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Legal groups line up against proposal to investigate Gitmo lawyers
The American Bar Association and other legal organizations are urging leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee to resist a provision in a House defense bill that directs the Department of Defense's inspector general to investigate lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees.Baseball Manager La Russa Pulls Twitter Suit
Famed baseball manager Tony La Russa has quietly dropped his high-profile and much-maligned lawsuit against Twitter over a snarky impersonator on the microblogging Web site. La Russa's lawyer wrote in a court filing that his client was dismissing the case, adding that "No payment was made by Twitter to La Russa in exchange for this dismissal." Legal observers were skeptical of the merits of the case, which appeared to be the first legal challenge to the popular San Francisco startup.Assisted suicide case revives right-to-die debate
ATLANTA AP - The case against an alleged assisted suicide ring known as the Final Exit Network has revived a long-simmering debate over the right to die.The network's president, its medical director and two other members are due in court Friday on charges they aided the suicide of a 58-year-old Georgia man who suffered for years from cancer of the throat and mouth.From the Experts: Preparing for Whistleblowers Under Dodd-Frank
While there is no sure way for a company faced with a securities violation to ensure that it will not become the subject of a whistleblower report, there are steps corporate counsel can take to minimize the risk.Billion-Dollar Settlement in Microsoft Class Action
Microsoft Corp. on Friday settled a series of coordinated class actions for $1.1 billion in vouchers that 13 million plaintiffs in California can use to buy computer products. The settlement represents a much higher return for California plaintiffs than one proposed by Microsoft a year ago and refused by a federal judge in Baltimore. The settlement comes a month before the case, Lingo v. Microsoft, was to go to trial in San Francisco Superior Court.Federal judge keeps BP litigation moving
Less than two years after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 workers and pouring millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, more than 500 lawsuits have been filed against BP Plc and other defendants. Consolidated into one of the largest multidistrict litigation proceedings on record, the claims are moving toward trial at astonishing speed, considering their complexity.Pepper Hamilton Snags IP Group From Cozen O'Connor
Pepper Hamilton has added to its intellectual property group twice in the last month, and the latest group comes from Cozen O'Connor. Partners Mark DeLuca and Paul K. Legaard joined the firm's Berwyn, Pa., office on March 1 and were followed by four other intellectual property attorneys and one patent agent. DeLuca said he and his group were looking for a firm with a more active life sciences business practice. A five-attorney intellectual property group also joined the firm's Boston office this month.Creating a Culture of Compliance
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