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Energy Collective Entergy seeks $4.6 million in legal fees from state of Vermontvtdigger.orgby Anne Galloway | February 4, 2012 entergy needs to be stopped. can you imagine them wanting money for out lawyering our state – even after the hurricane disaster bringing vermont to her knees. they are so evil and cannot be trusted to [...]

Main Justice Botched Stevens Case Costs Taxpayers $1.8 Million in Legal FeesMain JusticeIt is also costing the taxpayers, to the tune of some $1.8 million in legal fees so far to defend prosecutors from allegations of wrongdoing. The DOJ has paid about $1.6 million since 2009 to private lawyers representing six prosecutors accused of …and [...]

MassLive.com Vt. Yankee owner wants $4.6 million in legal feesRutland HeraldEntergy is forced to pay millions of dollars in legal fees to defend itself against the liberals who have no case then the libs whine about how they won't do more frequent inspections to suit their agenda. If the Vermont government acted more as a [...]

Health reform law saves $2.1 billion for 3.6 million Americans with MedicareMarketWatch (press release)According to a new report issued today from HHS, the average person with Medicare will save nearly $4200 by 2021 because of the new law. "The Affordable Care Act is already saving money for millions of Americans with Medicare," said HHS Secretary [...]

Lawyers for Western Digital are attempting to vacate a $630 million arbitration award against their client, arguing that the arbitrator “engaged in prejudicial misconduct” by levying what they call a record-setting award as a punitive sanction in Western Digital’s trade secrets war with Seagate Technology. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Because a federal judge erred in finding that a disputed patent could be found novel over prior art cited by defendant Ford Motor Co., the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 27 reversed findings of validity and remanded for a judgment of nonliability (Jacob Krippelz Sr. v. Ford Motor Company, [...]

Clio Grabs $6 Million To Help Bring Small Legal Practices To The CloudTechCrunchHowever, there are a number of services out there that are trying to make the legal profession's web presences less of a laughing matter. While there's a perception that most lawyers work in big law firms, 80 percent of the legal market is [...]

Cloud-Based Legal Management Platform Clio Raises $6 Million in Series B FundingMarketWatch (press release)NEW YORK, NY and VANCOUVER, BC, Jan 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Clio ( http://www.goclio.com/ ), the leader in cloud-based management tools for the legal industry, announced today at LegalTech New York that it has raised $6 million in its …and [...]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Florida federal judge on Jan. 23 conditionally certified a class of employees of a mattress retailer for the purpose of finalizing a $ 1.6 million settlement of the employees’ unpaid overtime claims (Bradley Hosier v. Mattress Firm, Inc., No. 10-294, M.D. Fla.; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7435). View full post on [...]

Liverpool’s Silverbeck Rymer is set to be acquired by software and outsourcing firm Quindell Portfolio in one of the first takeovers of a law firm under the U.K.’s Legal Services Act. The deal, which requires regulatory approval, will create a combined insurance claims outsourcing operation.Visit International News View full post on Law.com – Newswire