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Chicago Politics: Blago-Gate: The Tip of the Iceberg
I reported here that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has become entangled in a very high profile federal investigation for conpsiring to offer Barack Obama’s empty Senate seat as a bribe...

Fortune: The Role of Expert Opinions in the Tax Shelter Problem
In today's Fortune: Blowing the Whistle on Unethical Lawyers; Legal Professor William Simon Aims to Shame Colleagues Who Sell Their Opinions for the Right Price, by Roger Parloff: In a forthcoming Stanford Law Review article titled The Market for Bad...

High-profile developments in two high-profile cases
Because the MSM likely will cover these two (very different) criminal cases pretty well for the time being, I will be content here just to link to two stories covering today's developments in two high-profile cases: "Galleon billionaire Raj Rajaratnam...

Getting That Law Job is Not Enough Anymore
The legal employment market has even more insecurity associated with it, according to this article in Fortune. It appears that getting that law job in a down market doesn't make one set for life...

Guilty verdict in MySpace suicide case could chill Internet speech
A high-profile Internet legal case that just concluded here will have a chilling effect on users of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook if the verdict holds up on appeal, legal experts say...

Defense Verdict in JDS Uniphase Trial
There is probably no jury verdict more likely to strike fear in the hearts of board members and officers everywhere than a securities trial verdict. The amounts at stake are nearly always mind-boggling, the cases involve concepts not exactly familiar...

Pre-paid Leagal Services
What are Prepaid Legal Benefit Plans

Employee Lawsuits (An Introduction and Topic Overview)
How employers can cope with the siege of employee lawsuits

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Employee Lawsuits: Negligent Hiring and Retention
Employers must check references, criminal records, other background material.

Legal Forms
Business and Commercial Legal Forms

Best Law Movies
Greatest Legal Movies selected by ABA Journal

Legal Malpractice
legal malpractice lawsuits.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...

Darvocet
FDA Expert Panel Votes for Ban

Pull Vicodin, Percocet
Expert Panel Advises FDA

$1.5 Million Asbestos Mesothelioma Verdict Against Fisher Controls International
$1.5 Million Asbestos Mesothelioma Verdict

Hormone Replacement Therapy Lawsuits See Multi-Million Dollar Settlements
HRT Lawsuits Pharma Faces Multi Million Dollar Settlements