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SCOTUS: Employers Lax On 401K Fees Can Be Sued

The Supreme Court has ruled that employers have a continuing duty to monitor fees being charged for products in employees’ […]

Use Of Social Media For Class Notification

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure require that class notice must be “the best notice that is practicable under the […]

Judge Dismisses 100+ Jurors For Lack Of Diversity

An Iowa judge dismissed the entire 112-person jury pool in a case charging a black man with murder, after only […]

Managing Partner And Wife Attacked By Husband Of Fired Lawyer

In a harrowing account, Leo Fisher and his wife Susan Duncan recounted an incident last year when a man forced […]

GOP 2016 Hopeful: POTUS Doesn’t Have To Listen To SCOTUS

Ben Carson, a candidate running for the GOP 2016 Presidential candidate nomination, overstepped his bounds in a recent interview when […]

Lawyer Pleads Guilty For Using Golf Buddy’s Tip In Insider Trading Deal

Lawyer Douglas Parigian has pled guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud based on information shared by a golfing friend. The […]

In-House Lawyer Needn’t Be Naysayer-in-Chief

“Lawyers are trained and expected to be the counterbalance and identify risks so everyone understands what potential ramifications are,” says […]

Lawyers Threatening Client With Arrest Over Fee Dispute Are Convicted of Extortion

Two Tennessee lawyers who threatened a client, saying they would have her arrested unless she paid $50,000 in legal fees, […]

Sotomayor: SCOTUS Justices ‘Can Be Nasty’

That the Supreme Court Justices can be “nasty” to one another is no secret to those reading the Court’s decisions, […]

Small-Time Lawyers Happier, Survey Finds

Money can’t buy happiness, a survey of 6,200 lawyers has shown: according to researchers, public defenders, Legal Aid attorneys, and […]

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