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In the months since the new bankruptcy reform act became law, more physicians and other high net-worth professionals have been going to their lawyers to review their asset protection plans. The bankruptcy law – which went into effect on Oct. ...

The U.S. Small Business Administration launched MY BIZ for Women, an online tool for finding business research and assistance for women entrepreneurs. The site, http://www.SBA.gov/ women, includes information on starting and growing a small business, gaining access to capital and ...

An increasing number of immigration cases are being litigated at the circuit level – and many immigration lawyers may be ill-prepared for the challenges. The percentage of cases being appealed from the intermediate Board of Immigration Appeals to the circuits ...

For lawyers and journalists, understanding and managing conflict and its outcomes play a key role in their professional lives. With the establishment of the new Center for the Study of Conflict, Law and the Media at the University of Missouri-Columbia, ...

President George W. Bush claims to have found the cure to much of what ails the health care industry: health savings accounts. And banks are eager to administer the vaccine. Health savings accounts permit account holders to put pretax money ...

The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District sent a child support dispute back to the trail court and ordered the court to look at issues it failed to address. A 2004 Platte County Circuit Court judgment awarded Julie ...

Philip Morris has agreed to incorporate protocols aimed at combating the illegal sale of the company’s cigarettes over the Internet and through the mails. The protocols are being adopted voluntarily by Philip Morris pursuant to an agreement reached with 37 ...

A proceeding by a bankruptcy trustee to set aside preferential transfers by a debtor to state agencies is not barred by sovereign immunity, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. The debtor, a bookstore, did business with the state before it ...

For generations, attorneys willing to sacrifice their personal time advanced within their law firms, while lawyers who focused more on a work-life balance lagged behind. But all that is beginning to change as the face of the legal community diversifies. ...

A refusal to apply the Federal Tort Claims Act’s judgment bar to a businesswoman’s Bivens suit is not open to collateral appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. The plaintiff owned her own company, which she operated out of her ...

The Western District Court of Appeals helped clarify what constitutes a statutory employer relationship in the context of personal injury lawsuits. The appellate division reversed and remanded the trial court’s dismissal in Juan Rubio v. Home Depot, U.S.A., rejecting the ...