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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("$100M Suit Claims Ex-Firm Leader Peddled Phony Investments in Sex Scandal Case
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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("A lawsuit that seeks more than $100 million in damages alleges that ousted Florida law firm leader Scott Rothstein solicited investors for an alleged Ponzi scheme by piggybacking on actual lawsuits, including a tawdry case his firm was handling that involved a billionaire accused of engaging in sexual activities with underage girls. The investor lawsuit also contends TD Bank served as the 'critical linchpin legitimizing' a fraud and knew the law firm was moving hundreds of millions of dollars through its accounts.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Do Defendants Get Enough Warning About a Guilty Plea's Consequences?
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Source=Source.concat("The National Law Journal
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Tony Mauro
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Two very different cases, the Jose Padilla case and the 'balloon boy' case, cast new light on a legal issue that has been simmering for years: when, whether and how defendants should be informed about the collateral consequences of pleading or being found guilty. A model law tackling the issue will go before the American Bar Association for endorsement in February, and then would be put before state legislators. But the new emphasis on informing defendants about collateral consequences is not without critics.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("General Counsel Panelists Say They Like Firms That Take the Initiative
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Source=Source.concat("The National Law Journal
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Sheri Qualters
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("A panel of general counsel and senior in-house lawyers at a conference last week revealed that cost isn't always their top criteria when picking outside lawyers. They also want outside lawyers to take the initiative in building a relationship. Julia Coyne, Nike's assistant GC, recalled a law firm that did a pitch even after learning that the work it wanted was farmed out elsewhere. The firm later became a Nike partner. 'They were willing to come in and spend the time,' Coyne said.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("EDD Tale: Caught in the Middle
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Source=Source.concat("Special to Law.com
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Jason Krause
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("When an e-discovery provider was assigned the job of looking for e-mail evidence in a recent business dispute, it seemed like just another job until the company found itself on the receiving end of a motion for contempt for reporting that 70,000 files had been deleted from a computer.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Sutherland to Jettison Lockstep Associate Pay
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Source=Source.concat("Fulton County Daily Report
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Meredith Hobbs
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Sutherland will shift from lockstep associate compensation to a performance-based system in January. The firm's roughly 175 associates will be grouped into three tiers, with advancement and pay increases pegged to their mastery of various skills. 'The driving force in the change is to be able to communicate to the client that an associate has a certain level of skills, and that's what you're paying for,' said the firm's professional development director. 'Now, the person is not a fourth-year just through inertia.'
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Ex-Pa. Judges in 'Kids for Cash' Scandal Win Partial Civil Immunity
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Source=Source.concat("The Legal Intelligencer
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Leo Strupczewski
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Two former Luzerne County, Pa., judges who are facing federal criminal charges have been granted partial immunity in a civil suit brought by a class of juveniles who claim their rights were violated in the wake of the Luzerne County 'kids for cash' judicial scandal. Writing that judicial immunity does not operate on a 'sliding scale,' U.S. District Judge A. Richard Caputo has ruled that Michael T. Conahan and Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. are protected by immunity from facing legal action for their courtroom acts.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Class Action Target Sues Law Firm for Defamation
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Source=Source.concat("The Recorder
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Kate Moser
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Dietary supplement maker Brain Research Labs has sued Ropers Majeski partner Thomas Clarke Jr. and his law firm, as well as the plaintiff named in a complaint against Brain Research, saying that comments made about the class action litigation on TV and in a YouTube video are defamatory and have hurt the company's business. In a Friday hearing on a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, the company's lawyers painted Clarke as an attorney who'd gone too far.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Federal Judge Allows Class Action Over IRS Refund Notice to Proceed
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Source=Source.concat("The Legal Intelligencer
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Shannon P. Duffy
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Dealing another major setback to the IRS in the ongoing litigation over how it handled a massive $8 billion refund for a now-abandoned telephone excise tax, a Pennsylvania federal judge has refused to dismiss a nationwide class action that says the agency's public notices about the refund's availability violated due process. The ruling comes on the heels of a scathing August decision from a Washington, D.C., federal appeals court that revived similar suits alleging the IRS violated the Administrative Procedures Act.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Insurer Must Defend 'Douche' Defamation Suit, Judge Says
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Source=Source.concat("New York Law Journal
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Daniel Wise
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Calling someone a 'douche' may be bad manners but it does not give an insurance company grounds to disavow a policy protecting against defamation claims, a New York judge has ruled. The dispute arose after public relations firm owner Drew Kerr, mimicking rival Ronn Torossian's practice of purchasing domain names containing the names of competitors, purchased the domain 'www.ronntorossianpr' and posted a photo of a package of 'Summer's Eve' douche product.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Seyfarth Latest to Cut First-Year Associate Pay
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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("Seyfarth Shaw is cutting associate salaries by 5 percent to 10 percent for all first-years who start in 2010, according to J. Stephen Poor, the firm's chairman and managing partner. The firm declined to comment beyond a statement Poor released in which he tied the salary reductions to 'pressure' its clients are feeling to cut costs. The announcement came on the same day Seyfarth informed half of its 16 incoming first-years scheduled to start in January that they would not start until October 2010.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Plaintiffs Lawyer in Philip Morris Suit Explains $300 Million Verdict
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Source=Source.concat("The American Lawyer
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Ben Hallman
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Robert Kelley, the attorney for former smoker Cindy Naugle, who last week won a whopping $300 million verdict in a suit against Philip Morris, spoke to The Am Law Litigation Daily about why the award in Naugle's case was so much larger than those in other so-called Engle progeny suits. One reason, Kelley said, was that this was the first trial in which the jury heard about the 'real financial resources' of Philip Morris. 'The jury was impressed by the numbers,' he said.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Report Finds Prosecutor's Offer of Bar Tip in Exchange for Juror's Guilty Vote Was a Joke
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Source=Source.concat("The Recorder
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Mike McKee
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("A report filed with the California Supreme Court expressly finds that Ronald Bass, a former San Francisco deputy attorney general, was joking when he offered juror Zetta Southworth $10 to $20 in exchange for a guilty vote in the mid-'80s death penalty trial of double-murderer Curtis Price. Defense lawyers for Price raised the bribe allegations, claiming Bass handed a bartender the money as a tip and made the suggestion that he share it with Southworth, who was a cook in the restaurant, for a guilty vote.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Air Marshal Claims Assault by Flight Attendant
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Source=Source.concat("Fulton County Daily Report
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Greg Land
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("A federal air marshal who says he was seriously injured when a flight attendant deliberately smashed a beverage cart into him is suing Delta Air Lines and the crew member, a 'Jane Doe' co-defendant in the suit, who allegedly preceded the attack with less forceful rammings and warnings that he and a fellow air marshal should 'stay out of my way.' U.S. Air Marshal Harold Lamberson has since been unable to return to duty and is now working at a desk for a much lower salary, said his attorney.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Gay Marriage Gets Boost From 9th Circuit
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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("Not one to be left out of a constitutional thicket, 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski granted health benefits Thursday to the same-sex partners of court employees. Kozinski's order came a day after his colleague, Judge Stephen Reinhardt, issued his own published directive that a federal public defender be awarded back pay because his same-sex partner's benefits had been denied.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Pa. Court Mulls Class Decertification in Off-Label Drug Case
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Source=Source.concat("The Legal Intelligencer
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Gina Passarella
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("A class can't be decertified unless there are substantial changes to the facts of a case, nor can it be decertified once a partial ruling has been made as to the merits of the case, an attorney for a class suing over the off-label marketing of epilepsy and neuralgia drug Neurontin argued before the Pennsylvania Superior Court in Philadelphia. The attorney argued that Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Mark I. Bernstein improperly decertified the class in February -- a month before trial.
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