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When it comes to releases, clients may just want the forms – but they also need some instructions. Attorneys need to do more than provide their clients the documents when “deploying” exculpatory agreements, according to a presenter at Civil Trial ...

A driver can be convicted of felony leaving the scene of an accident even if he was not legally responsible for causing the crash and remained at the scene and rendered assistance after the wreck, the Virginia Court of Appeals ...

Doctors at Baltimore’s Franklin Square Hospital Center failed to order follow-up tests and tell a 45-year-old woman about troubling results of two chest X-rays completed a year and a half before she was finally diagnosed with cancer, according to a ...

Is having your name released as a lawyer who loaned money to a judge scandalous? Perhaps, practically speaking, it is. But it doesn’t fall under the “scandalous” and “defamatory” exceptions that keep bankruptcy documents from being made public, an 8th ...

The Kansas City Council is stepping into the traffic ticket conflict by calling for more independence for the prosecutors at the Municipal Court. Council member Deb Hermann said Thursday morning she and other members “have no business” telling City Prosecutor ...

The hypnotically refreshed testimony of a witness in a criminal trial is generally inadmissible, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled. A woman who was sexually assaulted in her home provided a written statement describing her assailant to police but ...

A Wal-Mart employee claims the company retaliated against her after she complained of document mishandling related to an internal probe of former Vice Chairman Thomas M. Coughlin. Rita Miles said in a complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in ...

Nasdaq office settles analyst’s bias claim The Maryland office of the Nasdaq stock market has settled a discrimination claim with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by agreeing to increase a black female employee’s salary and pay her back wages ...

Jury convicts medical supply owner of Medicare fraud The owner of a medical supply business in Kansas City was convicted Wednesday for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare of millions of dollars through a program that pro- vides ...

Under a banner of “excitement,” The Missouri Bar released results Tuesday from a significantly expanded survey evaluating 53 state judges. But the professor who helped the bar create the new survey says it doesn’t go far enough in providing comprehensive ...

Merck & Co. won a new trial to reconsider $51 million in damages awarded to an ex-FBI agent who used its painkiller Vioxx after a judge found the jury verdict was “grossly excessive.” Jurors in New Orleans awarded Gerald Barnett ...