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October 17, 2008 | National Law Journal

Boston lawyer's fight over indigent legal fees kicked to federal court

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that a Boston lawyer's case over reimbursement of his legal fees against officials of a state agency that assigns lawyers to indigent litigants should be decided in federal court. Daniel Batterman, a solo practitioner who representings indigent children and parents for the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, sued committee officials over unpaid reimbursement for his work.
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October 10, 2008 | National Law Journal

N.H.'s only law school in merger talks with state's largest public university

New Hampshire's only law school has entered merger talks with the state's largest public university. Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord and the University of New Hampshire in Durham announced on Oct. 9 that they have formed working groups to explore the "benefits and risks" of a merger.
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May 09, 2005 | National Law Journal

CRIMINAL PRACTICE | 2d Cir. clarifies remands after 'Booker'

The 2d U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals continues to sort out the review and remand of cases under the U.S. Supreme Court decision U.S. v. Booker, 125 S. Ct. 738, striking down a key aspect of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
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September 26, 2008 | National Law Journal

Defunct Kentucky law school files bankruptcy papers

A defunct Kentucky law school has run into legal troubles — again. The American Justice School of Law in Paducah, Ky., on Sept. 23 filed bankruptcy papers, listing the entity's assets at $1.6 million and its debts at $5.2 million. Attorney Alan Stout, who filed the petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Kentucky for the law school, said he expects the amount of debt to increase to about $6 million.
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January 11, 2011 | Law.com

Arbitrator failed to disclose relationship with Kellogg, Brown & Root

An arbitrator's prior relationship with one of the parties in an employment dispute has prompted a Texas appeals court to throw out an award involving a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary.
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August 17, 2009 | National Law Journal

Schwarzenegger signs tort reforms into law

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed 131 of the 140 pieces of legislation that had been on hold pending the resolution of his protracted budget negotiations with the state Legislature, including two that affect personal injury lawsuits. One piece of compromise legislation, Assembly Bill 83, protects people who are not in the medical profession from being sued after they help someone at the scene of an accident, unless their actions rise to the level of gross negligence or recklessness.
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September 01, 2008 | National Law Journal

Christensen, Pellicano convicted on two counts of wiretapping charges

Terry Christensen, the lawyer who was accused of paying private investigator Anthony Pellicano to wiretap the phones of an opponent in a high-stakes divorce trial, was convicted on two counts of wiretapping charges. Pellicano, who was convicted in a separate trial earlier this year on 76 counts, including wiretapping and racketeering, was convicted on two more wiretapping counts.
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June 18, 2009 | National Law Journal

Judge enters $2.88 billion judgment against Scrushy over his role in HealthSouth fraud

A Birmingham, Ala., state court judge ended a seven-year long case by declaring that the corporate fraud committed by former HealthSouth Corp. Chief Executive Richard Scrushy entitles the health care services company to recover $2.88 billion from the now imprisoned Scrushy.
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September 27, 2010 | National Law Journal

Google awards legal records site $2 million

Law.gov — the fledgling movement to compile publicly available legal documents and resources on free Web sites — got a $2 million jumpstart from Google on Friday.
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January 14, 2008 | National Law Journal

Justices rule on 'phoning it in'

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reversed a federal appellate court decision holding that a defense lawyer who participates in a plea hearing by speakerphone was presumptively ineffective. Setting aside the legal issues of "telephone practice," the justices overturned the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling that there was no established law requiring a lawyer to be physically present at a hearing.
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