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A company that makes engineering and construction toys targeted to girls claims in a lawsuit that its use of a Beastie Boys song in a viral video was fair use.

It’s a record year for law firm mergers. The number has already hit 78, beating the previous record of 70 set in 2008, the Am Law Daily reports.

A pending bill in Florida would pay up to $44,000 toward the law-school debt of lawyers working a set number of years as state prosecutors or public defenders. The sponsor of the bill is Florida Rep. James Waldman, D-Broward County, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

A Texas judge recently disagreed with a jury’s acquittal in a DWI case, and he let them know it.

The Florida Supreme court has suspended a lawyer for two years for rude conduct and recommended that the case be studied “as a glaring example of unprofessional behavior.” The court rejected a referee’s recommended sanction for Jeffrey Alan Norkin as too lenient, saying a two-year suspension is a

Many employers say they check out job applicants on Facebook or other social media for unprofessional behavior, but online profiles may also harm applicants who appear to be Muslim, a new study has found. The Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) describes the experiment.

Remember when Alec Baldwin was kicked off a flight for refusing to "power down" his cell phone because he was busy playing "Words With Friends"? From refusing to "power down" to dressing scantily, passengers regularly get booted for giving the cold shoulder to flight attendants' orders.

In a recent internal legal memorandum (the ILM), the IRS concluded that a US individual was entitled to treat dividends received from a Cypriot holding company with no Cypriot ownership as qualified dividend income (QDI), and thereby is eligible for...

2013 Annual Report to Congress on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program - Back when the Dodd-Frank Act first proposed the creation of the Office of the Whistleblower (OWB) a hue and cry went up from chief compliance officers, general counsels and...

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