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To Wal-Mart Stores’ top lawyer, Tom Mars, diversity is as important as always low prices. Mars, 49, has built one of the most diverse corporate legal departments in the country, according to Veta Richardson, executive director of the Minority Corporate ...

Canadian civil law allowed the late Keith Magnuson’s family what U.S. law would not — millions from a rental car company that would owe nothing had his accident occurred in the United States. A St. Louis County jury deliberated for ...

The cheapest small-cap stocks in four years are luring equity investors battered by the biggest monthly losses since 2002. Money managers from Raiffeisen Capital Management in Vienna to Highmark Capital Management in San Francisco are snapping up shares of companies ...

Bank of America Corp. is selling two Wyeth paintings to help raise more than $1 million for three New York City nonprofit groups, including a parks restoration project founded by Bette Midler. The second-largest U.S. bank auctioned off four paintings ...

The U.S., the world’s premier immigrant nation, has slipped into one of its periodic bouts of xenophobia, complete with single-issue presidential candidates and congressional funding for a high-tech fence along its 2,000-mile border with Mexico. This debate is as pointless ...

Home prices in the U.S. fell in the third quarter by the most in at least two decades as the subprime lending crisis caused sales to slump. Home values retreated 4.5 percent in the three months through September from the ...

D. Daniel Sokol is a visiting associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law. Prior to his arrival in Missouri, he served as a William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. His research interests ...

MILWAUKEE — An ordinance that limits the sale of alcohol to existing cabarets violates the First Amendment, the 7th Circuit held on Nov. 19. The Village of Washington Park, Ill., has a rather unusual economy. The village derives nearly all ...

DETROIT — With avoidance of malpractice claims in mind, law firms of all sizes are using Deadlines On Demand, an Internet version of the rules-based calendaring service CompuLaw. Deadlines On Demand was designed to help solo practitioners and small firms ...

More American households, faced with an 83 percent increase in heating-oil prices over the past year, are turning to an alternative as old as the Stone Age: wood. While the typical wood stove emits as much as 350 times more ...

Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. is racing to market a diet pill similar to fen-phen, the drug combination prescribed six million times before it was recalled for deadly side effects a decade ago. Fen-phen shed pounds twice as much as a placebo ...