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Tough economic times are making law firms of all sizes closely assess the economics of every existing business practice. They seek opportunities to complete tasks more efficiently, and when possible, at lower costs.

In this April 1993, photo, Anita Hill is seen in Cambridge, Mass.

Lady Luck can be fickle.

Next Tuesday some of us will go out there and vote whether we like it or not.

While the emergence of tea party candidates is getting headlines in this fall’s midterm elections, another trend with free-speech implications has popped up, as well — candidates and supporters going to court, not just the ballot box, to challenge opponents’ ads and claims.

A federal judge in Pensacola, Fla., gave enemies of the national health care reform law reason to rejoice last week when he said it looks sort of unconstitutional.

At the recent county bar association meeting, I was introduced to an apparently common practice that I believe soon will be lost to this profession.

What were banking regulators doing while some of the biggest U.S. lenders routinely filed false foreclosure documents in local courthouses around the country? In the case of IndyMac Federal Bank, it turns out the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was running the joint.

Hawking counterfeit CDs out of a corner barbershop is hardly the stuff of Blackbeard the Pirate.

When duped investors set out to make themselves whole after a fleecing by a broker, the American way is to hustle them off to a private court run by Wall Street. It’s a tradition that was set in stone when the Supreme Court in 1987 said that, if an investor signed an agreement to arbitrate, the sorry loser is out of luck if he ever wants a day in court.

Jason Grodensky paid cash for a South Florida home last December. With no mortgage and full ownership, he had no fear of foreclosure.