Ferguson, Schetelich & Ballew P.A.’s law library is a small, windowless room far away from the lawyers’ offices at the Baltimore firm. Network servers hum beneath the dim lights and multiple blue Ethernet cables burst through the ceiling tiles. Bookshelves ...

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Cuts in litigation budgets have forced jury consultants to find creative ways to shave costs to keep their law firm clients happy. Law firms have turned to do-it-yourself methods, or cut back on mock-jurors’ hours, to slim down bills. Others ...

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NEW YORK — The Web may seem like the land of something for nothing. Free video. Free news. Even free tools such as word processing and spreadsheets. But almost two-thirds of adult Internet users in the U.S. have paid for ...

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LONDON — Wikileaks struggled to stay online Friday as corporations and governments moved to cut its access to the Internet, a potentially crippling blow for an organization dedicated to releasing secret information via the web. The American company that directed ...

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NEW YORK — Holiday shoppers gave retailers a happy Thanksgiving weekend, crowding stores and malls more than last year. Add strong spending earlier this month and robust sales online, and retailers head into “Cyber Monday” encouraged. Particularly because many shoppers ...

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“Beatles for Sale” is finally for sale on iTunes — along with the rest of the Fab Four’s albums, from “Please Please Me” to “Revolver” to “Abbey Road.” The Beatles had been the most prominent holdout from iTunes and other ...

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SEATTLE — Amazon.com Inc. said Friday it is hiring more than 15,500 people to fill temporary holiday jobs at shipping centers around the country, more than it hired last year. The online retail giant said in news releases that it ...

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More shoppers flocked to Amazon.com Inc.’s website during the third quarter, helping the online retailer’s net income climb 16 percent and easily beat analyst expectations. However, the Seattle-based company said operating expenses climbed as it increased its ability to fill ...

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BALTIMORE — A former Maryland resident has been convicted of bilking online investors out of more than $17 million after a three-week trial. Federal prosecutors say 32-year-old Byron Brown of Vienna, Va., was convicted Wednesday on five counts of wire ...

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