Legal News

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...

WABC-TV Report Shines Light On New Jersey Foreclosure Rescue Operator

Lilly Ledbetter, the convention address
(Note: Dan Schwartz anticipates the Ledbetter speech and examines pay issues and legislation at Walter Olson's other website, Overlawyered, here. The more light that shines, the better...

Over time, we all get a little thicker around the middle
For many of us, a Milky Way here and there contributes to midsection growth; it's not often, though, that the Milky Way itself finds its girth doubled in size. Via Slashdot, the University of Sydney reports:Astrophysicist Professor Bryan Gaensler led a team that has found that our galaxy - a flattened spiral about 100,000 light years across - is 12,000 light years thick, not the 6,000 light years that had been previously thought...

Such As
CAFC caprice is further confirmed in today's non-precedential Lawler v. Bradley. Bradley settled a patent infringement suit by Lawler by taking a license which was too complicated and unclear in its terms...

Cross-selling (Part 5 of 5)
In the new book Escaping the Price-Driven Sale, Tom Snyder and Kevin Kearns argue that changes in the economy are making cross-selling ?more and more compulsory? (p. 122). Although the book was written for sales professionals by two leaders from...

Kumho Tire
Recalls 36,292 Light Truck and All TerrainTires

Immigration Fees
Nationwide Class Action Gets Green Light

British Airways Lost-Luggage
Class-Action Gets Green Light

Security One
accused of selling faulty alarms

AT&T Mobility, Nokia
accused of selling a used cell phone as new

Petland
Faces Class Action for Selling Unhealthy Puppies