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The American Bar Association announced that Seattle lawyer William H. Neukom, chair of Preston Gates & Ellis LLP in Seattle, has been nominated to become president-elect of the American Bar Association. The ABA House of Delegates will vote on his ...

While another portion of a downtown street closes, two others have reopened. The Wyandotte Street Bridge, which crosses I-670 from 14th Street to 16th Street, closed Thursday morning for its demolition this weekend. The closure will remain in effect until ...

An Iowa-based provider of safety and training products has come up with a dictionary that makes it easier to decipher the sometimes-confusing lingo of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Mangan Communication’s OSHA Dictionary contains “terms and definitions from the ...

Organic food hasn’t really gone anywhere. But the one-upmanship that makes things that are good fall aside for things that are better is inherent in the replacement of “organic” with “local” as the latest best thing. Green building’s not going ...

Throughout southern Louisiana, three primary contractors are leading a $1.5-billion demolition and debris removal operation in the wake of last year’s hurricanes. That’s seemingly enough money to make everyone in the Louisiana construction industry happy. Not so. Derrell Cohoon, CEO ...

The new prescription drug labeling rule from the Food and Drug Administration asserts that if a label meets the agency’s requirements, state law failure-to-warn suits over the drug’s risks are preempted – but plaintiffs’ lawyers have vowed to fight. The ...

Pregnancy discrimination is a continuing problem for women in the workplace, according to both employment attorneys and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s statistics. The reasons for this are varied. Ernie Haffner, an attorney in the EEOC’s Washington, D.C., Office ...

Emotional distress damages are not recoverable under the Family and Medical Leave Act, the 8th Circuit has ruled. The plaintiff worked as an administrative analyst at a city fire department. She applied for FMLA leave for medical reasons, including fibromyalgia. ...

Valentine’s Day brings in a rush for the florists, confectioners and card makers, but it can also make for a busy time in the family law arena as well. With people entering into second and third marriages, first-timers putting off ...

In a massive settlement that includes groundbreaking disclosure rules for clinical trial information, one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical companies has agreed to pay $185 million in a class action securities fraud lawsuit. As part of the settlement over the ...

A provision barring the use of federal gun trace data in civil lawsuits could derail a number of lawsuits against gun manufacturers and dealers, including a major case filed by New York City. The gun industry-backed rider was included in ...