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Y2K Lawyers: Don't Quit Your Day Job
Firms that armed themselves to the teeth to combat an onslaught of Y2K litigation are finding instead that the work is coming in at a trickle -- or not at all.In peanut checks, gaps for salmonella to sneak by
ATLANTA AP - Food regulators didn't consider salmonella a threat to most peanut products before they traced an outbreak to a peanut butter plant in Georgia two years ago. Officials in the nation's top peanut-producing state promptly began checking for the bacteria during routine inspections, and everything went fine for about a year.Lawyers and Technology: Step Right Up, Lawyers for Sale
Suddenly, the idea that legal services can be auctioned off is in vogue. Three services have gone public in the past month with their plans to create Web-based auctions of legal talent. The idea behind the sites: Lawyers will sharpen their pencils if they know they are competing for work, and corporations will discover firms that had been off their radar screen.Negotiator Says Several PSU Settlements Are in Top Tier
With the bulk of the claims against Penn State arising from the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal nearing resolution, the university's lead negotiator said several fall into the highest valuation category, having alleged abuse after 2001, when former Penn State graduate assistant Mike McQueary reported to university officials that he had witnessed an incident in a locker room shower.Senator Says Doubts Over Legal Acumen Underlie His Block of Court Nominee
Responding to press reports that he has stymied a federal appeals court nominee due to a personal grudge, Sen. Robert Menendez on Friday voiced a different rationale: that he considers Patty Shwartz, a magistrate judge since 2003, unqualified for the higher office.Surgeon Who Left Device in Patient Cleared by Jury
A Montgomery County jury has found that a doctor who failed to remove a surgical apparatus from a patient following a colon operation did not cause the patient's death.Voters turned off by ad wars in middle Georgia congressional race
Calif. AG Under Fire For Affirmative Action Ban Stance
California Attorney General Jerry Brown has come under attack for taking the unexpected step recently of questioning the constitutionality of Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot initiative that eliminated most affirmative action programs in California.Ex-Tyco CEO Kozlowski to Settle Tax Case for $21.2M
Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski has agreed to pay $21.2 million to settle a New York state tax case related to his grand larceny conviction for looting the company. The amount covers $3.2 million in sales taxes that he owed on the purchase of $15 million worth of art, as well as $18 million he owes for state and city income taxes. The sales tax case preceded the investigation into thefts from Tyco which resulted in the grand larceny convictions last June of Kozlowski and former CFO Mark H. Swartz.Trending Stories
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