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November 20, 2008 |

One City Court Judge Censured, Another Admonished

5 minute read
September 15, 2008 |

Civil right to counsel urged

Through litigation and legislation, a growing number of private and public interest lawyers across the country are pushing to secure those with low incomes the right to counsel in civil matters, including foreclosures, evictions and child custody cases. Legal aid groups are under-funded and overworked, they argue, and pro bono services aren't enough to fill the gap for the millions who go unrepresented.
7 minute read
January 24, 2012 |

Panel Upholds Denial of Venue Change in IBM Environmental Suits

The company had argued that it would be virtually impossible to either find eight jurors in Broome County who never worked for IBM or who were not related to one of the 943 plaintiffs in the upcoming trial over the alleged pollution of air and soil near a former factory.
6 minute read
April 25, 2008 |

The illness lawyers don't talk about

In a landmark 1991 study by Johns Hopkins University, in which lawyers ranked first in incidence rate for clinical depression among 105 professions surveyed.
5 minute read
September 11, 2013 |

Gas Exploration Company Drops Bid to Extend Leases

Chesapeake Energy, which had argued that it had the right to extend 200 gas-drilling leases beyond the five-year expiration date because the state's fracking moratorium prevented it from drilling, has dropped its two-year legal battle .
2 minute read
May 14, 2004 |

Pro Bono

A team of local lawyers has filed a class action suit on behalf "thousands of children" im Mississippi placed into abusive foster care situations, and the city and state bars have recognized the good works of a number of other practitioners.
3 minute read
May 03, 2013 |

Town Fracking Bans Ruled Not Preempted by State Mining Law

"While the Town's exercise of its right to regulate land use through zoning will inevitably have an incidental effect upon the oil, gas and solution mining industries, we conclude that zoning ordinances are not the type of regulatory provision that the Legislature intended to be preempted by the [Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Law]," Justice Karen Peters wrote.
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