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February 12, 2008 |

Contrite Lerach gets maximum two-year term

The gray-haired man in the black robe huffed. And he puffed.But in the end, Los Angeles federal Judge John Walter didn't blow up William Lerach's plea deal. Walter did, however, sentence the former securities class action king Monday to two years in jail the highest penalty allowed under Lerach's agreement with the government.
5 minute read
November 19, 2009 |

Transactions: Residential

Coral Gables mansion sells for $6.15 million $3.7 million buys Fisher Island condo
4 minute read
July 19, 2004 |

Tools of the Trade

Barbara Rollins, judge of Taylor County Court at Law No. 2, immersed herself in the world of forensic science two years ago to write four children's books about the tools of modern crime-solving.
8 minute read
November 01, 2011 |

Chrysler October U.S. sales rise 27%

General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC said U.S. deliveries rose less than analysts' estimates that called for the best sales month since February.
5 minute read
November 20, 2008 |

Professional Liability

Attorney Norman B. Arnoff and Sue C. Jacobs, a member of Goodman & Jacobs, write that however the standard of causation is characterized, i.e., proximate cause, as a "but for" act or omission, or as a "substantial factor in the sequence of causation," no legal malpractice cause of action can survive, notwithstanding the degree of bad lawyering, if the resulting loss or the absence of an expected benefit is not the immediate and meaningful product of the lawyer's negligence.
14 minute read
September 27, 2012 |

Fed maneuvers help lenders more than homebuyers

Since the Federal Reserve's latest mortgage bond purchases, the rates offered for new 30-year loans have fallen by just 0.11 percentage point, compared with a drop of more than 0.6 percentage point for yields on the bonds into which the loans get packaged.
6 minute read
February 06, 2008 |

LegalTech New York 2008 Blogs On

As the first day of LegalTech New York 2008 winds down, culminating in the Law Technology News Awards, the Legal Blog Watch section weighs in with reports from the show floor -- from knowledge management panels to what could be called "A Nightmare on E-Mail Street." Stay tuned.
6 minute read
June 01, 2009 |

Bobby v. Bies

The Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar a state court from conducting a full hearing on mental capacity under Atkins v. Virginia , since earlier determinations regarding the mental capacity of the defendant were not necessary to the judgments affirming his death sentence.
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