NEXT

Latest Stories

June 14, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Murder highlights safety risks of family law

At 9:20 a.m. on June 2, Carey Hal Dyess walked into the converted single-story house that served as Jerrold Shelley's law office in Yuma, Ariz.Dyess, 73, instructed an office administrator to move out of the way and then shot and killed the 62-year-old lawyer, who had been in the process of packing up his office and retiring.
8 minute read
July 14, 2009 | Daily Report Online

A judge's game

Judge Diane E. Bessen of Fulton County State Court has enjoyed a good round of golf ever since she was a kid growing up in upstate New York. She is a native of Liberty, N.Y., a small town located in the center of the Catskill Mountains. "It's a very beautiful place, a gorgeous part of the country," said Bessen.
4 minute read
January 25, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Attorneys see growth in move to private equity

SEAN DOHERTY WAS a 36-year-old associate at Ropes Gray when he got a job offer from the private equity firm Bain Capital in 2005. Doherty was a deal lawyer, which was important to Bain executives, but they weren't looking for someone to advise them on deals. Bain had decided, after 21 years in business, that it was time to hire its first in-house lawyer.
17 minute read
May 31, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Report: Expedia dodged taxes owed to state and local governments across the country

Expedia, one of the nation's largest online travel reservation companies, has demonstrated "a conscious and deliberate effort ... in violation of state and local law" to avoid paying taxes it owes to state and local governments across the country for its online hotel and motel bookings, according to a report unsealed by a judge in Columbus.
10 minute read
September 16, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Rosa Parks' Lawyer Recalls 'Eye Of Storm'

On his way home from Washington where he had attended the commemoration of the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray—one of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s first lawyers—reminded an Atlanta audience Thursday that the movement's often overlooked attorneys ended legal segregation in the South.
9 minute read
December 12, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Big ideas and even bigger sales

If Jim Cramer, the button-mashing circus barker of the financial world, had his way, preschoolers would be tuning in to his money-management show. In ''Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life'' $26, which is just out, Cramer suggests buying your tyke Hasbro, Disney and Gymboree stock: ''I would buy one share of these the moment your child is born.
4 minute read
December 02, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Rabbi's startup rewards moms for watching ads, playing games

When Tiffany Ivanovsky isn't taking care of her seven children or working as a director of a Christian preschool in The Woodlands, Texas, she's writing about shopping deals for parents on her blog, MyLitter.com. While unearthing bargains for her 300,000-plus monthly readers, Ivanovsky, 36, clips coupons for her own family, too, using a rewards site called Swagbucks.
4 minute read
October 27, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Umpire decides who's out, safe in World Series, stock

Tom Hallion has been fielding calls from panicked investors looking for someone to blame for the shrinking value of their portfolios. The yelling doesn't bother the Morgan Keegan Inc. broker. After all, he's a Major League Baseball umpire. In the last month, Hallion has watched historic drops and record rallies in the stock market, while umpiring in the World Series for the first time.
5 minute read
November 16, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Home run king Barry Bonds indicted on perjury, obstruction charges

SAN FRANCISCO AP - Barry Bonds was indicted Thursday for perjury and obstruction of justice, charged with lying when he told a federal grand jury that he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.The indictment unsealed Thursday against baseball's home-run king culminated a four-year investigation into steroid use by elite athletes.
5 minute read
May 01, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Investors stuck on losing end when capital is raised

Financial company shareholders must feel like second-class citizens now, given how they are being treated as some banks raise capital.It's bad enough that investors in National City Corp. and Washington Mutual Inc. have seen their stock holdings plunge in value and dividends crimped because of the huge losses caused by the housing slump and credit crisis.
4 minute read

More from ALM

More from ALM

Legal Speak is a weekly podcast that makes sense of what’s happening in the legal industry.