You’ve read text book upon text book on just about everything relating to the law. You’ve devoted countless hours to studying for exams. You’ve deservedly earned the degree. You’re ready for anything. Or are you? Though law school prepares attorneys ...
Read More »Michelin wins wrongful death case
After a little more than an hour of deliberations a Jackson County jury on Monday afternoon found for the defendant in a wrongful death case against Michelin North America. The jury was instructed to determine whether the company manufactured a ...
Read More »MLB heads to court over stats
Lawyers USA Dolan Media Newswires Player statistics have long been baseball’s lifeblood, a vast and free-flowing commodity energizing endless discussions among the game’s most ardent fans. But tradition notwithstanding, Major League Baseball has decided that unfettered use of player statistics ...
Read More »Law grads work out reality of salary offers
The Journal Record Dolan Media Newswires Newly minted attorneys think their degree is worth a lot – and it is, but some question law grads’ salary expectations for entry-level jobs. Oklahoma City attorney Phil Busey said he had interviewed prospective ...
Read More »St. Louis jury finds doctor responsible in malpractice suit
St. Louis Daily Record Dolan Media Newswires A medical malpractice suit that churned on in St. Louis County court for nearly two weeks ended Thursday afternoon with a jury verdict that found an attending physician primarily at fault for a ...
Read More »Parties reach settlement in St. Louis employment suit
St. Louis Daily Record Dolan Media Newswires A St. Louis City jury was told to go home Thursday after two parties in an employment discrimination suit unexpectedly reached a compromise. The confidential settlement came two days into trial, just as ...
Read More »Hotel trial addresses loan responsibility
The developer behind the renovation of the President Hotel testified last week that an attorney at a Cleveland-based law firm nearly cost him the project. Ron Jury, president of Overland Park-based Jury & Associates, claimed Sanders, Squire & Dempsey and ...
Read More »Language experts try to bring meaning to courtroom talks
One word can be the difference between a guilty verdict and an acquittal. That’s the message court interpreter Marta Goldstein hopes to spread. She recently gave a presentation to the Maryland State Bar Association’s annual meeting. “This is serious,” she ...
Read More »Appeals court: Judge must assign new plan
When the children of divorced parents are moved out of state, the judge allowing the relocation at the least must finalize findings that the move is in the children’s best interest, the Western District Court of Appeals ruled last week. ...
Read More »Hiker convicted of murder after ruling doesn't apply new law
A retired school teacher was found guilty of second-degree murder in Coconino County, Ariz., on June 14, just days after a failed attempt in the Arizona Supreme Court to have the effects of a recently passed self-defense bill retroactively applied ...
Read More »Debate examines Fair Tax as national cure-all
Americans for a Fair Tax say their proposal – essentially a national retail sales tax – would lower prices, increase productivity, reduce outsourcing and lower the tax burden on the middle class, as well as eliminate illegal immigration, the Internal ...
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