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April 29, 2011 | Law.com

Judge rules David Stern, company may be held liable for alleged worker act violations

A federal judge has ruled that former employees of DJSP Enterprises, a foreclosure processing company led by lawyer David J. Stern, can go after him personally as well as the company for allegedly violating labor laws.
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July 20, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

Failure-to-Warn Claim Not Pre-Empted, 2nd Circuit Concludes

The adequacy of warnings on a container of a wood-finishing product means that a family's state court claim should not have been ruled to be pre-empted under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act, the 2nd Circuit has ruled. The panel found that state failure-to-warn claims should not have been dismissed in a lawsuit filed against Home Depot in the Eastern District of New York because the warning labels on the product clearly ran afoul of the act and its regulations.
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April 18, 2002 | Law.com

Ethics Report Charges Attorney Moonlighted and Falsified Records

An investigation conducted by the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender reveals that Robert Tarver, chief of the Ocean County branch, was one very busy man. Tarver, the report alleges, falsified his time sheets and spent numberless days AWOL, appearing on national television shows as a legal commentator. Clients angrily called the office because they couldn't reach him at work even though they could see him on TV, the report says.
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January 11, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Free at Last, But Will It Last?

Houston free-lance writer Vanessa Leggett, the darling of free-speech watchdogs nationwide, was released from the Federal Detention Center on Jan. 4 after spending 168 days behind bars. She had refused to hand over to a federal grand jury four years of taped interviews and research about the 1997 River Oaks murder of socialite Doris Angleton. The victim`s husband, Robert Angleton, and his brother, Roger, who committed suicide in jail before trial, were charged in the case. Leggett had interviewed many of
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October 11, 2006 | Law.com

Will Law Firm Blogs Be Regulated as Advertising?

For many lawyers, blogs have become a popular tool for both marketing and discussion. But their amorphous quality is creating uneasiness about their ethical implications. Many states that are revamping attorney ethics rules are wondering if firm blogs should be regulated as advertising. Law professor Larry Ribstein says that whether blog content is deemed advertising or protected political speech could become the quintessential test of the commercial speech doctrine: "It doesn't get any hazier than blogs."
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April 01, 2010 | Legaltech News

Fit to be Tied

New definitions of "dress for success"
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August 23, 2004 | New York Law Journal

Use of Personal Electronic Devices Spurs Privacy Concerns

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October 12, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Group Claims Public Right To Know Amount of Award to Paralyzed Girl

A consumer watchdog group is seeking to open the secret settlement paid to the New Jersey girl whose paralysis in a crash with a drunken Giants football fan brought attention to the evils of binge drinking at sporting events.
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September 17, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Insurer Can Seek Return of $1 Million in Disability Benefits From Lawyer

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a benefit-plan administrator had no duty to further investigate numerous emails alleging that a former Mayer Brown partner was trotting the globe on vacation after claiming she was fully disabled. That clears the way for the insurer to seek $1 million in benefit reimbursements from the lawyer.
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SEC Drops Steffelin CDO Case, Loses Bid to Revive Claims Against Tourre
Publication Date: 2012-11-19
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Within days of announcing big settlements with JPMorgan and Credit Suisse, the SEC was forced to abandon its case against Edward Steffelin, and then lost a bid to salvage part of its case against ex-Goldman Sachs bond trader Fabrice Tourre over the notorious ABACUS CDO.

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