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Six Articles on Law Department Efficiency
Law department management guru Rees Morrison has bundled six of his articles on law department productivity into one tidy PDF package. Head over to his Law Department Management blog to download the package - it’s free! Law Department Management: An elegant set of recent articles on legal-department productivity ** Find an In-House Counsel Job @ [...

BREAKING NEWS: STATE DEPARTMENT CONFIRMS ILLEGAL SEARCH OF OBAMA PASSPORT FILE
NBC News is reporting this stunning development. The breach was at the Bureau of Consular Affairs, the same part of the State Department that handles visa processing. Three contract workers have been fired so far...

Starbucks to Switch to Free Wi-Fi, Sort Of
The good news: Starbucks is dropping its Wi-Fi partnership with T-Mobile, which charges $9.99 for 24 hours access, and switching to an AT&T plan that will give Starbucks card holders two hours free a day and AT&T broadband customers unlimited free access...

Reflections on Free Exercise: Revisiting Rourke v. Department of Correctional Services
This contribution to a symposium on religious liberty looks closely at a New York case that illustrates both the inadequacy of federal free exercise law and the importance of state constitutional law.

Perth Police Police Attack Free Speech, Raid Sunday Times Newspaper Office And Search Employees While Looking For Information On Source Of Leak To Newspaper
PERTH, AUSTRALIA - RIVAL media groups have joined together to condemn police raids on a Perth newspaper, describing it as an attack on free speech. The department of Premier Alan Carpenter, a former journalist, admitted today making a complaint that led to the raid by 16 officers on the Perth newsroom of News Ltd’s Sunday Times [...

British Churches and Borough Dispute Over Free Trash Pick-Up
In Britain, the Macclesfield Express reports on the controversy between local churches and the Macclesfield Borough Council over trash collection. The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says that its regulations require boroughs to provide free trash pick-up to places of worship...

Parody is a Protected Form of Speech
Targets of criticism seek to shut down Internet sites that poke fun

Driving Record Checks
Get your Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) from your State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Online

ValueClick
allegedly violated consumer protection laws by promising ‘free’ goods that where not actually free.

Murphy City, TX
$255,000 settlement in controversial pedophile news program case.

Newspaper Employees
Chinese Daily News must pay $5.19 million class action settlement for failing to pay overtime.

Oppenheimer ATM-Free New York Municipals
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

CIA
Department of Defense Sued by Veterans

Free Speech
Canterbury agrees to pay $60,000 settlement in civil rights lawsuit.