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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Expanding Insider Trading Probe Nets Lawyers
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Source=Source.concat("New York Law Journal
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Mark Hamblett and Nate Raymond
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Two lawyers were among several people arrested Thursday in a rapidly expanding hedge fund insider trading scandal. Arthur J. Cutillo allegedly gave information about mergers and acquisitions he gleaned as an associate at Ropes & Gray to Jason Goldfarb, an associate with the personal injury firm Brecher Fishman Pasternack Walsh Tilker & Ziegler. Prosecutors said that Goldfarb then passed the tips to the head of a ring who based trades on the information.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Testing the Scope of BofA's Privilege Waiver
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Source=Source.concat("The American Lawyer
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Zach Lowe
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("A group of plaintiffs lawyers is testing whether Bank of America's waiver of attorney-client privilege in the Merrill Lynch flap might apply to shareholder suits against BofA related to its merger with Merrill. The bank intended the waiver to apply only to the SEC case and to investigations by New York's attorney general and a congressional committee. But the waiver may not have been crafted correctly, leaving an opening for plaintiffs firms to go after privileged documents in their own cases against BofA.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("D.C. Court of Appeals Resurrects Cell Phone Radiation Cases
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Source=Source.concat("The National Law Journal
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Jordan Weissmann
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("The D.C. Court of Appeals last week revived a series of lawsuits by individuals who say they were harmed by cell phone radiation, adding yet another wrinkle to a debate within U.S. courts over whether national regulations trump state laws when it comes to issues surrounding cell phone safety. The decision gave both sides of the case fodder to declare victory -- but some lawyers said the ruling could lead to the filing of even more suits against cell phone companies in Washington's trial court.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Automating BlackBerry Support Across IT
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Source=Source.concat("Legal Tech Newsletter
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Robert Holloway
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Faced with the prospect of recurring smartphone service issues, Cadwalader's IT department searched for technology to manage, monitor and support its global BlackBerry environment. After a competitive review, the firm selected BoxTone's modular software platform.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("DOJ Pushes 'Comprehensive Approach' to Discovery Reform
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Source=Source.concat("The National Law Journal
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Mike Scarcella
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("At an ABA panel discussion Thursday, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman underlined his and others' support for strengthening a federal rule that spells out the government's obligation to turn over favorable evidence to defense lawyers. To address the judiciary's concern, the Justice Department is implementing a mandatory annual training program for prosecutors and creating a position overseeing discovery reform, but it has said it's not willing to accept an overhaul to the criminal rules.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("9th Circuit Vindicates Judge for His Ruling in Bizarre Murder-for-Hire Case
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Source=Source.concat("The Recorder
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Dan Levine
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Conservatives on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rode to the rescue of one of their own on Thursday, finding that Judge Richard Tallman didn't botch a bizarre murder-for-hire case in Idaho. The en banc decision from Judge Carlos Bea reverses an earlier opinion that blasted Tallman for refusing to grant defendant David Hinkson a new trial. The author of that panel opinion, Judge William Fletcher, now writes in dissent.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Legal Sector Loses 5,800 Jobs in October
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Source=Source.concat("The American Lawyer
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Brian Baxter
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("According to a monthly jobs report released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the nation lost 190,000 jobs in October as the unemployment rate jumped to 10.2 percent, its highest point since 1983. The legal sector wasn't spared. When data is seasonally adjusted, the legal field shed another 5,800 jobs in October. When not seasonally adjusted, the legal industry actually gained 1,500 jobs, but that's likely a result of summer associates being weaned from law firm payrolls.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Panel Reinstates Failed Hedge Fund's Claim Against J.P. Morgan Chase
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Source=Source.concat("New York Law Journal
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Mark Fass
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("A lawsuit by Amaranth, the largest hedge fund ever to fail, against J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., will go forward, following the N.Y. Appellate Division's reinstatement yesterday of the fund's claim for tortious interference. Amaranth, which collapsed in 2006, alleged that J.P. Morgan, the fund's prime broker, breached its contract by refusing to release money from its margin account, which prevented Amaranth from making large trades that would have reduced the fund's exposure.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Boston Scientific to Pay $296 Million in Settlement
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Source=Source.concat("The Associated Press
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. said Friday it will pay $296 million to settle a DOJ investigation into the company's Guidant unit. The investigation involved product advisories issued by Guidant in 2005, a year before Boston Scientific paid $27 billion for the heart device maker. Throughout 2007, Boston Scientific agreed to various settlements over heart patients' legal claims that Guidant knowingly sold defibrillators with potentially life-threatening defects.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Fla. Firm's Attorneys Rally Their Defenses as Partner Faces Fraud Allegations
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Source=Source.concat("Daily Business Review
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Jordana Mishory
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("The downfall of one-time power broker Scott Rothstein amid an alleged fraud that investors say cost them at least $400 million is generating new business for lawyers all over South Florida -- and some of that business is coming from attorneys with the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm. Said well-known criminal defense attorney Fred Haddad, who has been retained by name partner Russell Adler, 'Innocent people need a lawyer more than guilty people in something like this.'
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Law School Professor Withdraws Suit Against Legal Blog
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Source=Source.concat("The National Law Journal
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Karen Sloan
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("A law school professor has withdrawn a suit accusing legal blog Above the Law of publishing a 'viciously racist series of rants' after reporting his arrest for suspicion of soliciting prostitution. David Lat, the blog's managing editor, declined comment Thursday, but on Wednesday he wrote that there had been no settlement and that the posts Donald Marvin Jones complained about will remain on the site. Lat offered to let Jones make his case on Above the Law, but there was no word from Jones on that front as of Thursday.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Note to Supreme Court Justices: Specter Saw You on TV
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Source=Source.concat("The National Law Journal
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("David Ingram
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., has been a longtime advocate of televising sessions of the U.S. Supreme Court, a quest that has repeatedly fallen on deaf ears at the high court. But in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday, Specter noted that the justices haven't exactly been camera-shy of late, appearing in television interviews and a recent C-SPAN documentary. Specter is hoping to line up his colleagues behind a resolution he introduced Thursday that would get the 'sense of the Senate' on cameras in the Court.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Expect Calif. Same-Sex Marriage Case to Stay Two-Party Affair
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Source=Source.concat("The Recorder
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Dan Levine
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Try as they might, lawyers from one anti-gay rights organization just can't get any love from judges in California. After being barred from intervening in the federal challenge to Proposition 8, the state's ban on same-sex marriage, the Campaign for California Families tried its luck Wednesday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But a conservative panel didn't appear any more likely to let the group into the case.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("N.Y. Woman Arrested for Threatening Judge
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Source=Source.concat("New York Law Journal
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Mark Fass
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("A woman has been arrested for repeatedly harassing and threatening the New York judge who has been presiding over her divorce proceeding. According to court records, Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Sunshine initiated the action against Cheryl Uzamere after she left 10 voice messages and sent three faxes to his chambers, containing such threats as 'You're going to pay for what you've done' and that 'the battle was to the death.'
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Day Pitney Makes New Round of Cuts
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Source=Source.concat("The Connecticut Law Tribune
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Douglas S. Malan
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Day Pitney has laid off 29 staff members across eight of the firm's nine offices stretching from Boston to Washington, D.C. In February, Day Pitney let go of 66 staff members firmwide, and in May, the firm dropped 20 lawyers.
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