Recent Updates
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Conn. high court to hear immigrant benefits case
Daily Legal News 11/29/2010The Connecticut Supreme Court will be hearing arguments in a case where state lawmakers voted to end medical benefits for some impoverished legal immigrants. The justices are set to hear the case Tuesday. A Hartford Superior Court judge ruled in Dece...
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Historic RICO ruling against Cook County Board of Review
Lawyer News 11/20/2010The Federal Court of the Seventh Circuit sustained both civil RICO and Honest Services charges in the suit against Cook County Board of Review Commissioners Larry Rogers Jr., Joseph Berrios and Brendan Houlihan, along with members of their senior sta...
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Feds conducting big insider trading probe
Daily Legal News 11/20/2010Federal authorities are examining whether multiple insider-trading rings reaped illegal profits totaling tens of millions of dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. The three-year criminal and ci...
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Apotheker a no-show in Oracle-SAP trial
Daily Legal News 11/20/2010An industrial espionage trial between Oracle Corp. and SAP AG, two of the world's biggest business software makers, ended Friday without the testimony of one of its most anticipated witnesses. The evidence part of the three-week trial wrapped up Frid...
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Lawyers Offer Free Legal Service Nationwide: pro bono week!
Press Release 11/20/2010For one week at the end of October, law schools, law firms, bar associations and other legal groups from Seattle to Boston and New York to New Orleans will recognize the work done by lawyers on behalf of the poor and underserved through a national pr...
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Former U.S. Marine Corps Judge Advocate Joins Tully Rinckey PLLC
Press Release 11/20/2010Tully Rinckey PLLC is pleased to announce the addition of attorney J.E. Yancey Ellis as an Associate in its Washington, D.C. law office. Ellis joins Tully Rinckey PLLC after serving in the U.S. Marine Corps for over four years, including a year long ...
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ARMSTRONG TEASDALE, DONALD BEIMDIEK HONORED FOR PRO BONO HELP TO CHIPS
Press Release 11/20/2010Armstrong Teasdale is being honored as part of the 20th anniversary celebration of the founding of Community Health-In-Partnership Services (CHIPS) Health and Wellness Center, which provides healthcare and social services to uninsured St. Louisans. D...
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CLS Mitigation Consulting Services “Defending the Damned”
Practice Legal News 11/06/2010CLS Mitigation & Consulting Services " Representing clients accused of horrific crimes is a daunting, soul-searching, tall order of business for any lawyer. Defending people like Joe Atkins who shot 13-year-old Karen Patterson to death in her bed...
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When Doctors Go Bad – Misdiagnosis of Cervical Cancer
Practice Legal News 11/06/2010Every day, somewhere in America more than 300 innocent men, women, and children become victims of medical malpractice at the hands of incompetent and negligent doctors. Maybe just like your own family doctor. And these people end up either dead or pe...
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E-Marketing for Law Firms: Blogs and Twitter
Press Release 11/06/2010Dr. Ruth Page reports for SolicitorsSearch.com that blogs and Twitter are effective e-marketing tools for law firms. Her studies indicate; however, that using these tools isn't a simple task and getting them right takes significant time investment. S...
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Zafer Akin Opens New Law Firm in Manhattan
Press Release 11/06/2010Zafer Akin, an experienced employment law attorney in New York, has opened a new law firm in New York City. The new firm, Akin Law Group, PLLC, provides legal services to clients dealing with employment discrimination and sexual harassment issues. Th...
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Orange County Personal Injury Attorney Launches Site Redesign
Press Release 11/06/2010Samer Habbas, a personal injury attorney at the Law Offices of Samer Habbas in Southern California, is very pleased to announce the launch of the redesign of the law firm's website. Mr. Habbas is an Orange County injury attorney who has years of expe...