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Clinton presses Ukraine on former PM's legal caseSTLtoday.comAP | Posted: Saturday, February 4, 2012 8:02 am | Loading… US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pose for photographers during the 48th Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof hotel …and more » View full post on legal – Google [...]

Clinton presses Ukraine on former PM's legal caseSan Francisco ChronicleBy MATTHEW LEE, AP Jim Watson / AP US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pose for photographers during the 48th Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, …and more » View full post on legal – [...]

Boston.com Clinton presses Ukraine on former PM's legal caseBoston.comUS Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives at the Security Conference on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 in Munich, Germany. Politicians and military representatives will join for the 48. Munich Security conference from Friday, Feb.and more » View full post on legal – Google News

Atlanta Journal Constitution Clinton presses Ukraine on former PM's legal caseAtlanta Journal ConstitutionBy MATTHEW LEE AP MUNICH — US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is pressing Ukrainian authorities to quickly resolve the criminal case brought against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (YOOL'-yah tee-moh-SHEN'-koh).and more » View full post on legal – Google News

DETROIT – A former 911 dispatcher’s claim that the city where he worked violated the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) fails because the city’s paid volunteer firefighters are not “employees” under the act and, therefore, the city does not meet the 50-employee requirement for FMLA eligibility, a Michigan federal judge held Jan. 31 (Paul Mendel [...]

UDM Law School buys former firehouse for legal aid clinicsDetroit Free PressBy John Gallagher The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law has purchased a vacant former Detroit firehouse downtown for use as the future home of its public legal aid clinics. UDM bought the former firehouse at 585 Larned with a gift from alumnus [...]

Seyfarth Shaw and partner Richard Alfred have won a malpractice case brought against them by former client PCG Trading, which claimed the defendants didn’t do enough to protect it from court judgments in employment cases filed against Converge Inc. after PCG bought Converge’s assets. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

In the wake of a Texas Supreme Court opinion, an inventor is seeking to revive his $100 million suit against his former lawyers. Vernon F. Minton, who lost a state court malpractice suit against lawyers who represented him a decade ago, has filed a negligence suit in federal court. View full post on Law.com – [...]

The former general counsel for a New York labor union has been indicted for allegedly stealing more than $211,000 from the union by filing false receipts for continuing legal education courses, legal reference materials and copying and mailing services. Kevin Clor has pleaded not guilty. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

NEW ORLEANS – A former BP America Inc. employee who was the state planning lead for cleanup operations in the Gulf of Mexico after the oil spill caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010 filed suit on Jan. 20 in Louisiana federal court, alleging that he was terminated for [...]