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Court gets little guidance on Howes penalty
Just when it looked like the long-running discipline case against former Assistant U.S. Attorney G. Paul Howes couldn't get any more complicated, it did. The District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility on July 27 issued three conflicting recommendations on how Howes should be sanctioned.
Midsize Firms Happy to Sort Through Remainders
Like their bigger competitors, midsize law firms have hired fewer associates since the recession. Still, hard times have proven a boon in one sense:Fuming Foes Do Little to Halt 17200 Package
Corporate lawyers and tort reformers Tuesday continued to deride plaintiffs bar-backed bills to tweak the state's unfair competition law, but their arguments did little to derail the legislation. A pair of committees appeared ready late Tuesday to pass the two-bill package that would retool portions of the Business and Professions Code § 17200. The package is supported by the Consumer Attorneys of California.
Boutique's Merger With Larger Firm Wasn't What Lawyers Bargained For
Berg & Parker attorneys merged with Preston Gates & Ellis seeking stability and growth for their 13-lawyer firm. But when Preston Gates was snapped up by Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham a couple of years later, some former Berg lawyers say they found their practice unsupported and felt pressure to hike billing rates. David Franklin says his Berg rate of $350 remained unchanged for existing clients but went "north of $400" for new clients. So Franklin and several other lawyers sought out new homes.Judge Peels Off DEHP Cancer Warning Label
A California Superior Court judge has ruled that DEHP -- a chemical used to keep medical plastic flexible -- no longer needs to bear a warning that it may cause cancer. Proposition 65 requires a warning on any potential human carcinogen, and this ruling marks the first time in the proposition's 16-year history that a manufacturer's affirmative legal action has resulted in an exemption to a mandated warning.
California Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Antitrust Case Against Big Pharma
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High Court to Weigh in on Attorney General Lawsuits
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In a price-fixing case that Mississippi's attorney general brought against a slew of LCD makers, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether parens patriae lawsuits are class actions in disguise that don't belong in the hands of state court judges.
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