The Alaska Republican has asked the Senate Ethics Committee to approve the fund, which would be administered by a trustee who could solicit donations to help the senator with his court fees, according to Stevens’s spokesman.
Stevens said Tuesday during an Alaska Public Radio interview that the fund was already established, but his spokesman indicated Wednesday [...]
Folksy Alabama attorney Jim Parkman, known for his dynamic sound bites since he came to Detroit, is no longer with Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s legal team, a spokesman said Monday.
“The mayor has put together a legal team of various backgrounds and experience designed to play different roles during different stages. We are now moving into another [...]
Mayor Jerry Sanders and City Attorney Michael Aguirre disagree over whether the city should pay, but the City Council will decide tomorrow.
The report also cited Uberuaga as negligent for the same reason.
A month later, the City Council voted unanimously to stop paying the legal bills for the former officials auditor Ed Ryan, deputy auditor Terri [...]
The agency that coordinates legal representation on civil mat ters for poor New Jersey residents said yesterday it is facing a budget shortfall worse than it ever anticipated and called on the state for help.
“Nearly all civil legal problems of low-income people occur in state courts or agencies,” Miller said. “If people are to have [...]
“This lack of decision has delayed drilling for another year - extending the timeline it will take to bring this much-needed U.S. production on line,” Shell spokesman Curtis Smith said in a press release.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco is considering a lawsuit filed by environmentalists, whalers and the North Slope Borough [...]
The presiding judge in a lawsuit against the state of Massachusetts and the company that wants to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound dismissed the bulk of the suit this week.
Barnstable Superior Court Judge Robert Kane ruled in favor of Cape Wind Associates on most of the company’s requests to dismiss five complaints in [...]
Lawyers’ groups and unions are fighting to resurrect a tax break for legal services provided as an employee benefit that has languished for more than a decade.
The provision would also benefit insurance firms that sell group legal plans to employers, like Hyatt Legal Plans, a unit of MetLife, Inc. (MET) and ARAG Insurance Company of [...]
BP could be forced to cut production at its Russian subsidiary TNK-BP after a small Moscow brokerage with ties to one of its primary shareholders filed several lawsuits to keep 148 top engineering and technical staff from returning to work.
Tetlis, a brokerage run by two former executives of Alfa Group, the investment group that holds [...]
What could have been the largest-ever donation to the War Amps charity is disappearing into legal fees as part of a lengthy fight between the federal government and a Vancouver Island great-grandmother.
The fight centres on a piece of Victoria property, at 1638 Hollywood Cres., that once belonged to First World War veteran Arnold Palmer. Palmer, [...]
It is estimated that customers could receive up to ï¿¡326 million or ï¿¡2,000 per person if the action proves successful.
The protection policies are usually sold alongside loans and credit cards, car finance and Legal occasionally mortgages.
Law firm Clyde & Cois is launching the case against HFC, a lender owned by HSBC, which sold payment protection [...]
