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William L. Hungate, a former district judge, congressman and jazz singer known for his wit, died at a Chesterfield hospital Friday from complications related to brain surgery. He was 84. Visitation will be today from 4-8 p.m. at Mudd-Veach Funeral ...

Lawsuits against an attorney-rating Web site and allegedly derogatory postings about female students on a law school admission discussion board raise questions about the legal protections Web sites and blogs can expect from evolving Internet law. Some attorneys have objected ...

Managing partners of large U.S. law firms are predicting a slowdown in profits this year because of rising pay for salaried lawyers and the cost of attracting and retaining attorneys, a survey found. “After a first quarter that saw revenues ...

Merck to pay $4 million in fees, costs in Vioxx case Merck & Co., the drug maker defending 27,000 suits by users of now-withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, must pay about $4 million in lawyers fees and costs in the case of ...

U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy proposed cutting subsidies to college-loan providers by $18.3 billion and using the savings to increase aid for low-income students. Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, would reduce payments including one that guarantees a certain rate of return to ...

Claudia Krcmarik can’t get documents about her father-in-law’s death during a medical study. Meryl Nass keeps asking for records she thinks will show an anthrax vaccine is dangerous. The American Bakers Association’s request for a paper on the safety of ...

The U.S. government spends 12 percent of its health budget on diabetes care, spread across at least 18 agencies, according to the first report to add up the disease’s costs throughout the government. The $79.7 billion spent on treating diabetes ...

Hedge-fund and private-equity managers, already under congressional scrutiny for the lower tax rate they pay on their profits, may also be targeted for a strategy they use to pay less on their management fees. Congressional aides say the Senate Finance ...

A House subcommittee approved legislation that would give U.S. regulators new power to oversee drug safety by ordering changes on pharmaceutical labels and forcing drugmakers to conduct studies of products after they’re on the market. The legislation, approved on a ...

Hedge-fund and private-equity managers, already under congressional scrutiny for the lower tax rate they pay on their profits, may also be targeted for a strategy they use to pay less on their management fees. Congressional aides say the Senate Finance ...