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• Lawyer Under Fire for Using Dud Grenade in Closing

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  Sheriff's officers are investigating a Kansas attorney for criminal use of explosives after they learned he used a dead grenade as a prop during his closing statements at a trial Monday. Lawyer Sam Kepfield pulled the dud grenade out to make a point in a forgery and theft case against [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:44pm EST
  

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• DOJ Drops All Money-Laundering Charges Against Miami Lawyer

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  Federal prosecutors asked Wednesday to dismiss the drug money-laundering case against Miami criminal defense lawyer Ben Kuehne. "I have had throughout a deep and abiding belief that things would turn out well in the end,'' Kuehne said in a statement provided to the Miami Herald. "However, I did not know [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:32pm EST
  

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• Bankruptcies Up 34 Percent; Lawyers Observe Health Care Cost Impact

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  The number of federal bankruptcy cases is up more than 34 percent for the 12 months ending Sept. 30—the end of the federal judiciary's fiscal year—than it was for the prior 12 months, according to statistics released today. Business filings are up 52 percent over 2008 (58,271 from 38,651) while [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:07pm EST
  

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• Candid Comments from Casey Anthony’s Lawyer: ‘Do That Barack Obama Thing’

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  A death-penalty lawyer on Casey Anthony’s defense team had some candid comments about death penalty closing arguments in an Orlando appearance last year. Lawyer Andrea Lyon talked about pro death-penalty “killer” jurors, and how lawyers can appeal to those who are willing to spare their client by using emotional words [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:28pm EST
  

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• Judge Cites Tough ‘New Era’ in Conflicts Cases as She Sentences Ex-DOJ Lawyer

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  Former Justice Department lawyer Robert Coughlin cried in court Tuesday as he apologized to a judge for accepting gifts from a lobbyist friend while working on legislative affairs in the Justice Department. Coughlin could have been sentenced to six months in jail. Instead he was sentenced to a month in [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:07am EST
  

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• Lateral Recruiting Blog Lists More Than 150 Job Openings

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  A legal career consultant is scouring job openings listed on the websites of the nation’s top 100 law firms and posting them on her new blog, RecruiterEsq.com. Melissa Sachs, a former lawyer and former recruiter, has posted more than 150 lateral openings on her blog, according to Legal Blog Watch. They [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:33am EST
  

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• The Cost of a Law Firm Layoff: Multiply Senior Lawyer’s Salary by Five

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  Law firms are laying off lawyers with an eye toward cost savings. But Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli says there are also costs associated with a “brain drain” and they can amount to about five years’ salary for the layoff of just one senior lawyer. Speaking in an interview with [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:00am EST
  

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• Florida Bar Investigating Four Lawyers from Rothstein Firm

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  The Florida Bar is investigating four lawyers from the dissolved South Florida firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler amid an investigation into an alleged $1 billion Ponzi scheme by name partner Scott Rothstein. Rothstein has voluntarily surrendered his law license. Now the bar is investigating four other RRA lawyers, according to the [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:12am EST
  

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• FBI Raids Offices of ‘Flashy Financier,’ a Former Ice Miller Lawyer

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  The FBI has raided the offices of an Indianapolis lawyer-turned-financier who was featured on the CNBC feature “Rise of the Super Rich.” The FBI raided two businesses of “flamboyant lawyer” Timothy Durham: Obsidian Enterprises in Indianapolis and Fair Financial in Akron, Ohio, the Indianapolis Star reports. The article says Durham [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:56am EST
  

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• Court Fines Insurer & Lawyer for Appealing Duty to Defend

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  An insurance company that not only refused its contractual duty to defend a policyholder but appealed a trial court's ruling that the duty to defend was not a close case has been hit with a $2,500 sanction by a Georgia appellate court. And Atlanta attorney Dennis Brown of Buckley Brown [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:34pm EST
  

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• Indicted Defense Lawyer Makes Unusual Filing in Civil SEC Case

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  A 56-year-old Georgia securities law practitioner and another man have been criminally charged in federal court in North Carolina concerning an alleged interstate investment fraud. But that shouldn't prevent defense lawyer Gregory Bartko from continuing to represent a client in a claimed $53 million civil fraud case in federal court' [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:17pm EST
  

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• Meet William Marler, a Food Safety Lawyer Hungry for Change

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  Young and "extremely overconfident," William Marler took a leading role in his first food-borne illness case when he was only five years out of law school. But news coverage about his severely injured 9-year-old client helped persuade another 200 alleged victims of a fast food restaurant in Washington state to [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:08pm EST
  

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• Lawyer Sues Homeless Center, Says Disheveled People Scare Away His Tenants

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  A Houston lawyer has sued a homeless center and church, claiming “disheveled individuals” attracted by offers of free meals and services are scaring away his tenants and hurting the value of his building. Lawyer Harry Arthur claims The Beacon day center for homeless people is a public nuisance, and he’s [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:50pm EST
  

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• 9th Circuit Upholds Ban on Class Actions by Legal Aid Lawyers

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  A federal appeals court has upheld restrictions on legal aid lawyers funded by the Legal Services Corp., including a ban on filing class actions. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the rules, enacted along with LSC budgets each year since 1996, in an opinion on Monday, [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:47am EST
  

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• Judge Warns Lawyers for Blackwater Defendants About Single Spacing

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  A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has put lawyers for five Blackwater Worldwide contractors on notice that their failure to double space won’t be tolerated. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina wrote in a short notice filed on Monday that the lawyers submitted a legal memorandum in single-space type, according to [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:25am EST
  

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• Too Embarrassed to Make Layoffs, Lawyer Stole $9.3M, Gets 7 Years

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  Too embarrassed to admit that he'd suffered financial reverses and make layoffs, a well-known Arkansas plaintiffs attorney instead admittedly stole $9.3 million from client trust funds he controlled to keep his law firm going. “I built several businesses. I went through a cash-flow crisis,” Steven Eugene Cauley told U.S. District' [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:52pm EST
  

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• What In-House Counsel Want: Relationship Building and Quick Answers

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  Sometimes legal costs aren’t the most important thing to in-house counsel selecting their outside lawyers. In-house lawyers also want law firms that are willing to take the initiative to build the relationship, according to a National Law Journal report on a recent panel discussion in Boston. The panel at the [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:42pm EST
  

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• US Says $10M in Rothstein Ponzi Cash Paid Law Firm Salaries; Bugatti Seized

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  An amended forfeiture filing alleges that proceeds from an alleged Ponzi scheme operated by South Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein helped finance his law firm, Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler. The amended filing by the Miami U.S. attorney's office says the now-dissolved law firm earned about $8 million in one recent year, but [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:08pm EST
  

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• A Peek at the New BusinessWeek

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  Somebody sent me a Bloomberg story that ran today on Andrew Cuomo, New York's attorney general and a rising star in the Democratic party, describing how Cuomo took cash from lawyers with business before his office.
  
  It's a great piece, and it occurred to me that this kind [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:30am EST
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• Defendant Argues Law Firm’s YouTube Video Amounted to Defamation

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  A company accused in a class action lawsuit of selling a dietary supplement that doesn’t live up to its memory claims has turned the tables on the plaintiffs’ firm, claiming its lawyers gave interviews and posted a YouTube video with defamatory statements. On Friday, the class action defendant, Brain Research [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:34am EST
  

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• Oral Argument in Wesley Snipes Case

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  Previously granted oral argument (see here), lawyers for Wesley Snipes appeared in the 11th Circuit this past week to argue the case. A report of the argument sounded like it was a "hot" bench with questions regarding the venue and... [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:47am EST
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• Jury Says Philip Morris Must Pay $300M to Longtime Smoker

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  A jury in South Florida says Philip Morris USA must pay $300 million, including $244 million in punitive damages, to a 25-year Benson & Hedges smoker who argued that the cigarette company committed fraud by concealing the dangers of smoking from her. Lawyers for Lucinda "Cindy" Naugle, who is a [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:15pm EST
  

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• Fieger Firm Agrees to Pay $131K to Resolve FEC Contributions Probe

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  The law firm of Michigan trial lawyer Geoffrey Fieger will pay $131,000 to resolve a probe by the Federal Election Commission, an amount that pales in comparison to the potential fine if commissioners had found a knowing violation of finance laws. The payment will resolve an FEC probe into contributions [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:45pm EST
  

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• Don’t Cry for Me, New York: A Disbarred Civil Rights Lawyer Goes to Jail

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  Disbarred civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart had a few words for her followers on Thursday before she surrendered to begin serving her 28-month prison sentence for helping an imprisoned terrorist communicate with his followers. As she walked toward the courthouse, Stewart recalled a labor organizer executed in 1915 after a [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:42am EST
  

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• Judge Scolds Lawyers for Document Blizzard: ‘You Wouldn’t Do This to a Jury’

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  U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell has endured 25 days of testimony in Oklahama’s pollution case against the poultry industry, but it’s the blizzard of paperwork that is really fraying his nerves. On Thursday, the Tulsa judge scolded a group of about 30 lawyers in Oklahoma’s case for blanketing him with [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:14am EST
  

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• Law Departments Cut Costs by Squeezing Law Firms, Freezing Staff Pay

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  Companies are trying to cut their legal budgets, and it’s affecting in-house lawyers whose salaries are frozen and outside law firms asked to reduce rates and offer alternatives to hourly rates. Alternative fees have been touted as the up-and-coming way to reduce outside legal costs. But law departments are trying [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:30am EST
  

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• Struggling South Florida Divorce Lawyers Offer Discounts, Accept Credit Cards

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  Business is off by as much as 35 percent for some South Florida divorce lawyers, spurring discounted rates and creative payment plans. The economy is forcing many lower-income couples to put off divorce, lawyers tell the Miami Herald. Sometimes a couple can’t afford to live independently, or one spouse relies [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:09am EST
  

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• Unemployed NY Lawyers Could Benefit from London Firm’s Outsourcing

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  Eight of London’s top law firms are considering outsourcing some of their legal work, and another eight already send some legal work outside. But the news isn’t all bad for lawyers. Allen & Overy’s contract with Integreon for document review sends some of its work to India—and some to New [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:39am EST
  

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• Concerned Divorce Lawyer Follows Client, Witnesses Shooting Aftermath

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  A concerned divorce lawyer following her client home after a consultation watched in horror as the woman tumbled from the car, shot by her husband who was hiding in the back seat. The client, Ashley Kendall, was reported in critical condition, the Oregonian reports. Oregon lawyer Sharon Mitchell was so [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:04am EST
  

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• Skadden Jumps on the Bonus Bandwagon

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  Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has announced its associate bonuses, and they match the lower amounts being paid at two other law firms. Associate bonuses at Skadden will range from $7,500 to $30,000, according to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the American Lawyer and Above the Law. Last year, [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:25am EST
  

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