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Failed mobile phone dealer ran law firm, say staff

Posted on February 22, 2010
The former owner of two failed companies was the person in ?de facto? charge of Cheadle-based law firm Wolstenholmes prior to its collapse in December, Crain's has discovered.Ex-staff who spoke on condition of anonymity said that Wasim Saddique, who was brought in by former managing partner Nasser Ilyas as consultant to advise the firm, was effectively running it...

State won't pay legal fees for computer lawsuit

Posted on February 22, 2010
The state Finance Department has refused to pay the legal fees of a Montgomery law firm that was hired by a legislative oversight committee to stop the state from proceeding with an unbid $13 million computer contract.State Comptroller Thomas White has written to House Clerk Greg Pappas saying the committee didn't have the authority to hire the firm of Thomas, Means, Gillis & Seay...

Law Firm SEO by Law Promo - See Results, Get Clients

Posted on February 16, 2010
Search engine marketing is a huge factor for lawyer and law firm websites these days, and Law Promo utilizes the latest and greatest methods to ensure your law firm?s website is high on the search engine results lists. Marketing your law firm website through search engine optimization (SEO) is just as important as the way your website looks and functions...

The Sharon Boxie Louisiana Injustice Story

Posted on February 16, 2010
http://www.insiderexclusive.com/component/content/article/1-shows/106-the-sharon-boxie-louisiana-injustice-story-nelson-a-hammons- Every day, somewhere in America, more than 300 innocent men, women and children become victims of medical malpractice at the hands of incompetent and negligent doctors, maybe just like your own family doctor, and end up either dead or permanently injured...

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UBS Lawyer Schmid Takes Job at Swiss Law Firm

Posted on February 09, 2010
Bernhard Schmid, the head of UBS AG?s legal department, left Switzerland?s biggest bank by assets to become a partner at a Zurich law firm founded by a former banker.Schmid joined Kuoni Attorneys at Law on Feb. 1 to help the company increase its work advising banks, founding partner Wolfram Kuoni said by telephone yesterday...

New SEC-Bank of America settlement proposal faulted

Posted on February 09, 2010
A federal judge who rejected the government's first bid to settle civil charges against Bank of America Corp. showed little enthusiasm Monday for a new proposed settlement.U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff sharply questioned the merits of the latest proposal, which calls for the company to pay $150 million to resolve allegations that it lied to shareholders at the height of the financial crisis about its pending acquisition of brokerage Merrill Lynch...

Bryan A. Lowe & Associates - Las Vegas Bankruptcy

Posted on January 31, 2010
The firm was founded on a philosophy of service that not only emphasizes quality representation in terms of experience and expertise - but places a high value on initiating appropriate actions to meet the client's legal needs and objectives. Particular stress is also placed on providing individualized service and achieving results...

WaMu shareholders get their voice in bankruptcy

Posted on January 30, 2010
Shareholders of Washington Mutual Inc will have a voice in the company's bankruptcy after a judge refused on Thursday to disband their committee, which Washington Mutual said would complicate the case.The U.S. Trustee, who plays an oversight role in bankruptcy, appointed the committee earlier this month after being petitioned by 3,500 shareholders...

Samsung to pay Rambus $700 million in settlement

Posted on January 20, 2010
Samsung Electronics will pay Rambus Inc. $700 million over five years, and invest another $200 million in the chip design company as part of a settlement ending their legal disputes, the two companies said Tuesday. Samsung will make an upfront payment of $200 million, and a quarterly payment of about $25 million for the next five years as part of the agreement, the companies said...

Woman with .708 blood-alcohol level pleads guilty

Posted on January 20, 2010
A South Dakota woman who prosecutors say had a blood-alcohol level almost nine times the legal driving limit has pleaded guilty to two drunken driving charges. Authorities said 45-year-old Marguerite Engle was arrested Dec. 1 when she was found passed out behind the wheel of a stolen delivery van along Interstate 90, with a blood alcohol level at 0...

Former FTC Chairwoman Named Top P&G Legal Officer

Posted on January 20, 2010
A former Federal Trade Commission chairwoman will become the chief legal officer at Procter & Gamble Co.The consumer products maker says Deborah Platt Majoras, who joined P&G two years ago, will succeed Steven Jemison on Feb. 1.P&G says the 58-year-old Jemison will retire Sept...

NM Supreme Court orders arrest records expunged

Posted on January 06, 2010
The New Mexico Supreme Court has unanimously ordered arrest records expunged for 32 people who were jailed overnight because a state judge said they were screaming during a hearing for a convicted rapist.Chief Justice Edward Chavez said Tuesday that the court will publish a formal opinion on the case of state District Judge Sam Sanchez, stressing that judges should know it's important to distinguish between crowd control and contempt proceedings...

Appellate court overturns Kickapoo conviction

Posted on January 06, 2010
A federal appellate court has overturned the conviction of a former tribal casino manager and his family for allegedly stealing from a tribal casino near the Texas-Mexico border. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans overturned the embezzlement convictions of Isidro Garza Jr...

UW Madison's patenting arm wins lawsuit

Posted on January 05, 2010
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's patenting arm has won an appeal in federal court against Canadian drug company Xenon. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in favor of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The lawsuit dealt with how Xenon handled patent rights to an enzyme that can lower cholesterol levels in the human body...

NYC victim's mom: EMTs were 'inhuman' not to help

Posted on December 29, 2009
Two emergency medical technicians accused of refusing to help a dying pregnant woman are "inhuman," her mother said Tuesday as a lawyer for the EMTs argued his clients are being vilified in a rush to judgment.Cynthia Rennix, the mother of 25-year-old Eutisha Revee Rennix, told The Associated Press that the EMTs shouldn't have taken the jobs if they weren't willing to get involved...

Hedge fund operator Rajaratnam pleads not guilty

Posted on December 29, 2009
Wealthy hedge fund operator Raj Rajaratnam and a codefendant pleaded not guilty Monday to charges they were major players in a scheme that used inside information to make stock trades that generated millions of dollars in profits.Prosecutors, who have described the case as a "wake up call for Wall Street," promised to hand over to defense attorneys 100 hours of intercepted phone calls made over eight months that they say implicate the defendants...

Randy, Evi Quaid plead not guilty in fraud case

Posted on December 28, 2009
Randy and Evi Quaid finally appeared in court Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to felony charges of defrauding an innkeeper.The couple skipped previous court hearings without explanation after being accused of using an invalid credit card to defraud San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito of more than $10,000...

Kansas gov to propose tobacco tax increase in 2010

Posted on December 24, 2009
Gov. Mark Parkinson will propose increasing Kansas' tobacco taxes next year, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.The Democratic governor's plan is likely to face strong opposition in the Republican-controlled Legislature, although the Senate's top leader said he'd support the idea...

Pa. teens plead not guilty to hate crime charge

Posted on December 24, 2009
A federal judge denied bail Tuesday for two Pennsylvania teens who pleaded not guilty to a hate crime charge in the death of a Mexican immigrant, noting that one defendant is accused of kicking the victim in the head "as if you were kicking a field goal...

TVA coal ash spill has hundreds suing for damages

Posted on December 23, 2009
Hundreds of people sued the Tennessee Valley Authority for damages before a one-year deadline to file personal injury claims related to the utility's huge coal ash spill at Kingston.Court clerks said 20 more federal lawsuits were filed in Knoxville on the final day before the Monday deadline, most of them seeking damages for multiple plaintiffs...

Lingle: Use hotel tax money for state budget

Posted on December 23, 2009
Faced with a $1.2 billion budget gap, Gov. Linda Lingle on Monday proposed the state take about $100 million in hotel taxes from Hawaii's four counties next year and delay the payment of some personal and corporate income tax refunds.The governor's supplemental budget for the 2011 fiscal year that begins July 1 does not call for wholesale layoffs or an increase in the number of furlough days state workers are already taking...

Pittsburgh won't tax tuition; nonprofits to donate

Posted on December 22, 2009
Pittsburgh officials shelved an idea for a first-of-its-kind tax on college tuition after two universities and a nonprofit health insurer agreed on Monday to make large contributions to the city.Mayor Luke Ravenstahl hopes the contributions from the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University or Highmark Inc...

Citadel Broadcasting: court grants 1st-day motions

Posted on December 22, 2009
Citadel Broadcasting Corp. said Monday that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has granted all of its first-day motions ? including allowing the company access to over $36 million in cash it has on hand and cash it brings in from daily operations to pay workers and vendors...

Supreme Court halts release of 2 murderers

Posted on December 19, 2009
North Carolina's Supreme Court has temporarily halted the release of two convicted murderers under life sentences.The court granted a request from the state attorney general's office Friday afternoon, shortly before Alford Jones and Faye Brown were set to go free...

Lawsuit says ads in social games are scamming players

Posted on December 07, 2009
Gamers are crying foul play over what they claim are misleading ads on social games. A class-action lawsuit last month highlights what thousands of consumers say are bogus offers tied to social games available on Facebook and other social networks. The 16-page lawsuit, filed in U...

Lawsuit: Botched Diagnosis Led to 30-Year-Old New York Teacher's Brain Hemorrhage Death

Posted on November 23, 2009
Page rank5Doctors at a Long Island hospital failed to properly diagnose a 30-year-old Queens teacher's head pain in the days leading up to her death from a brain hemorrhage, a lawsuit alleges. Melissa Fudge, who taught at PS 16 in Corona, died a year ago tomorrow...

Idaho to pay $50K to settle grazing lease lawsuit

Posted on November 18, 2009
Idaho agreed Tuesday to pay $50,000 and pledged to follow anti-discrimination rules to settle a federal lawsuit against state officials who awarded grazing leases to ranchers, not the environmentalist who had offered more money.The Idaho Board of Land has also committed to revising its rules to allow conservation groups to lease state endowment trust lands, a big change after years of fierce litigation...

Oregon criminal defense lawyer

Posted on November 18, 2009
Max J. Mizejewski Max Mizejewski (pronounced Majeski) received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993. In 1997, Max graduated from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College and went on to work in the public sector before entering private practice...

Court again upholds Fla. homeowner tax breaks

Posted on November 18, 2009
A three-judge panel Tuesday rejected another challenge to state constitutional amendments that give property tax breaks to Florida's primary homeowners, but not to owners of second homes.The panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal disagreed with arguments that the amendments violate U...

Fla. lawyer suspected in $1B fraud losing license

Posted on November 18, 2009
A South Florida lawyer suspected of operating a $1 billion Ponzi scheme is asking for his own disbarment.A Florida Bar committee has approved the disbarment request submitted by attorney Scott Rothstein. A spokeswoman said Wednesday the final decision must be made by the state Supreme Court...

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