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Phoenix EEOC Lawyer Chosen as General Counsel – The BLT: The Blog …

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

A supervising trial attorney in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Phoenix, Ariz., office has been chosen to be the agency’s next general counsel. P Continue reading →

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Lawyer's Lament: Pressure to Review 80 Docs an Hour, for $23 an …

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

A contract lawyer’s complaint about a directive to review 80 documents an hour is raising questions about whether quantity sacrifices quality. The lawyer , who was being paid about $23 an hour for the document review project, … Continue reading →

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Lawyer who Badmouthed His Client Gave a 'Brilliant' Argument …

Posted on January 27, 2012 by admin

Supreme Court justices differed Tuesday over the trial strategy of a criminal defense lawyer who called his neo-Nazi client “demented” and invited jurors to “smell the death” of the murder scene. The defendant, Frank Spisak, … Continue reading →

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Lawyer Fined $100 for Getting a Case Citation Wrong | ABA Journal …

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

A Wisconsin lawyer has been fined $100 for getting a citation wrong in a brief submitted to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. The appeals court expressed its frustration in a footnote to an unpublished opinion, Espitia v. Continue reading →

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Lawyer Loses Unemployment Cash Because of $1.30 in Daily Blog …

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

The state of New York has cut off unemployment benefits for a 2008 law grad after she reported collecting $1.30 a day in advertising income from her blog. The lawyer , who allowed only her first name of Karin to be used, … Continue reading →

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Meet Orly Taitz: Lawyer, Dentist and Birther in 'Alice in …

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

Lawyer Orly Taitz’s lawsuit challenging President Obama’s right to hold office has so provoked a federal judge that he compared her crusade to Alice in Wonderland. Yet Taitz has emerged by some accounts as the most visible face of the … Continue reading →

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Lawyer Blogger Settles Defamation Suit After Favorable Ruling on …

Posted on January 7, 2012 by

A former in-house lawyer sued for his blog comments about an intellectual property litigator has settled after a favorable ruling during his defamation trial in Texas. Rick Frenkel and his former employer, Cisco Systems, apologized for … Continue reading →

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Electronic Trail Reveals Lawyer Resumé Lies, Costing Job …

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

Wrong dates or an inflated work history has cost more than one lawyer a shot at a new job. Legal recruiters Deborah Ben-Canaan and Martha Fay Africa say resumé fraud is easier to catch in the electronic age, according to their article … Continue reading →

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Judge Labels Lawyer's Motion Nearly Incomprehensible, Marks Up …

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

A federal judge irked at grammatical and typographical errors in a motion for dismissal has blasted the Florida lawyer who filed it and ordered him to copy his client on the criticism. US District Judge Gregory Presnell denied the … Continue reading →

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PlanetAlbany: Lawyers for lawyer

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Vice President Joe Biden, from the faux-working man wing of the Democratic Party, is attending a fund-raiser for NY-23 congressional candidate Bill Owens, who was Republican Sen. Continue reading →

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