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Deal Watch: DLA Piper helps expand rural Internet access
DLA Piper lawyers are working to help their clients get a piece of the $7.2 billion in stimulus money targeted, in part, at efforts to increase broadband Internet access in rural areas.The stimulus money is intended to bring high-speed Internet connections-via cable, DSL or satellite, as opposed to slower dial-up access-to areas of the country now served by, for example, just one provider or none at all.Lack of guidance on U.S. sex offender rules
LACK OF NATIONAL GUIDANCE over how to implement a new federal sex offender registration and monitoring law for 400,000 registered offenders has left law enforcement and court officials around the country scrambling and confused. "Not a lot of guidance has been forthcoming," said Richard Gayler, western regional president of the Federal Probation and Pretrial Officers Association in Moscow, Idaho.For blind Supreme Court clerk, the sky's the limit
Survey: DAs divided on justice reform
Georgia prosecutors, whose support may be critical in pushing cost-saving criminal justice reform through the Legislature, are divided over proposals put forth by a special council, according to a Daily Report survey.Prosecutors are least enthusiastic about suggestions to reduce sentences or favor probation for nonviolent drug offenders.Is he general counsel or isn't he
DID THE TOP lawyer at Merial Limited mislead Pennsylvania court officials about his resume Horace "Hod" Nalle appears to have been general counsel of the animal pharmaceutical company for a decade, according to several sources. But in a recent application to renew his Pennsylvania law license - which he let lapse in 2002 - Nalle made no mention of being general counsel.View more book results for the query "*"
Contrite Lerach gets maximum two-year term
The gray-haired man in the black robe huffed. And he puffed.But in the end, Los Angeles federal Judge John Walter didn't blow up William Lerach's plea deal. Walter did, however, sentence the former securities class action king Monday to two years in jail the highest penalty allowed under Lerach's agreement with the government.Tough luck for dismissed ND work comp employees
BISMARCK, N.D. AP - Former employees of North Dakota's Workforce Safety and Insurance agency have struggled to pursue claims that they were illegally fired for spotlighting questionable activities at the agency.A judge has thrown out most of the case filed by James Long, the agency's former chief of support services, concluding that Long may sue WSI but not a group of executives and board members he claims plotted to fire him.Religious nonprofits forced to beg by Google
I'm not sure what exactly led Google Inc. to decide to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible by making it harder for religious groups to do their work. But that is the practical effect of a set of changes in pricing policies adopted by the tech giant this year.Until recently, Google offered discounts on many of its paid services to nonprofit organizations, including churches.Trending Stories
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