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| FLDS Children Interviewed By Police Without Legal Counsel, Attorney Says | A lawyer for several of the approximately 465 children removed from a Texas ranch run by a religious sect that reportedly advocates polygamy says her clients and others throughout the state are being interviewed by authorities without their attorneys present. While that apparently may be legal, as far as child… |
| ABA President to Replace Magowan as Managing Partner of San Francisco Giants | Peter Magowan is stepping down and ABA President William H. Neukom is stepping up as managing partner and chief executive officer of the San Francisco Giants, it was announced this afternoon. Magowan will retire at the end of the season, and Neukom will take over his management role of the… |
Law.com News
| | Microsoft Lawyers Map Out the Bid for Yahoo | In the days after Microsoft's bid for Yahoo, the players in the merger drama had their legal teams beating the antitrust drums. Google, which hit the blogosphere to bash the deal as anti-competitive, has a team of antitrust veterans. Microsoft, too, has a connected advocate in Charles "Rick" Rule, who worked with Thomas Barnett, the head of Justice's Antitrust Division, while the two were at Covington & Burling. The antitrust lawyers may be key to hammering out a deal -- and their work is cut out for them. |
| $4.1 Million Fees Award Upheld in Kia Class Action | The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld $4.1 million in plaintiffs attorney fees awarded by a Philadelphia judge in a Kia Motors faulty-brake class action. The Superior Court panel found there was no palpable abuse of discretion by Common Pleas Judge Mark I. Bernstein, and echoed his reasoning that the plaintiffs attorneys' award was reasonable considering the rates the defense counsel charged, which topped out at $595 per hour for partners -- rates higher than those requested by plaintiffs' counsel. |
Jurist
| | US military judge postpones Hamdan military commission trial | [JURIST] A military judge Friday delayed the military commission trial of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] until July. On Thursday, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected [order, PDF] a bid by Hamdan to postpone the start of his |
| Malaysia panel alleges conspiracy in judicial fixing scandal | [JURIST] Prominent Malaysian lawyer VK Lingam conspired [The Star report] with allies in government, the judiciary, and business to arrange favorable judicial appointments, a Malaysian government inquiry panel announced Friday. The panel was convened to investigate allegations of judicial fixing |
Google law
| | Barbarella actor Law dies aged 70 - BBC News | |
| Jerry Springer preaches ethics to law school graduates - Chicago Tribune | |
Yahoo law
| | Francona out 2 games after mother-in-law's death (AP via Yahoo! News) | Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona left the team and will miss the first two games of his team's series at Baltimore following the death of his mother-in-law. |
| Many at MBTA retire before new law cuts benefits (Boston Globe) | The MBTA saw an unusual spike in retirements this month, weeks after Governor Deval Patrick signed a law that will reduce some benefits for workers who retire before they turn 65. |
Google legal news
| | Legal victory in US energizes Chinese battery makers - Xinhua | |
| Cherie Blair: it is 'not clear' whether Iraq war was legal - guardian.co.uk | |
Yahoo legal news
| | Legal battle over job reference (BBC News) | A council faces a legal fight over a reference for a woman who became head of another local authority. |
| Cherie demeans the legal profession and must resign over her £1million memoirs, says disgusted judge (Evening Standard) | Cherie Blair should resign as a part-time judge over the "complete lack of decency" in her £1million memoirs, a top legal figure demanded yesterday. Former senior judge Gerald Butler QC accused Mrs Blair of demeaning the legal profession. |
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