A couple who said they have invested thousands of dollars in an Independence nightclub, said they are still part owners, despite claims to the contrary by another owner with whom they are embroiled in a legal dispute.
Sandra and Jack Larson of Independence said they have invested more than $170,000 into the opening of Dallas, [...]
The water vole is the UK s fastest declining mammal. Photograph: PA
Nearly 12 years after conservationists asked government to help save the disappearing water vole, the whiskered creature that inspired the character Ratty in Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows - along with seahorses, a shark and an edible snail - has become one of [...]
Joseph Bentley, adjunct professor at the Brigham Young University Law School, will talk about the legal trials of Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at a forum Friday, March 28, at 11 a.m. in the Stoddard Activities Center at Southern Virginia University.
Bentley is the past chair of the J. [...]
Washington County faces potential chaos in its criminal justice system in the wake of a federal public corruption probe of former District Attorney John Pettit, legal experts said.
The FBI and Pennsylvania State Police are investigating whether Pettit, 72, who served 24 years until being ousted in January, solicited false testimony, fixed cases, traded sex [...]
The Maryland Legal Services Corp. last fall estimated its revenue from interest on lawyer trust accounts (IOLTA) would double to $13 million once a new “comparability†rule came into effect, essentially tying the rate to a percentage of the federal funds target rate.
Back then, though, the federal funds rate was 5.25 percent. On Tuesday, [...]
Brazilian energy company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said that its sale of Ecuadorean assets to Teikoku Oil Co. of Japan was legal and approved by local authorities, contrary to claims by a top Ecuadorean prosecutor.
Rio de Janeiro-based Petrobras, as the company is known, denied that it went ahead with the sale without permission, it said [...]
Iran has threatened legal action against Western states to seek compensation for losses it said it had suffered from U.N. Security Council sanctions over its nuclear program.
The threat came in a 20-page letter from Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, obtained by Reuters on Wednesday. It rejects as illegal the latest sanctions [...]
Rowan Williams, Anglican Primate of all England, shocked Britons recently, stating that because many Muslims don’t “relate” to the British legal system, “constructive accommodation with some aspects of shariah law” is “unavoidable.”
Widespread anger rudely reminded the Archbishop that it was not his job to advance the claims of Islam, but to defend the interests of [...]
Rental rates for premium commercial space sought by law firms in Boston’s Back Bay and Financial District jumped dramatically in 2007 - up to $65 to $75 per square foot, compared to $40 to $50 a year earlier, according to Jones Lang LaSalle’s latest report tracking real estate trends in the legal sector.
With little [...]
A group of business and political leaders is forming a legal defense fund to help Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick fight felony perjury charges.
Members of the Detroit Justice Fund include Conrad Mallett, former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court; S. Martin Taylor, a former DTE executive and a University of Michigan regent; attorney Reginald Turner, [...]
