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Legal Matters: When good lawyers go badCarroll County TimesHer column, which provides legal information but not legal advice, appears on the second and fourth Sunday each month in Life & Times. Posted in Law on Sunday, May 13, 2012 12:00 am. Updated: 2:34 pm. 1 Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, …and more » View [...]

When, and if, the jurors in the Philadelphia priest sex-abuse case receive the judge’s charge, prosecutors want them to hear an explanation of what it means to have a duty of care to not endanger the welfare of children, while the defense does not want any such explanation. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

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Lawyers for Roger Clemens asked a judge Monday to strike key testimony from Andy Pettitte, who told jurors that Clemens once admitted that he used human growth hormone. The defense said because Pettitte agreed there was a 50-50 chance he misunderstood Clemens, the alleged admission “has all the weight of a coin flip.” View full [...]

Lawyers and legal experts from 27 states travelled to Washington to meet with White House and Capitol Hill officials today to shake up what they see as a stalled process to fill federal judicial vacancies across the country. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

In-house lawyers take on pro bono workWashington PostEighteen months ago, Capital One invested $25000 to have dozens in-house lawyers and IT staff develop a product to digitize thousands of legal files at 40-plus legal aid groups in Virginia — giving lawyers looking for pro bono clients a way to review …and more » View full post [...]

The Sixth Circuit has affirmed the convictions of disbarred lawyers Shirley Cunningham Jr. and William Gallion for bilking clients of settlement money in the fen-phen diet drug litigation. Cunningham and Gallion were two of three lawyers who represented about 431 clients in a Kentucky fen-phen case against American Home Products. View full post on Law.com [...]

Attorneys for a company that lost a $577 million judgment on appeal last month are now arguing that the decision was unfairly influenced by two California appeal court justices who belatedly recused themselves from the appellate process. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Lawyers are calling a new interim rule of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection “a good start.” The rule allows the agency to share information protected by the Trade Secrets Act — such as product serial numbers — with trademark holders so the rights owners can help the agency identify counterfeit goods. View full post [...]

In the damages retrial of Oracle’s copyright infringement case against SAP AG, Oracle gives $776.7 million as a “conservative estimate,” while SAP asserts Oracle should get no more than $28 million. The retrial comes after a federal judge threw out as “grossly excessive” a $1.3 billion jury verdict in favor of Oracle in 2010. View [...]