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Martin Feldstein, an economist at Harvard University and the president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, speaks during an interview outside Jackson Lake Lodge in Teton National Park near Jackson Hole, Wyo. on Aug. 31. “I think there’s a ...

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 ...

Those who file multiple lawsuits often cite frustration over years spent battling with poorly designed bathrooms and parking lots, even 17 years after the ADA took effect. iStock photo BALTIMORE — Jeri Wasco, who has cerebral palsy and uses a ...

MILWAUKEE — If a federal court sanctions you under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(c), the last thing you want to do is argue that, as an attorney, you cannot be sanctioned under the rule. A host of Illinois attorneys ...

MINNEAPOLIS — After fighting over a waffle iron for three weeks, Minneapolis family law attorney Theresa A. Capistrant had had enough, ultimately deciding to end her representation of the client who insisted on the battle. “I just wasn’t willing to ...

The number of Americans entering into contracts to buy previously owned homes plunged in July by the most since records began in 2001, worsening the two-year housing recession. The National Association of Realtors’ index of signed purchase agreements dropped 12.2 ...

Investors looking for safety from declines in the mortgage and corporate bond markets may find it in the path of a hurricane. Catastrophe bonds, which investors buy to bet against natural disasters such as a $100 billion hurricane striking Miami, ...

The number of American children diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a mental illness, jumped 40-fold from 1994 to 2003, affecting 1 in 100 kids, according to a study in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Of the 800,000 people ages 19 and ...

Drug-coated stents were linked to a higher death rate when given to people with a certain type of heart attack in a study, a finding that may limit doctors’ use of the tiny mesh tubes to prop open arteries. The ...

BALTIMORE — Jeri Wasco, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, visited a Hyattsville shopping center recently and found curb ramps that were too steep and no elevators going to the second floor. She filed a federal lawsuit last ...

From left to right, Fields & Brown attorneys Sharon Ivy, James Gore and Cal Cunningham. All three joined the firm as a result of the Heartland Diversity Legal Job Fair. Photo by Scott Lauck Without the Heartland Diversity Legal Job ...