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An attorney dismissed by a client may sue his co-counsel for tortious interference where the dismissal allegedly was caused by co-counsel’s misrepresentations about the attorney’s good name and reputation, a Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled. The defendant co-counsel had argued, ...

Twentieth Century Fox film sued over ‘Borat’ News Corp’s Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. was sued by two men who say they were plied with drink and then asked to sign releases allowing them to be included the movie, ”Borat.’’ ...

Second murder charge filed in August homicide A second person was charged in connection with a shooting that left one dead and a child wounded. Joseph S. Jones, 26, of Kansas City, was charged last week with first-degree murder, first-degree ...

There is no good reason for a law firm not to have a Web site, at least according to Web designer Brendan Chard. “The primary information your Web site needs to include is who you are, why you are great ...

Company agrees to pay the agency an undisclosed amount

Maryland’s grandparent visitation law is unconstitutional as written, a Baltimore County couple recently told the state’s highest court. The Court of Appeals examined the emotionally charged issue of whether a trial court properly ordered Glen and Andrea Koshko to allow ...

Charlottesville, Va., lawyer Steven D. Rosenfield may not get the $25,456.25 he believes he was shorted in the defense of a death row inmate, but he likes to think he had something to do with a new judicial guideline that ...

McDermott to appeal share in $455 million jury verdict McDermott International, a Houston-based petroleum industry engineering company, said it will appeal a subsidiary’s 45 percent share of liability in a $455 million jury award stemming from an Illinois refinery fire. ...

BP Plc, the world’s third largest publicly traded oil company, agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman whose parents died in a Texas refinery explosion that killed 15 and injured hundreds more. BP will pay as much as ...

With eight months remaining in the fiscal year, the Office of the State Public Defender has run out of funds to pay court reporters for the transcripts that are an essential component of the more than 1,000 appeals and petitions ...

An Arizona jury awarded $9 million to two bounty hunters who spent a weekend in jail after being erroneously charged with violating federal gun laws even though Southwest Airlines authorized them to take their guns aboard a flight. The award ...