Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines
By David Badertscher, PLL
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<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>NLJ.Com, </em>February 11, 2009.</font></p>
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Baseball insider says A-Rod has little to worry about</a></b></font><br/><font size="2"><font color="#333333">"Clark C. Griffith, an attorney in Minneapolis who was a part owner of the Minnesota Twins Baseball Club and a former member of the Major League Baseball's player relations committee, says that Alex Rodriguez's admission of steroid use could have little effect on the criminal investigation, or his contract with the Yankees. "</font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- February 11, 2009 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://editorial.incisivemedia.com/c/1VKiosgRWb4KczM" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY
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Court denies Texas billionaire's request for documents in kickback case against Milberg </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"A federal judge in Los Angeles has refused to grant what prosecutors claim was an 'unprecedented' request by Texas billionaire Sam Wyly to obtain protected documents in the government's criminal kickback case against Milberg LLP." </font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- February 11, 2009 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://editorial.incisivemedia.com/c/1VKjzka9uqSAV7D" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY
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Sharp 10-year rise in prison time for federal offenders, but alternative sentencing takes a dive </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"The rate at which federal offenders are being sentenced to prison time has increased by 10 percentage points in the past 10 years
from 75.4% to 85.3% since fiscal year 1997
while the use of alternative sentences, such as probation and probation with confinement, has decreased over the same period."</font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- February 11, 2009 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://editorial.incisivemedia.com/c/1Wc5oJrTTRNhv4Y" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY
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Ex-Illinois governor angling to rehire defense attorney </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was impeached and convicted last month by his state's legislature after federal prosecutors charged him with political corruption, is angling to rehire a top Chicago criminal defense attorney for his legal team." </font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- February 11, 2009 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://editorial.incisivemedia.com/c/1Wc6zBlbs7B8dCP" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY
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1st Circuit: Bad business decisions don't necessarily constitute shareholder fraud</a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"In a decision of first impression for the circuit, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an employee's lawsuit about a financially inefficient corporate process did not qualify for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002's whistleblower protection provisions." </font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- February 11, 2009 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://editorial.incisivemedia.com/c/1Wc7Ktet0noYWaG" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY
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Half of Bay State lawyers expect to make less this year </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"Nearly 79% of Massachusetts Bar Association members who responded to an online survey believe the economic downturn will affect the entire legal profession, and about 49% expect to earn less this year than last year." </font><br/><br/><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- February 11, 2009 --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://editorial.incisivemedia.com/c/1Wc8Vl7KyDcPEIx" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY
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St. Louis attorneys use novel tactic to obtain parole for women serving life sentences </a></b></font><br/></font><font color="#333333" size="2"><font size="2">"Lawyers at Bryan Cave and St. Louis University School of Law have petitioned a court to intervene in the first case to address a novel Missouri statute that allows women serving life sentences for murder to submit evidence of domestic violence in order to obtain parole."</font></font><br/></p>
