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Seeing Red Over the Yellow Pages
Consumers who don't know where to go when they have a legal problem can turn to a State Bar of Texas-certified lawyer referral service for help. But finding an LRS in the AT&T Yellow Pages soon may be more difficult. St. Louis, Mo.-based AT&T Advertising and Publishing historically has placed listings and advertisements for lawyer referral services in Texas before the listings and ads for all attorneys in the Yellow Pages. But the company is changing the positioning for LRS ads.
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Attorney Resigns From Bar Amid Charges He Defrauded Old Firm
A labor law attorney resigned from the Pennsylvania Bar on consent Friday after admitting he couldn't defend himself against charges he defrauded his then-longtime firm, Harvey Pennington, out of more than $133,000 for reimbursement of travel expenses for business trips that he never took and that had never been planned. The state Supreme Court granted on Friday a statement of resignation signed by labor attorney Stephen J. Cabot, founder of the Cabot Institute for Labor Relations.
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What Is the Benefit of Virtualization?
Virtualization is a 20-year-old technology with roots in mainframe computer systems that has moved to PCs. Attorney, computer consultant and blogger Alan Pearlman discusses how compartmentalized servers sharing the same physical hardware can benefit small, medium and large law firms.
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A Primer on What Lawyers Can Say About Judges
At some point, almost everyone hears the phrase, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." During the 2008 election season, the question becomes whether this admonition applies to lawyers in their comments about judges. Dallas attorney Bruce A. Campbell, who defends lawyers in disciplinary actions, explains what lawyers can -- and can't -- say about judges and how the First and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution protect lawyers who make false statements about judges.
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Associate's Sex Discrimination Claims Proceed Against Law Firm
A New York federal judge has allowed sex discrimination claims to proceed against an intellectual property law firm that fired an associate two days after she complained in an e-mail to partners that the firm's women lawyers were being "relegated to non-partnership track support roles." The judge also found that remarks by Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane's managing partner that the associate was insufficiently "sweet" in dealing with a paralegal "could be construed as reflecting discriminatory animus."
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Lawyer Calls Former Paralegal's 'Sexual Predator' Claims 'Ridiculous and Not True'
Prominent Texas plaintiffs lawyer Richard N. Laminack uses words such as "silly" and "ridiculous and not true" to respond to allegations in a lawsuit filed by former paralegal Angela Robinson that describes him as a "sexual predator" who participated in an effort to defraud fen-phen clients by overcharging them for expenses. Laminack says it's not true that he would, as Robinson claims, "routinely demand sexual favors" from employees, and he disputes the broader allegations involving fen-phen litigation.
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