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Patent Troll Predicts Killer Asteroids

Nathan P. Myhrvold belies the usual image of the patent troll, although by most definitions he is one. Myhrvold is […]

Punishment-Doling Judge Overstepped Bounds, Says DOJ

The Justice Department is immediately appealing a federal judge’s order that its lawyers attend ethics courses, saying U.S. District Judge […]

High Court, Absent Scalia, Revives Class Actions

Lawyers for companies hoping to kill class actions for good were optimistic when the Supreme Court’s term began last October, […]

Plaintiff Lawyers Spar Over Uber Settlement

A war of words and battle over clients has erupted, between a Harvard law educated Boston labor lawyer and a […]

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse Survivor Takes Payout, Heads For Syria

A man who survived the collapse of the I-35 Bridge in Minneapolis has taken his settlement money and gone off to join…

Tech Billionaire Admits To Backing Lawsuits Against Gawker

Peter Thiel, a billionaire tech entrepreneur, has revealed that he funded a major damaging lawsuit against Gawker Media, the company […]

Fed Background Checks To Include Social Media History

The Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, has signed a policy expanding the purview of investigators gathering information for a […]

Judges Don’t Have To ‘Know-A-Guy,’ Says Gov

Rhode Island’s Governor tells a columnist that her policy for picking judges will differ from that of her predecessors. A […]

Lawyer’s Suicide Confession Can Stand, Though He Survived

In November 2014 a lawyer who had hit rock bottom – after duping dozens of people, including his parents, in […]

Concussion Lawsuits To Hit Colleges

As many as 50 class action lawsuits are expected to be filed against several college football conferences and numerous colleges, […]

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