Imagine that your law firm has, squirreled away somewhere in storage, a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. You own the bones of a six-ton prehistoric beast that could net big bucks and inspire envy among paleontologists everywhere.
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Read More »DuPont officials plan to appeal “at the earliest possible opportunity” last week’s record-setting $1 billion verdict, in which a federal jury found the company willfully infringed a patent held by Monsanto. After 17 days of trial, it took the jury ...
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Read More »The Virginia State Bar found a defense lawyer committed misconduct by taking a one-minute phone call from a plaintiff in a medical malpractice case. Heather E. Zaug got the call from Yanira Copcutt at her Fairfax law office on April ...
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Read More »Almost 55 percent of all medical malpractice cases are dismissed and less than 5 percent make it to trial, according to a recent study published by the American Medical Association. Further, most of the cases that go to trial — ...
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Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether an alien’s state-law conviction for possessing marijuana with intent to distribute constitutes an “aggravated felony” justifying deportation, even though the record of conviction does not show that the underlying conduct would constitute a ...
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Read More »BOSTON, MA — After the release of an investigative report alleging that National Labor Relations Board member Terry Flynn violated ethics rules by disclosing confidential information to two former Board members, the Senate is launching a probe of the matter. ...
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Read More »The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether disparate impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act. The court said Monday it will review a decision by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which reinstated a disparate impact ...
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Read More »RICHMOND, Va. — A Fairfax circuit jury has awarded $22,000 to a cabbie struck from behind on the Washington Beltway last year. In the case, the plaintiff made allegations that the defendant was drunk, going 85 miles per hour and ...
Read More »ST. LOUIS, Mo. — After complaints about murky employment data from law schools, the American Bar Association is trying to make the schools divulge more details on after-graduation jobs and debt. An ABA council recently approved changes that will require ...
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Read More »BOSTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a federal prison inmate has an implied cause of action for a violation of his constitutional rights against the employees of a private company that operates the facility. The Court will ...
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