Dec 1, 2012

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Pentagon lawyer: War on terror not endless
Huffington Post
LONDON — The war on terror is not an endless conflict and the U.S. is approaching a "tipping point" after which the military fight against al-Qaida will be replaced by a law enforcement and intelligence operation, the Pentagon's top lawyer has said.
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South Africa rights lawyer Arthur Chaskalson, who defended Mandela at trial ...
Washington Post
JOHANNESBURG — Arthur Chaskalson, a civil rights lawyer who once helped defend Nelson Mandela and later became South Africa's chief justice, has died. He was 81. South Africa's presidency confirmed Chaskalson's death Saturday. The state-owned ...
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Yoselyn Ortega's Lawyer Describes Client as Pathetic and Debilitated during ...
Gather.com
Ortega's attorney said that her client "is a pathetic woman" who didn't want the press present. The request to have the press kept away, however, was denied. The lawyer argued, "She's lying in a hospital bed. She has a neck brace, and her hand that you ...
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Jordan Davis Lawyer: 'It's Not About Race'
The Root
Following the shooting of Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old black teen, by Michael Dunn, a white man, in Florida, the attorney for the slain young man's family says this case is not about race. Instead, according to MSNBC, lawyer John Phillips said it's ...
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Associate's Failure to Keep Secrets a Cautionary Tale for Young Lawyers
The American Lawyer
While neither agency identifies either the name of the lawyer (the Justice Department calls him "Attorney-1" and the SEC uses the term "Associate") or firm in question, The Am Law Daily reported at the time that Armonk, New York-based IBM had turned to ...
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Lindsay Lohan's Lawyer Says She's The Victim, Legit Case Or BS?
Cinema Blend
It's been a horrendous week for Lindsay Lohan. Just days after the starlet's performance in Liz & Dick was savaged by the majority of critics, she was arrested Thursday morning in New York City for fighting a noted psychic, allegedly over a ...
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Cinema Blend
Kim Kardashian Is 'Still Handcuffed' to Kris Humphries, Lawyer Claims
Business 2 Community
Kim Kardashian and Brooklyn Nets star Kris Humphries are still married, according to People. Almost a year after the divorce papers were filed to end the 72-day union, the reality television mega-star is demanding a trial as soon as possible ...
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Business 2 Community
Sedgwick County judge, lawyer nominated for Kansas Court of Appeals
Kansas.com
TOPEKA — Sedgwick County District Judge Anthony Powell and attorney Stephen Kerwick of Eastborough are among three nominees submitted to the governor Friday to fill an open seat on the state Court of Appeals. The third nominee is Dennis Depew, ...
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Eastern Shore poultry pollution trial winds up
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Jane Barrett, the lawyer for the Waterkeeper Alliance, told U.S. District Judge William M. Nickerson that the New York-based environmental group had amassed overwhelming evidence during more than two weeks of testimony in October that chicken manure ...
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Strauss-Kahn Discussed Settling Maid's Suit, His Lawyers Say
San Francisco Chronicle
30 (Bloomberg) -- Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has discussed resolving a lawsuit brought by a hotel maid who accused him of attempted rape and may have a deal in a few days, his lawyers said. One of the lawyers, ...
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Referee's lawyer says justice served by dismissal of murder case
WCSH-TV
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Professional tennis referee Louis Goodman says she now feels like she's being treated fairly. She'd been charged with murder in the death of her husband -- but prosecutors today dropped the case, saying there wasn't enough evidence ...
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MAYOR IS ASKING FOR OUTSIDE LAWYER
U-T San Diego
Oceanside Mayor Jim Wood said Friday that he's asking the City Council to appoint an outside lawyer to advise him in a dispute with the city's three-member council majority over his spot on a regional transportation agency. Wood said he asked City ...
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Duran's Lawyer Asks Landavazo Campaign Manager to 'Cease and Desist'
WEHOville (blog)
The temperature in the already heated campaign for the West Hollywood City Council has risen another degree with a challenge by council incumbent John Duran and his lawyer to candidate Chris Landavazo's campaign manager. An Oct. 19 letter from ...
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US demands Iran release hunger-striking human rights lawyer
Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday demanded that Iran free jailed human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, who it said has been on hunger strike for more than six weeks, and sharply criticized Iranian authorities for their treatment of ...
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Lawyer wants assault charges against Minneapolis cop dismissed
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Assault charges against Minneapolis SWAT team leader David Clifford should be dismissed because a detective attempted to induce witnesses to change statements, according to motions filed Friday by Clifford's lawyer. Attorney Fred Bruno will formally ...
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Concord lawyer writes thriller about a NH prosecutor gone rogue
Concord Monitor
For 39 years, there were novels in Chris Casko's imagination just waiting to come to life. But Casko never wrote one – he lacked the time and discipline. But in January 2009, Casko – an attorney for the state of New Hampshire who's served on the ...
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Lawyer convicted in mortgage fraud case
Albany Times Union
ALBANY — An Albany attorney implicated in a massive mortgage fraud scheme involving dozens of Capital Region properties was convicted Friday of conspiracy and bank fraud charges at his trial in U.S. District Court in Syracuse. Michael Bouchard, 49 ...
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Aussie lawyer on panel to probe Armstrong
SBS
An investigation panel examining the International Cycling Union's links to the Lance Armstrong doping case will include and Australian lawyer and British Paralympic great Tanni Grey-Thompson. The UCI said on Friday that the three-member independent ...
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SBS
No Strauss-Kahn deal with maid -lawyer
Sky News Australia
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former IMF chief, has discussed a settlement with a Manhattan maid accusing him of sexual assault, but hasn't reached a deal, his lawyers says. 'The parties have discussed a resolution but there has been no ...
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Warren lawyer is suspended for 18 months
Warren Tribune Chronicle
WARREN - The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday suspended the law license of Warren attorney John H. Large for two years, with the final six months of that term stayed on certain conditions. The court announced on its website the suspension was for ...
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War on al Qaeda is not indefinite: Pentagon lawyer
Yahoo! News (blog)
The Defense Department's highest-ranking lawyer, Jeh Johnson, predicted al Qaeda would some day be so "effectively destroyed" that the United States would no longer say it is in an armed conflict. A text of his remarks to be given at Oxford University ...
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Blind Chinese lawyer's nephew jailed for 3 years
Straits Times
Chen Kegui, nephew of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, is seen in this undated handout provided by Chen Kegui's lawyer to Reuters May 22, 2012. The United States is deeply disturbed that the nephew of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng ...
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Straits Times
Sarah stuck in legal limbo
Tasmania Mercury
IT'S looking increasingly likely that the parents of Sarah Armstrong will be spending Christmas without her, as the Tasmanian lawyer's detention in Mongolia shows no sign of being resolved. Ms Armstrong, a lawyer for Rio Tinto subsidiary SouthGobi ...
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Energy Department Lawyer Named GC for University of Michigan
The BLT: Blog of Legal Times (blog)
U.S. Department of Energy deputy general counsel for litigation and enforcement Timothy Lynch has been named general counsel of the University of Michigan. Lynch, who since April 2010 has led DOE's litigation efforts and served as the point person for ...
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Lohan's victim hires celebrity lawyer
Sky News Australia
Lindsay Lohan's alleged assault victim Tiffany Mitchell has hired celebrity civil rights lawyer Gloria Allred following their fight in a New York nightclub on Thursday morning. Fortune teller Ms Mitchell - who has already pressed criminal charges ...
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Sky News Australia
Agent acted properly, lawyer says
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
State Department agent Christopher Deedy was not drunk and was acting as a federal law enforcement officer when he fatally shot an intoxicated and violent man at a McDonald's Waikiki restaurant last year, Deedy's lawyers said in court papers filed in ...
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Shooting of women hit in breast implants should be ruled accidental, lawyer ...
Toronto Sun
The shooting of a woman who says her breast implants saved her from serious harm should be ruled an accident, a defence lawyer said Friday. But Crown prosecutor Britta Kristensen said Fernando (Frank) Chora's claim he shot his ex-girlfriend with his ...
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Meningitis outbreak: Cases moved from state to federal court
The Tennessean
Lawyers for the drug compounding firm blamed for a deadly nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis are moving forward with a strategy to get the growing number of lawsuits consolidated in federal court and want a Boston-based judge to preside over all ...
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Defence lawyer hammers cop on stand
Sun News Network
OTTAWA -- An Ontario Provincial Police constable conceded he felt "jerked around" by the drunk-driving suspect but that wasn't the reason he cut off her phone call with her lawyer. Dr. Christy Natsis is charged with killing Bryan Casey while driving ...
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Sun News Network
Elderly Couple In Fight With Lawyers Over Tens of Thousands of Dollars in ...
ABA Journal
The battle between a court-appointed law firm and the family of an elderly couple in its care over legal fees is raising questions of the treatment of aging Americans by paid guardians and the lack of state processes to protect them. A judge appointed ...
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Brash Texas lawyer joins lawsuit against Richmond Chevron refinery
By By Robert Rogers Contra Costa Times
Tony Buzbee of the Buzbee Law Firm in Houston, Texas, announced this week in a news release last week that he has joined forces with another high-profile litigator, John L. Burris of the Oakland-based Burris Law Firm, in suing Chevron ...
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Lawyer who defended Mandela in infamous 60s trial dies ...
By Agence France-Presse
Arthur Chaskalson, one of the lawyers who defended Nelson Mandela during the 1960s trial that saw that anti-apartheid icon sentenced to life in prison, died in Johannesburg on Saturday at the age of 81, the government announced in a ...
Interaksyon.com
Top Posts of the Past Week (December 1, 2012) — Bitter Lawyer
By Bitter Staff
Here are the best posts from last week, i.e., the most-read posts published during the work week ending on November 30, 2012. Check 'em out! 10 Signs You Are Dressed Unprofessionally I Want to Sound Like a (Hot Female) Attorney.
Bitter Lawyer
Pentagon Lawyer Hypes "End" of Non-Existent "Terror War ...
By therearenosunglasses
This Pentagon shill is addressing th Brits, during controversial debate over legality of the American assassination program, selling the idea that "Al Qaeda is finished," without even addressing the fact of the terrorist group's long-term service to ...
Therearenosunglasses's Weblog
Texas Lawyer Blog: Medical-malpractice verdict makes it to the ...
By Texas Lawyer
The road through Texas appellate courts is littered with plaintiffs' health-care liability claims and verdicts that have been reversed because of Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code Chapter 74, which contains most of the state's most stringent ...
Texas Lawyer Blog


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