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Ga. Appeals Panel Revives Survivors’ Suits Over Courthouse Shooting

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:28:44 +0000

Almost five years to the day after Brian G. Nichols’ murderous rampage at the Fulton County Courthouse, the Georgia Court of Appeals has revived civil suits filed by two surviving staff members of slain Superior Court Judge Rowland W. Barnes

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Cohen Milstein and BuckleySandler Feud Over Homebuilder Case

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:28:27 +0000

Two mortgage fraud investigations have sparked a spat between high-powered Washington, D.C., law firms. Citing an alleged conflict of interest, BuckleySandler filed a federal suit seeking to bar the Arizona and Nevada AGs from employing Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll to investigate potential mortgage fraud cases against Pulte Homes. Cohen Milstein has demanded that BuckleySandler correct “knowingly false assertions” in its complaint and accused it of engaging in “a disgraceful and intolerable abuse of process.”

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Court Upholds Contempt Sentence for Poison-Pen Letter Writer

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:28:17 +0000

A gadfly known for suing judges, police and other officials could spend six months in jail for venting his ire at the city of Paterson, N.J.’s corporation counsel. An appeals court on Tuesday held that Bernard Laufgas was properly sentenced for violating a restraining order meant to protect Susan Champion and other city employees. For 14 years, Laufgas has waged a vendetta against the city and its employees, filing suits and sending intimidating letters

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Former RRA Attorney Lived Rent-Free in Home Owned by Rothstein

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:28:09 +0000

The defense attorney for disbarred attorney Scott Rothstein said in a deposition that he was paid a $350,000 salary and lived rent-free in a waterfront home owned by his employer.

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Microsoft Hit With Another Multimillion-Dollar Loss in Texas

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:28:02 +0000

After being hit with a $290 million trial loss last year, Microsoft and decorated patent lawyer Matthew Powers went into the same Texas courtroom with the same judge, against the same Dallas lawyer — and lost again. The jury concluded late Tuesday that Microsoft willfully infringed on patents held by VirnetX, and awarded the California technology licensing company $105.8 million

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High Court Justices, Legal Luminaries Debate Shakespeare’s ‘Henry V’

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:27:55 +0000

William Shakespeare’s “Henry V” provided the plot for the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s annual mock trial Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., featuring a collection of high-profile judges and lawyers, including Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito Jr. and Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who was sitting as chief justice for a change. The case before the seven-judge panel asked whether Henry V should be held criminally responsible for the mass execution of French prisoners of war after the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

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Jury Finds Plaintiffs Lawyers Defrauded Railroad in Asbestos Suit

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:27:47 +0000

When a federal jury returned a verdict against two Mississippi plaintiffs lawyers, finding they had committed fraud against Illinois Central Railroad, it was the culmination of the railroad’s seven-year battle against abusive asbestos claims. It also may have been the first civil trial in which attorneys were nailed for fraud in bringing these claims: The jury found the attorneys lied when they denied knowing their clients had previously settled asbestos claims that should have barred them from filing against the railroad.

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Chadbourne Rescinds Job Offers to 11 Deferred Associates

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:27:40 +0000

Chadbourne & Parke confirmed on Wednesday that it had rescinded job offers to 11 incoming associates it had previously deferred past January 2010.

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Goldman Sachs Sued for Not Divulging Internal Madoff Ban to Client

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:27:34 +0000

A Bernard Madoff victim who lost $15 million is suing Goldman Sachs for allegedly failing to tell him in 2004 that he should pull his money out of the Madoff Fund.

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N.Y. City Bar Retracts Survey’s ‘Not Satisfied’ Finding on Deferred Associates

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:27:27 +0000

The New York City Bar on Wednesday retracted a finding from a survey suggesting that deferred associates were not satisfied with the lawyers with whom they worked at public interest groups. Saying it had misinterpreted data, the bar association also issued a revised report, which claims that deferred associates “were largely happy with their placements,” a stark difference from the previous report, which suggested a “culture gap” existed between the law firm-bound lawyers and their public interest colleagues.

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