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As a specialist in complex commercial litigation, Patricia Lee Refo often uses expert witnesses to explain difficult subjects to juries. A partner at Snell & Wilmer in Phoenix, Refo chaired the ABA’s American Jury Project, which sought to establish uniform ...

How To … offers advice on a variety of subjects related to the management of a law practice. Last week, at the Massachusetts Bar Association’s headquarters in Boston, Cambridge attorney Peter A. Hahn moderated a continuing-legal-education seminar on Business and ...

Connecticut accuses Best Buy: Best Buy, the No. 4 U.S. seller of appliances, misled customers by charging more for products in stores than what it advertised online, according to a suit filed earlier this month by the Connecticut Attorney General ...

Timothy Griffin, who became U.S. attorney in Little Rock, Ark., after the Justice Department fired his predecessor last year, so he could have the job, said he was resigning. Griffin, former aide to White House political adviser Karl Rove, said ...

A unit of Time Warner may owe Beatrice Welles, the daughter of late filmmaker and actor Orson Welles, home video rights to his 1941 movie Citizen Kane as well as profits from the film, a federal appeals court ruled. The ...

Sandra Day O’Connor honored at Oklahoma symposium Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was honored with presentation of the Oklahoma Supreme Court medal at a ceremony during the annual Sovereignty Symposium. Following a Native American smudging ceremony, Justice ...

Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric Co., speaks during an “Ecomagination” news conference May 24 in Los Angeles. GE’s top lawyers sued the company and Immelt, claiming GE paid female executives and attorneys less than ...

Wal-Mart to face class action over pay in New Jersey Wal-Mart Stores, the world’s largest retailer, must face a class action lawsuit by New Jersey workers claiming the company forced them to work through breaks and cheated them of overtime ...

The number of senior judges serving federal appeals courts grew by 63.5 percent in the past 17 years, and the number of authorized judgeships in the same courts grew by just 6.5 percent, according to statistics released by the federal ...