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• Epstein Becker Partner Sues Greenberg’s Leslie Corwin, Claims Malpractice

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  Partnership law expert Leslie Corwin of Greenberg Traurig is defending a malpractice suit by pointing a finger at the plaintiff, a partner with Epstein Becker & Green. The plaintiff, Allen Roberts, claims Corwin and Greenberg Traurig mishandled an arbitration with Roberts’ former law firm, employment boutique Roberts & Finger, the [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 1:43pm EST
  

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• Kozinski’s Turducken Dissent Sets Up Cert Petition in Privacy Case

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  The government is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court ruling allowing engineers and scientists to pursue a suit that claims newly instituted background checks invade their privacy. The plaintiffs, employees of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, contend the government wants to ask friends and acquaintances about [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 2:30pm EST
  

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• Cell Phone Company and Service Provider Sued for Fatal Car Accident

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  The daughter of a woman killed in a car accident caused by a driver talking on his cell phone has sued the phone maker and the service provider, contending they should have provided better warnings about the dangers of talking and driving. The plaintiff, Jennifer Smith, alleges that the cell [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:19am EST
  

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• Jury Awards $100K to Woman Who Says Fictional Character Defamed Her

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  A Georgia jury has awarded $100,000 to a woman who says she was defamed because a character in the book The Red Hat Club had a mix of her own traits and other false characteristics that depicted her as a promiscuous alcoholic. The Nov. 19 jury award for plaintiff Vickie [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 7:39am EST
  

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• Too Embarrassed to Make Layoffs, Lawyer Stole $9.3M, Gets 7 Years

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  Too embarrassed to admit that he'd suffered financial reverses and make layoffs, a well-known Arkansas plaintiffs attorney instead admittedly stole $9.3 million from client trust funds he controlled to keep his law firm going. “I built several businesses. I went through a cash-flow crisis,” Steven Eugene Cauley told U.S. District' [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:52pm EST
  

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• Defendant Argues Law Firm’s YouTube Video Amounted to Defamation

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  A company accused in a class action lawsuit of selling a dietary supplement that doesn’t live up to its memory claims has turned the tables on the plaintiffs’ firm, claiming its lawyers gave interviews and posted a YouTube video with defamatory statements. On Friday, the class action defendant, Brain Research [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:34am EST
  

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• ‘The Right Program for Every Student’ Is Not a Contract, Court Tells 2L

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  A transfer student unhappy with his “C” grade in a legal writing course has lost a lawsuit seeking to force New York Law School to change to a pass-fail system. Plaintiff Timothy Keefe claimed he was disadvantaged when New York Law School placed him in Legal Writing II, according to [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:15am EST
  

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