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Texas man sentenced to life in prison for 9th DUI

Posted on August 17, 2010
A 52-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison in Texas after receiving his ninth DUI. On July 3rd police say Bobby Stovall crossed several lanes of heavy traffic and was struck by a car, injuring a woman. Police dash cam video shows Stovall trying to walk a straight line, stumbling in the process...

Paralegal, husband indicted in $1 million law-firm embezzlement

Posted on August 17, 2010
A paralegal and her husband have been indicted on suspicion of embezzling more than $1 million from the law firm where she worked.The suspects are Rosanne and Michael Stogner. A grand jury indicted them this month in a series of thefts from Oaxaca, Bernal & Associates between March 2001 and May 2007...

Legal Talk Show, Lawyer Websites - William Lerach

Posted on August 17, 2010
For more than 20 years, William S. Lerach was the most feared lawyer in America. He and his former firm, Milberg Weiss, were Jedi masters of security law, targeting Fortune 500 companies for corporate fraud and recovering a staggering $45 billion in judgments...

Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer - Shahin Zamir

Posted on August 10, 2010
Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer If you have been charged with either a felony or misdemeanor, you need a proven 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...

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BP Deposits $3 Billion in Spill Fund

Posted on August 09, 2010
BP PLC said Monday that it has made an initial deposit of $3 billion into a $20 billion spill-recovery fund. BP said it was making the deposit earlier than the originally scheduled Sept. 30 deadline to show its commitment to restoring the livelihoods of people affected by the worst offshore oil spill in history...

Children in Dependency Proceedings Need Lawyers

Posted on August 09, 2010
Lawyers who represent children in dependency proceedings say it?s time for these children ? regardless of which state they live ? to have a right to legal counsel.Meeting yesterday at the 2010 American Bar Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, a panel of children?s rights advocates discussed eliminating the barriers that prevent lawyers from representing these children in life-impacting legal proceedings...

ABA's Incoming President to Appoint Boies-Olson Team

Posted on August 09, 2010
Miami lawyer Stephen N. Zack, incoming president of the American Bar Association for the 2010-11 bar year, will announce Monday, Aug. 9, that lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies will co-chair a new ABA task force on the preservation of the justice system...

US Supreme Court asked to halt Guantanamo trial

Posted on August 03, 2010
A military defense lawyer said Monday that he has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the upcoming war crimes trial of the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay.The trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 10 for Omar Khadr and it would be the first at the U.S...

Groups seek judge's removal from drilling case

Posted on August 03, 2010
Several environmental groups have asked a federal appeals court to disqualify a judge from a lawsuit over the Obama administration's initial six-month moratorium on deep-water oil drilling.U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman overturned the temporary drilling ban in June and refused last month to withdraw from the case...

Calif. high court upholds affirmative action ban

Posted on August 03, 2010
California's high court on Monday upheld the state's 14-year-old law barring preferential treatment of women and minorities in public school admissions, government hiring and contracting.In a 6-1 ruling, the state Supreme Court rejected arguments from the city of San Francisco and Attorney General Jerry Brown that the law, known as Proposition 209, violates federal equality protections...

N.J. gay-marriage case must begin in lower court

Posted on July 27, 2010
The push for gay marriage in New Jersey suffered a setback Monday when the state Supreme Court said six gay couples who claim New Jersey has denied them the rights granted to married heterosexual couples must argue their case through the lower courts...

Local govts can hire lawyers in lead paint suits

Posted on July 27, 2010
The California Supreme Court has ruled cities and counties suing companies for lead paint cleanup costs can hire private lawyers and offer them?with limitations?a financial stake in the outcome. Monday's unanimous decision scales back its 1985 ruling that said an arrangement for a lawyer to collect a share of damages instead of an hourly fee would create a conflict of interest...

Jury finds Texas man guilty of beheading children

Posted on July 27, 2010
A South Texas man accused of beheading his common-law wife's three children was found guilty of capital murder Monday at his second trial.A state appeals court had overturned John Allen Rubio's previous conviction and death sentence in 2007, saying the children's mother had wrongly been allowed to testify...

Cases lining up to challenge Ariz. immigration law

Posted on July 22, 2010
A federal judge is holding hearings on a parade of legal challenges to Arizona's immigration enforcement law, but resolving the seven cases filed so far could keep the court busy for years.Two of the cases were set to go before U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton on Thursday...

Seton Hall ex-coach Gonzalez pleads not guilty

Posted on July 22, 2010
Former Seton Hall basketball coach Bobby Gonzalez pleaded not guilty Wednesday to shoplifting a satchel at an upscale shopping mall last month. Gonzalez spoke during the five-minute arraignment only to verify his address in Harrison, N.Y. His attorney, Anna Cominsky, entered the plea on his behalf...

'South Park' critic in Va. court on terror charge

Posted on July 22, 2010
A Virginia man who once threatened the creators of "South Park" will spend at least one more day in jail on separate charges of trying to join a Somali terror group linked to al-Qaida. Twenty-year-old Zachary Chesser of Oakton, Va., made an initial appearance Thursday in U...

NH lawyer out $240,000 in scam targeting attorneys

Posted on July 19, 2010
A New Hampshire lawyer is out $240,000 after falling prey to an international Internet scam, prosecutors said. The attorney general's office declined to identify the lawyer but said he is one of two lawyers in the state who were targeted in recent weeks by scam artists who used Internet messages, fake companies and counterfeit checks to "retain" them...

Lohan to comply with sentence, says lawyer

Posted on July 19, 2010
Lindsay Lohan is set to begin serving a 90-day jail sentence on Tuesday and the troubled young actress will follow through, her new lawyer pledged on the weekend. Noted attorney Robert Shapiro, best known as a member of the so-called legal "dream team" that represented O...

Menlo Park firefighters union says it tried to avoid lawsuit

Posted on July 19, 2010
The president of the Menlo Park Firefighters' Association said Friday the organization tried to avoid suing for overtime pay, but felt it had no choice after negotiations stalled. The federal labor lawsuit filed Thursday against the Menlo Park Fire Protection District alleges the agency has refused to compensate firefighters for the time they spend before their shifts driving to one station to pick up equipment and then driving to a second station where they are assigned to work...

Self Representation Hurting Individual Cases, Courts, Say Judges

Posted on July 12, 2010
In a survey released today by the American Bar Association, judges indicated that a lack of representation in civil matters is hurting those individuals? cases, and is negatively impacting courtrooms. Approximately 1,000 state trial judges responded to the survey, which posed questions about their dockets, self-representation and the impact on the courts...

Chicago's tough new gun ordinance goes into effect

Posted on July 12, 2010
A new gun ordinance in Chicago that officials say is the strictest of its kind in the country went into effect on Monday.The ordinance was pushed through quickly by Mayor Richard Daley and the City Council after the U.S. Supreme Court last month made the city's 28-year-old handgun ban unenforceable...

Divorce lawyers: Facebook tops in online evidence

Posted on July 11, 2010
Forgot to de-friend your wife on Facebook while posting vacation shots of your mistress? Her divorce lawyer will be thrilled.Oversharing on social networks has led to an overabundance of evidence in divorce cases. The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers says 81 percent of its members have used or faced evidence plucked from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other social networking sites, including YouTube and LinkedIn, over the last five years...

Miller & O'Neill Law Firm Launches New Website

Posted on June 28, 2010
Miller & O?Neill, an Estate Planning and Trust Administration law firm serving the Boca Raton and surrounding South Florida areas has launched a new website for clients. Miller and O?Neill, Attorneys at Law announces the launch of their newly revised website...

Leading UK law firm goes under

Posted on June 28, 2010
Halliwells of Manchester has become the first big UK legal practice to fall victim to the financial crisis and could become the biggest ever to go out of business, says a report in The Times. Halliwells, which had turnover of �78m last year, is to be dissolved...

Lamb Mcerlane Names New Partner Of Law Firm

Posted on June 28, 2010
Lamb McErlane PC, a full service law firm that has built a reputation on delivering the highest caliber of legal service in an environment focused on personal attention and results, has named Thomas P. Hogan as a partner at the firm. Hogan previously joined the firm after working as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania as well as an Assistant District Attorney in Chester County...

Firm eyes suit claiming BP 401(k) plan broke law

Posted on June 24, 2010
A law firm known for shareholder lawsuits on Wednesday said it is investigating whether the agents who ran BP PLC's employee savings plan violated federal law by buying BP stock. New York-based Milberg LLP, which has sued dozens of companies on behalf of investors in many prominent companies, including scandal-plagued Enron, Worldcom and Tyco, said it is looking into whether the fiduciaries of the BP Employee Savings Plan may have violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by buying and holding on to the oil company's shares "when it was imprudent to do so...

Ex-college police chief pleads guilty in bribery

Posted on June 24, 2010
A former police chief at a Southern California college has pleaded guilty to felony counts, including bribery and perjury, as part of a plea deal designed to avoid a prison sentence. Kevin Segawa, who was police chief for Mt. San Jacinto Community College in Riverside Countyfor about four years before his resignation last year, entered guilty pleas Wednesday to eight felonies and two misdemeanors...

High court to review mental health advocacy suit

Posted on June 21, 2010
The Supreme Court says it will decide whether Virginia's advocate for the mentally ill can force state officials to provide records relating to deaths and injuries at state mental health facilities.The justices agreed Monday to review a federal appeals court ruling dismissing the state advocate's lawsuit against Virginia's mental health commissioner and two other officials...

High court upholds anti-terror law

Posted on June 21, 2010
The Supreme Court has upheld a federal law that bars "material support" to foreign terrorist organizations, rejecting a free speech challenge from humanitarian aid groups.The court ruled 6-3 Monday that the government may prohibit all forms of aid to designated terrorist groups, even if the support consists of training and advice about entirely peaceful and legal activities...

Hyland Levin: New law firm, new offices

Posted on June 21, 2010
Hyland Levin, a law firm that was created by breaking off from Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll?s Voorhees, N.J., office, is scheduled to move at the end of August into its new offices at 6000 Sagemore Drive in Marlton, N.J. The firm signed a 10-year deal on 16,440 square feet on the third floor of the building, giving it fresh space for the relatively new firm...

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