The tight economy and scarcity of work is tempting many lawyers to take bigger ethical risks than they would during better times. Small-firm and solo lawyers experimenting in new practice areas are at particular risk. Business lawyers are also being ...

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Serving on the board of a local organization takes a time commitment and an understanding family. But according to attorneys who participate, the ends justify the means. “I tell people that my civic involvement has been very much intertwined with ...

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Residents of a Madison County, Ill., facility for the physically disabled and mentally ill failed to force the county to keep Shelter Care Home open, but they succeeded in getting county assistance for at least 10 years. A lawsuit filed ...

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Residents of the Robinwood West subdivision in St. Louis County have filed a class action lawsuit against the Robinwood West Community Improvement District’s alleging that the CID could not impose a 2008 property tax increase. The lawsuit filed by nine ...

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One all-too-familiar story in 2008 was of law firms reducing their ranks to cut expenses. Since the year-old economic recession began last December, law firms reliant on traditional corporate practices have experienced a sharp decline in the demand for lawyers ...

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2009 is expected to be a tough year for law firms. The economic turbulence brought on by the credit crisis caused corporations to tighten their belts, leading to less work for lawyers in such traditional corporate areas as mergers & ...

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