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Labor and Employment

Accused of Peeping Into Tiger Woods’ Medical Records and Fired, Nurse Sues for Defamation

White-Collar Crime

Lawyer Gets 12 Years in $10.6M Mortgage Fraud; Another Attorney Awaits Sentencing

Law Firms

Latest Howrey News: Top Antitrust Partner Is Leaving, Salt Lake City Office to Close

Business of Law

Cadwalader Poaches 6 McDermott Partners; Dozens of Associates Could Follow, WaPo Says

Business of Law

Quarles & Brady Opens First Foreign Office, in Shanghai

Business of Law

Lawyer Acting as Expert Witness Violated Child Porn Law With Court Exhibits, 6th Circuit Rules

Intellecutal Property Law

Artist Claims Bookends Violate His Rights to Balloon Dogs

Court Security

Judge Dismisses Case Against Inmate Accused of Threatening Prosecutors

Obituaries

Jenner Leader Jerold Solovy, ‘Fierce Litigator with the Heart of a Public Servant,’ Dies at Age 80

U.S. Supreme Court

Chief Justice Uses ‘Crafty’ Example in Arguments on Corporate Privacy

Family Law

Lawyer Loses Paternity Case Because Daughter Was Born to Married Couple

Legal Technology

Plaintiff Who Discussed Suit with Lawyer on Work E-Mail Can’t Claim Privilege, Court Says

Women in the Law

Women Lawyers Argue About 15% of Supreme Court’s Cases; Do They Dislike the Verbal Jousting?

Legal Ethics

Disbarred Law Grad Can’t Use ‘JD’ After His Name, Judge Rules

Entertainment & Sports Law

MTV Changes Racy Content in New Show ‘Skins’ Because It Feared a Criminal Violation

Legal Ethics

Liberty Mutual Sues One of Its Contract Lawyers, Claims ‘Sextortion’ Attempt

Layoffs

Goal of Conn. Bill Is to Protect Lawyer Jobs By Deeming Offshore Legal Work UPL

Trials & Litigation

Wife’s Alleged Affair with Top Cop Puts BigLaw Partner on Witness Seat in High-Profile Arson Case

Law Firms

Rainmaker Bunsow’s Exit From Howrey Shifts $20M Book of Business to Dewey, Says BLT

Business of Law

New Dewey San Francisco Office is 2nd Announced in 1 Day to Be Headed by Howrey IP Defector

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