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Bipartisan Poll Shows Small Businesses Concerned About Economy, Lawsuits, Effectiveness of Government Actions (Popularity:  )
Small business owners are much more pessimistic than average voters about the national economy and hold negative views of Washington's attempts at solving problems, according to a national bipartisan poll conducted by Bill McInturff and Doug Schoen for the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR). The survey also shows that small business owners are among the most motivated about this fall's elections."This poll reveals that there is a lot ...
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War in Iraq: Attorney Discovers Revolutionary Way to End Coalition Casualties and Restore Peace (Popularity: )
http://www.nonjustice.org
The war in Iraq has caused more than 2500 Iraq coalition casualities and an estimated 30,000 to 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths. There does not seem to be any end in sight to the Iraq war and American troops do not appear to be in a position to come home. the root of any conflict lies in the craving for justice for wrongs done to one, actual or perceived. The online ...
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Portland State President to Be New CEO of Law School Admission Council (Popularity: )
http://www.lsac.org
Daniel O. Bernstine, who has been President of Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, for the last decade, will be the new President and Chief Executive Officer of the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) starting July 1, 2007. President Bernstine was Dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School from 1990 to 1997. LSAC, whose members include law schools across the United States and Canada, owns the Law School Admission ...
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Bank of New York Flip-Flops Position on Russian Legal System (Popularity: )
http://www.russianbanksuit.com
Attorneys representing the Russian Federal Customs Service said today that the Bank of New York's (NYSE: BK) comments on the Russian legal system were both condescending and inconsistent with the Bank's own prior position on the jurisdiction of the specific court in which the case involving the Federal Customs Service's US$22.5 billion claim is being heard. In the Bank of New York's June 30, 2008 press conference in Moscow, Bank ...
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Justice Department & IRS Announce Results of UBS Settlement & Unprecedented Response in Voluntary Tax Disclosure Program (Popularity: )
Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden released the following statement regarding the announcement today by the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding the results arising from previous settlements of civil and criminal cases against Swiss banking giant UBS AG. The Justice Department and IRS announced that over 14,700 taxpayers have come forward to report previously-undisclosed foreign bank accounts under the voluntary disclosure program the IRS implemented ...
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Alaska Lobbyist Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Obtain Bribe Payments for State Lawmaker (Popularity: )
http://www.usdoj.gov
A lobbyist from Anchorage, Alaska, has pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to obtain bribe payments for a former elected member of the Alaska House of Representatives, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today. William B. Bobrick pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information today before Chief U.S. District Judge John W. Sedwick at the federal court in Anchorage. Bobrick admitted that beginning in ...
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Expert Panel Moderated by Autonomy ZANTAZ Delivers Best Practices to Prepare for Escalating Subprime Litigation (Popularity: )
http://www.zantaz.com
Autonomy ZANTAZ, a leader in the archiving, eDiscovery and Proactive Information Risk Management (IRM) markets, (LSE: AU. or AU.L), today announced electronic discovery best practices to prepare financial institutions for the rise in class-action lawsuits and new State and Federal Government probes and regulatory initiatives anticipated from the subprime crisis. These best practices were discussed in length yesterday by a panel moderated by Nicole Eagan of Autonomy ZANTAZ at the ...
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Law Enforcement Officer Fatalities Fall Sharply during Third Quarter of 2009 (Popularity: )
http://www.lawmemorial.org
After jumping 20 percent in the first six months of 2009, the number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty fell sharply during the third quarter of this year and is on pace to reach a five-decade low this year, according to preliminary data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.Nationwide, 26 officers died in the line of duty during the months of July, August and ...
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Annual Conference Leads Legal Industry in Diversity Discussions (Popularity: )
http://www.namwolf.org
Continuing to promote true diversity in the legal industry, the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) will gather for its Annual Meeting and Law Firm Expo at the Marriott - Dallas Las Colinas Hotel on November 13-14. Highlights of the meeting will include career development and legal education seminars, a diversity awards luncheon, networking opportunities and an expo highlighting the minority and women-owned law firm members. ...
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Federal Judge Holds Notorious Tax Defier in Contempt of Court (Popularity: )
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A federal court in New York has held Robert L. Schulz of Queensbury, N.Y., in contempt of court, the Justice Department announced today. Judge Thomas J. McAvoy of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York ruled that Schulz and his We The People organization have failed to comply with the court's earlier injunction order. The contempt order states that if Schultz and the organization fail to ...
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