... Brief amicus curiae of Texas Civil Rights Project (in support of petitioners) Docket: 08-1123 Title: ChevronTexaco Corporation, et al. v. Republic of Ecuador, et al. ... : 08-1202 Title: IMS Health, Inc., et al. v. Ayotte, Attorney General of New Hampshire Issue: To what extent does the First Amendment protect the acquisition, ... .S.C. § 1396p(b)(4)(B), preempts the Minnesota Medical Assistance estate recovery statute, which requires recovery of Medicaid benefits from the value of assets in a surviving ...
June 18, 2009 05:19 pm
... 13 Lawyers Triangular Business Journal Jan. 9, 2009 PATTON BOGGS Pain at Patton Boggs Texas Lawyer July 2, 2008 PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER Simpson Thacher Lays ... 90 Support Staff Above the Law March 5, 2009 Pillsbury Offers 'Voluntary Departure Plan' to Lawyers Above the Law Feb. 24, 2009 Pillsbury Confirms Layoff Leak (15-20) ... ; ZABEL Schulte Lays Off 20 Attorneys Above the Law April 24, 2009 SHUTTS & BOWEN South Florida Law Firms Feel the Real Estate Slump The National Law Journal ...
June 3, 2009 02:34 am
... 13 Lawyers Triangular Business Journal Jan. 9, 2009 PATTON BOGGS Pain at Patton Boggs Texas Lawyer July 2, 2008 PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER Paul Hastings Lays Off ... 90 Support Staff Above the Law March 5, 2009 Pillsbury Offers 'Voluntary Departure Plan' to Lawyers Above the Law Feb. 24, 2009 Pillsbury Confirms Layoff Leak (15-20) ... ZABEL Schulte Lays Off 20 Attorneys Above the Law April 24, 2009 SHUTTS & BOWEN South Florida Law Firms Feel the Real Estate Slump The National Law Journal ...
May 25, 2009 02:48 am

LexBlog Network Law Roundup - 5/20/09

(Real Lawyers :: Have Blogs)
... ; Kate Plus 8' couple, the accuracy of fingerprints and the potential for sabotage. California appellate court weighs in on the limits of estate planning malpractice liability - Miami lawyer Juan Antunez of Stokes McMillan Maracini & Antunez in his Florida ... of Fox Rothschild on the firm's blog Managing Work Force Reductions How accurate are fingerprints? - Waco attorney Walter Reaves in his Texas Criminal Law Blog Legislative Update: Conn. House Approves Bill Banning Use of Credit Reports for ...
May 20, 2009 05:31 pm
... 13 Lawyers Triangular Business Journal Jan. 9, 2009 PATTON BOGGS Pain at Patton Boggs Texas Lawyer July 2, 2008 PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER Paul Hastings Lays Off ... 90 Support Staff Above the Law March 5, 2009 Pillsbury Offers 'Voluntary Departure Plan' to Lawyers Above the Law Feb. 24, 2009 Pillsbury Confirms Layoff Leak (15-20) ... ZABEL Schulte Lays Off 20 Attorneys Above the Law April 24, 2009 SHUTTS & BOWEN South Florida Law Firms Feel the Real Estate Slump The National Law Journal ...
May 4, 2009 02:13 am
... Justice Department prosecuted a Texas sheriff and his deputies for waterboarding a suspect to get a confession in 1983: At the trial of the Texas sheriff, Assistant US Attorney Scott Woodward said the prisoners who were subjected to waterboarding were not "model citizens," but they were ... J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW • CIVIL LITIGATION • WILLS AND ESTATES • FAMILY LAW & DIVORCE ORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG • SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG
April 29, 2009 06:42 am

Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 4/24/09

(Real Lawyers :: Have Blogs)
... Sanction was Punitive and Affirms Award of $90,000 - David Bowerman of K&L Gates on the firm's Electronic Discovery Law blog Miss. Supreme Court Affirms Two ... Sales Tax Changes Considered - Chapel Hill attorney Greg Herman-Giddens of TrustCounsel PA in the firm's North Carolina Estate Planning Blog Threats And Secret Promises: ... amp; Blair at his blog, Day on Torts Is There a Permanently Severable "Wind Estate" In Texas? - Texas attorney Jack Howell of Sprouse Shrader Smith in the firm's Tax Law ...
April 24, 2009 07:00 pm
... have an incentive for the other person to file a divorce action, a challenge to your probate, or show up at an administration of your estate later on. The rebuttable presumption is nice, but this it not the same an an actual "adjudication," or court decision that is much more difficult to ... spouse. Taking the law into your own hands can be very dangerous, if you have questions about how any of this works, you should seek the advice of an experienced divorce lawyer or Texas Family Law Attorney.
April 19, 2009 02:58 am

King County E-Filing

(Mogren Glessner " Roti)
... to court to file. We were then immediately able to send the documents to the process server to transfer them to a process server in Texas to get the other side served. Technology is amazing. The law office of Mogren, Glessner&Roti, P.S. is located in ... main emphasis of our service is in family law (divorce, custody, support, etc.), wills and estate planning (Wills, Commmunity Property Agreements, Power of Attorney, etc.), probate, and personal injury. Please call visit our web page at [www. ...
April 15, 2009 07:32 am

Corrected Fraud Alert

(Estate Street)
... complaint which resulted in the default judgment. The final judgment orders The Estate Plan to pay approximately $2.5 million in compensatory damages, $10 million in exemplary damages, $4.16 million in attorney fees, non -taxable costs, and post-judgment interest. The class includes Arkansas or Texas consumers who purchased living trusts documents from The Estate Plan or any of their affiliates from Jan. 1, 1998, to March 6, ...
April 15, 2009 03:31 am
Reef Rest? Bloomberg gives us the latest in body disposal trends . . The Parks and Wildlife Department in Texas plans to become the first government agency in the U.S. to let families lay cremated remains in protected forests for a fee to help the state buy more land for conservation. Back-to-Earth burials and low- energy, low-emission cremations. Biodegradable embalming fluid to caskets made ...
April 14, 2009 02:15 am
... University of Texas Areas of practice: I focus mainly on contested probate, trust, and guardianship matters. However, like many lawyers in small towns, I also do estate planning, real ... seem younger than I am. Laura Upchurch works at Moorman Tate Moorman Urquhart Haley L.L.P. You can also view Laura's TexasBar.com profile. Prizes ... that you're randomly picked from among 80,000 peers. To commemorate, randomly-profiled attorneys receive a TexasBar.com t-shirt and a law firm link (a $50 value). Update ...
April 13, 2009 09:07 am
$16 M default judgment entered against seller of living trust By Michelle Massey, Texarkana Bureau Southeast Texas Record 4/1/2009 7:25 PM U.S. District Judge Harry F. Barnes ... The Estate Plan, a company accused of ripping off senior citizens in Texas and Arkansas. The Estate Plan and other living trust sellers are facing allegations of "masquerading as qualified financial advisers, estate planners, lawyers, and paralegals" to "exploit and prey" upon senior citizens with the creation and selling ...
April 2, 2009 02:24 am
... Law Daily Nov. 21, 2008 FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER Freshfields Lays Off Real Estate Associates Legal Week Sept. 22, 2008 FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER Freshfields Lays Off ... Triangular Business Journal Jan. 9, 2009 PATTON BOGGS Pain at Patton Boggs Texas Lawyer July 2, 2008 PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER Paul Hastings Lays ... 19, 2009 TROUTMAN SANDERS Unconfirmed Attorneys Layoffs, Could Be as High as 4% Fulton County daily Report April 17, 2009 Troutman Plans Buyout of Staff, Layoff of ...
April 1, 2009 03:30 am

Estate planning malpractice analyzed

(Wills, Trusts " Estates Prof Blog)
Sharon B. Gardner (Partner, Crain Caton & James, Houston, Texas) has recently published her article entitled Project Runaway--One Day You're In As the Attorney and the Next Day You're Out!, 1 Est. Plan. & Comm. Prop. L.J. 111 (2008). Here...
March 30, 2009 05:36 am
It's not uncommon for a Texas state or local government body to enter into a ground lease with a private party covering the government body's land. When the private party constructs buildings or other improvements on that land ... of the ownership question is very detailed and worth reviewing by businesses planning to enter into similar real estate leases with state or local government bodies. That analysis should also be reviewed by attorneys representing such businesses, since it points out that ...
March 16, 2009 05:00 am
... Law Daily Nov. 21, 2008 FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER Freshfields Lays Off Real Estate Associates Legal Week Sept. 22, 2008 FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER Freshfields Lays Off ... Triangular Business Journal Jan. 9, 2009 PATTON BOGGS Pain at Patton Boggs Texas Lawyer July 2, 2008 PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER Paul Hastings Lays ... HINE 3 More Cleveland Firms Cut Attorneys, Staff The Plain Dealer Feb. 19, 2009 TROUTMAN SANDERS Troutman Plans Byout of Staff, Layoff of Associates Fulton County ...
March 4, 2009 01:52 am

Alimony-- Craigslist to the Rescue

(Divorce and Family Law in Tarrant County, Texas)
... you can be assured your ex will not find the humor in being marketed on Craigslist." In Texas, there is a common misperception that there is no alimony. Actually, we can have ... Mississippi blog is obviously doomed to failure, but so is almost any other plan to end alimony early. Alimony may have a lot of tax and income ... substantial estates. What you should keep in mind is that an agreement for alimony should not be entered into lightly. The best course of action is for you and your attorney to work ...
February 26, 2009 11:56 pm

LAW.COM Newswire Highlights February 25, 2009

(New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library Blog)
... last week's SEC lawsuit accusing Stanford of a "massive" fraud, international banking attorneys are being deluged by Stanford clients fearing the worst and hoping that somehow their money can ... to such pro-business provisions. Lawyer Can Be Sued Over Wording of Real Estate Contract 20 Years Earlier New Jersey Law Journal Proving that a lawyer's ... . Last week one of the Emerald Isle's largest law firms, A&L Goodbody, announced that it was seeking to cut 45 jobs -- 20 from the firm's stable of ...
February 25, 2009 12:26 am

San Diegans Following in Famous Footsteps?

(San Diego Estate Planning Lawyer Blog)
... in good company. Many famous people from the past utilized trusts as part of their estate plan. When the 13 colonies declared independence in 1776, the richest man was a Senator from Pennsylvania named William Bingham. He created a trust in 1804 for his vast estate in Maine. Joseph Kennedy, father of President John F. Kennedy established many ... estimated that they created well over 100 trusts. Likewise, H.L. Hunt, a Texas billionaire, used about 25 trusts, many for his children. Linda Mc ...
February 12, 2009 09:39 am