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In the real world, it takes about a week for someone who has disgraced himself like radio talk-show host Don Imus to lose his job. In Washington, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales hang on to ...

Attorney Willie Gary and his legal team will get $22.9 million out of the $38 million he asked from Motorola, a judge ruled. The Florida attorney had requested Motorola pay him $11,000 an hour for his work on a case ...

Moving offices to a distant locale is one of the most stressful events a company can experience. You will likely lose employees, who for personal reasons will choose not to make the move, and you will have to recruit and ...

Ex-White House lawyer returns to Texas law firm Former White House Counsel Harriet Miers will return to Locke Liddell & Sapp, the Dallas-based law firm said. Miers stepped down as White House counsel in January. Miers will join Locke Liddell’s ...

California sued the Bush administration for its records of meetings with automakers that preceded federal regulators’ decision that U.S. law preempted California’s carbon emission reduction rules. California Attorney General Jerry Brown said in a complaint filed April 11 in Oakland ...

A Montana man was sentenced to 27 months in prison for fraudulently taking $307,103 from lawyers whose clients included Maurice Greenberg, former chief executive officer of American International Group. Michael Lair, 46, claimed to be an executive of a firm ...

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The “Wal-Mart” health-care bill has been put to rest, but advocates still plan to push for an employer-responsibility provision when lawmakers take on health care reform. Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler said Monday he would not ask the Supreme Court ...

Verizon accused of neglecting repairs: New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo accuses a Verizon Communications subsidiary of chronically slow telephone repair service and asked a state agency to set strict rules requiring rebates for poor service. Cuomo’s office analyzed data ...

As one judge prepares to leave his seat in Jackson County today and a resolution to weaken the judiciary’s power awaits approval in the state House, Missouri judges say they have become the Legislature’s punching bag. From accusations of activism ...

Kentucky company sues Google over search patent Google, owner of the most-used Internet search engine, was sued by a Kentucky company over a patented method of using Web links. ILOR, which runs the social search engine PreFound.com, obtained a patent ...