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April 11, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Florida Senate stalls attempt at alimony reform

Divorce and family law attorney Christopher R. Bruce questions whether the alimony legislation that passed overwhelmingly in the House would have succeeded in the Senate if not for redistricting and budget issues that dominated most of Florida's 2012 legislative session.
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October 23, 2009 | Law.com

Ropes & Gray to Launch London Office With Top U.K. Finance Duo

Ropes & Gray is set for a London launch with the hire of high-profile U.K. finance duo Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz. The two will lead Ropes & Gray's U.K. launch in January, aided by senior U.S.-based partners Newcomb Stillwell and David Chapin. Allen and Goetz come from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, which they had joined in March last year after seven years at White & Case. The pair resigned from White & Case's London office amid tensions between the firm's central management and its U.K. branch.
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January 21, 2005 | Law.com

Florida Business Lobby Demands Legislators Protect Businesses, Extend Caps on Attorney Fees

Florida's most powerful business lobby has drafted a massive tort legislation package that calls for a virtual rewrite of the state's tort system. The bills would abolish punitive damages, cap attorney fees and noneconomic damages in all tort cases and grant immunity from malpractice suits to emergency room doctors. The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers sees the package as a sign that business and industry are preparing to launch their biggest assault ever on the plaintiff bar.
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June 01, 2010 | Legaltech News

S.F. Lab Tech's Checkered Past Just a Google Search Away

Google "Ann Marie Gordon," a technician in San Francisco's troubled crime lab, and a Seattle newspaper article features her resignation from a toxicology lab amid allegations she fraudulently certified breath tests. Could a little online research have helped prevent a crime lab's woes?
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January 10, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

Unfortunate Saga Underscores Need To Recognize Three-Parent Families

A case in which a gestational carrier has been found to be the legal mother of twins, though she has no genetic link with them, can be resolved by recognizing a three-parent family.
5 minute read
December 02, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

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February 18, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judges Criticize Lawyer for Failing to Advise Rapist He Had Right to Testify

A defense lawyer "erred" by not making clear to a rape defendant that it was the client's decision whether or not to testify in his own defense, an upstate appeals court has concluded.
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August 16, 2006 | Law.com

New Jersey AG Resigns After Boyfriend's Traffic Stop Raises Ethics Issues

New Jersey's attorney general resigned Tuesday after a special prosecutor concluded she violated state ethics laws by intervening in a traffic stop involving her boyfriend, lawyer Hamlet Goore. In recent weeks, Zulima Farber denied doing anything to influence the police, but the special prosecutor found that she "knowingly acted to secure a benefit for Mr. Goore that was violative of the motor vehicle laws and obviously not available to the general public." Farber will step down at the end of the month.
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October 01, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Timing Is Everything With Act 91 Notice Challenges

This past summer, the Pennsylvania Superior Court filed a noteworthy opinion highlighting just how strictly statutory timing requirements can be construed.
6 minute read
April 11, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

No Bar to In-House Counsel Recovering Taxed Legal Fees in Special Civil Part

Retail-installment creditors can recover legal fees taxed in small-claims court even when they rely on in-house counsel, to collect a debt, an appeals court rules in a precedential decision.
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