a full duty to prevent its employees from going home at the end of the workday in clothes that are contaminated with asbestos fibers...
SAN DIEGO IMMIGRATION LAW FIRM
Posted on March 24, 2010PROVIDING EXCEPTIONAL LEGAL SERVICES TO IMMIGRANTS The Law Offices of McHenry & Associates is a San Diego based Immigration Law Firm dedicated to offering exceptional legal services in all matters related to U.S. Immigration Law. Immigration Law can be highly complex and is ever-changing...
Eugene, Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyer
Posted on March 11, 2010Max Mizejewski received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993. In 1997, Max graduated from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College and went on to work in the public sector before entering private practice...
Bryan A. Lowe & Associates - Las Vegas Tax Law
Posted on March 11, 2010Founded in 1982, Bryan A Lowe & Associates is a law firm based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The firm provides a wide range of services, primarily in the areas of estate planning, probate, bankruptcy, general business (corporate, partnership, and proprietorship), taxation, real estate, asset protection, and elder care...
The Law Offices of Steven M. Simrin - Bay Area Probate Attorney
Posted on March 03, 2010IRS Tax RepresentationCalifornia State and Local Tax RepresentationProbateTrust AdministrationTrust LitigationConservatorships Steven M. Simrin has more than 12 years experience as both an attorney and a certified public accountant advising clients on tax, probate, trusts, and conservatorships...
Supreme Court scrutinizes state, local gun control
Posted on February 27, 2010Gun control advocates are hoping they can win by losing when the Supreme Court rules on state and local regulation of firearms.The justices will be deciding whether the right to possess guns guaranteed by the Second Amendment ? like much of the rest of the Bill of Rights ? applies to states as well as the federal government...
Lawyer & Law Firm Website Design News
Posted on February 27, 2010Law Promo is a specialized web design and internet marketing agency that has been providing the legal community with website services since 2004. In that time, we have helped over two hundred and sixty clients to establish themselves online and expand their businesses through internet marketing...
Oklahoma City hires private law firm for union talks
Posted on February 25, 2010Oklahoma City Council members hired a private law firm Tuesday to lead upcoming contract negotiations with the city?s police and firefighter unions. The firm, McAfee and Taft, was hired in part because negotiations with the unions have gone poorly in recent years...
Obama nominates Berkeley prof to appeals court
Posted on February 25, 2010Goodwin Liu, 39, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, learned English in kindergarten and later became an honors graduate at Stanford and a Rhodes Scholar. He has taught at Berkeley since 2003 and was named associate dean of the law school in 2008.He also worked as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and as a special assistant to the deputy secretary of the U...
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Did I harass someone?
Oh, yes. This can be taken in as so many things, especially since you had testif...
How to evict a roommate?
First, in most jurisdictions "self-help" is not a remedy available to any party ...
I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...
This has happened 3 or 4 times a month now- they have turned the electric off 2 days consecutively, the water off about 9 or 10 times now, and our heat has broken 5 times (once it would not shut off, and we were forced t
i say stick with the apartment. eventually, everything possible will be replaced...
The company I worked for forced me to quit instead of dealing with someone harassing me, what can I do?
Look up CONSTRUCTIVE DISCHARGE...................this looks like what happened t...

Did I harass someone?
Oh, yes. This can be taken in as so many things, especially since you had testif...
How to evict a roommate?
First, in most jurisdictions "self-help" is not a remedy available to any party ...
I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...
This has happened 3 or 4 times a month now- they have turned the electric off 2 days consecutively, the water off about 9 or 10 times now, and our heat has broken 5 times (once it would not shut off, and we were forced t
i say stick with the apartment. eventually, everything possible will be replaced...
The company I worked for forced me to quit instead of dealing with someone harassing me, what can I do?
Look up CONSTRUCTIVE DISCHARGE...................this looks like what happened t...








