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A registered sex offender in the Los Angeles area was arrested on Friday after he found a teenage girls lost dog and demanded that she either give him money or sexual favors for the return of the dog, or he was going to torture it.
The levels of scumbag that people sink to is absolutely [...]
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Lexis-Nexis is supporting the battered legal community through another program, Lend-a-Hand, which is designed to help lawyers laid off from large law firms market themselves. See the Lend-a-Hand page here: http://www.lexisnexis.com/lendahand
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Railroad litigation can be incredibly complex, ranging from accidents on the tracks to railroad employee claims against the company. On this edition of Ringler Radio, host Larry Cohen and co-host Zachery Leonard welcome Attorney John J Jablonski, from the firm Goldberg Segalla LLP in Buffalo, New York, with extensive experience defending large class one railroads in hundreds of FELA claims involving occupational exposure and traumatic injuries. Hear about some real life railroad litigation cases and see how a structured settlement can make a difference when trying to resolve these cases.
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Today the U.S. Supreme Court sided with white firefighters in a workplace discrimination lawsuit. The case is at the center of affirmative action and the role race should play in job advancement.
The court ruled that the city of New Haven, Connecticut, was wrong to trash a promotions exam because no African-Americans and only two [...]
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Today’s Boston Globe has an article about the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, Vermont, which looks like a classic bookstore, but has taken a big step into the future. Northshire has installed an Espresso Book Machine, dubbed “Lurch” by the staff, which prints books on demand for customers while they wait. The Globe article is accompanied by a short video that shows the machine in action, and this will be of particular interest to librarians.
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Larry Wilder, a once-respected Indiana lawyer, resigned today over an event that somehow slipped under my radar.
“On June 17th, Jeffersonville attorney Larry Wilder was found asleep by police in his neighbors overturned city garbage can after neighbors called police when they woke to find their trash strewn on the ground and a man inside the [...]
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While Betsy was in China and Jim was holding down the fort at OOTJ, I was attending my daughter’s college graduation and vacationing in France (two and a half weeks) as well as several days in Germany. The weather was mostly clear, but surprisingly cold for this time of year. This was our first time back in France in thirty years, and I was struck by how much more diverse the population seems to be. Before our departure, I had spent a lot of time working on my rusty French with the Rosetta Stone program, and found that I got more from the lessons than I thought I had–speaking and listening were fairly easy, and this enhanced my experience. After spending time in Paris, we headed to Alsace-Lorraine and over to Germany. Some highlights: the Code of Hammurabi at the Louvre Museum (and seeing the renovations made to the Museum itself, which seem to work very well); attending a concert at Sainte-Chappelle, an exquisite jewel box known for its walls of stained glass, which literally took my breath away when I walked in (the interior is shown above, but the picture doesn’t do it justice); riding a cable car in Germany and walking in the Black Forest; hiking in the Vosges Mountains in France and coming upon the ruins of a twelfth-century castle perched high on a mountain top; visiting stunning Gothic cathedrals in Metz, Nancy, Strasbourg, and Freiburg; eating Quiche Lorraine in Lorraine; attending a ballet performance at the Paris Opera and luxuriating in the over-the-top interior design; walking in Paris and remembering all over again how beautiful it is; strolling in the fabulous formal gardens at the chateau of Vaux le Vicomte. I returned to work early last week with the performance appraisal process in full swing and demanding a good deal of my attention. Now that that is somewhat under control, I should be able to blog more regularly. Read the rest of this entry »
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On May 31, 2009, Air France flight 447, out of Rio de Janerio bound for Paris, vanished into thin air. A frantic search for passengers and the black boxes, turned up with a number of bodies but no black boxes. Hosts Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams invite Attorney Justin T. Green, partner with the firm Kreindler & Kreindler and Attorney John A. Greaves from the firm Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, PC , to discuss the crash, the litigation and jurisdiction issues and the quest for compensation for the victims’ families.
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Savana Redding won a partial victory of her Supreme Court appeal today.
The former middle-school student was strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain medication in 2003 when she was an eighth grader at Safford Middle School. (about 127 miles from Tucson, Arizona)
“Savana’s subjective expectation of privacy against such a search is inherent in her [...]
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On Monday, the man known as the ”Spam King’ of America, and four of his cronies plead guilty in federal court for their roles in an international spamming scheme.
Alan Ralsky was at the center of an email spamming scheme that sent billions of illegal e-mail advertisements to pump up Chinese “penny” stocks.
“Ralsky, 64, of West [...]
