It’s the 21st Century version of being discovered. In March 2004, a new blog was launched from the perspective of a fictional hiring partner at a large law firm in a major city. Biting, sarcastic and at times painfully insightful ...
Read More »Dog owners sue New Jersey city over aggressive breed ban
The American Dog Owners’ Association has sued Englewood, N.J., over an ordinance banning specific breeds of “overly aggressive” dog. Plaintiffs Natalie Wells and Mia Rodriguez claim the city ordinance violates the New Jersey Vicious and Potentially Dangerous Dog Act, which ...
Read More »Judge files suit after council attempts to remove her
A judge in Texas has filed a lawsuit against the Dallas City Council for removing her from the bench because she was running for public office. Dallas Municipal Court Judge Elizabeth Davis Frizell is a Democratic candidate for judge of ...
Read More »Winning essay recalls life-changing phone call
It was an essay that wrote itself for the most part. Sean O’Brien’s 600-word “Finding Redemption – How Picking Up the Phone Can Change a Lawyer’s Life” detailed the last time he spoke to his friend Doyle Williams, a man ...
Read More »St. Louis jury clears American Airlines in discrimination case
American Airlines did not fire ex-employee Lamonte Young because he was black, a St. Louis County jury decided Thursday afternoon. Young, a fleet service clerk for American Airlines operations at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, was terminated in October 2001 for ...
Read More »Oregon features what developers call 'first courthouse of the 21st century'
An expansive, soaring, glass-and-steel structure on the banks of the Wilamette River in downtown Eugene, Ore., makes Alan Halleck, a project manager for J.E. Dunn Construction Northwest, gush. “This has been a great, once-in-a-lifetime, career project for me,” Halleck said. ...
Read More »Maryland reverses second attempted murder verdict
The Maryland Court of Appeals has reversed the attempted murder convictions of a man who shot and injured people other than his intended victim, holding that the Court of Special Appeals should have recognized the trial court’s plain error in ...
Read More »Overland Park company settles suit
A New York investor settled with the owners of two air cargo centers in St. Louis and Kansas City on Tuesday, halting an in-progress jury trial on the case in St. Louis County Circuit Court this week. Attorneys had given ...
Read More »Challenge to Oklahoma, federal marriage bans survives recent ruling
A federal lawsuit filed in 2004 by four women challenging the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act and the Oklahoma ban on gay marriage is moving ahead after a recent ruling in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District ...
Read More »Court clerk can't intervene in gay marriage case
Eight state legislators and a court clerk lacked the right to intervene with their own private counsel in a Baltimore City Circuit Court case that ultimately struck down Maryland’s one-man, one-woman definition of marriage as unconstitutional, the state’s highest court ...
Read More »St. Louis attorney files suit over representation fees
St. Louis attorney John J. Allan is suing the federal government for payment of attorney fees arising out of his representation of a construction company in a dispute related to the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in downtown St. Louis. ...
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