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San Francisco and Dallas offered the highest median salaries for associates in 2009. According to Payscale.com, the salary research site, San Francisco has a median salary of $98,900 for associates [...]

Disaster strikes when you least expect it. Earthquakes, floods, fires and hurricanes displace thousands of businesses every year. Your office could be next. According to Laura Calloway, program director of [...]

If your office is overrun with boxes and boxes of files, memos and depositions, it may be time to consider going paperless. Phoenix attorney Richard Keyt made the switch in [...]

Are you tired of your computer running poorly and frustrated with software failure or inadequate technical support? Is your PC or Mac slowing down your practice? Maybe you should consider [...]

An Alabama jury has awarded $3.5 million in a wrongful death suit after a speeding logging truck rear-ended a van and killed the driver. In January 2008, James Sanderson was [...]

An Iowa jury has awarded $7.2 million to the widow of a man killed in a helicopter crash while filming a movie. The award to Kathryn L. Schlotzhauer is one [...]

The total number of medical malpractice lawsuit payments made in 2008 fell to a record low, according to a recent report from Public Citizen. These payments, which include settlements between [...]

Legal documents can be difficult to read. It is not uncommon for dangling participles, incomplete clauses, passive voice, split verb phrases, misspelled words and/or poor grammar to appear in a [...]

The Innocence Project recently released a report on how statistically unreliable eyewitness testimony can be. The report, entitled Reevaluating Lineups: Why Witness Make Mistakes and How to Reduce the Chance [...]

Alexandra Rudolph is a trial consultant at DOAR Litigation Consulting (http://www.doar.com/) in New York City who specializes in focus groups, shadow juries and witness preparation. Rudolph recently spoke with Lawyers [...]

Byline: Aaron Krivitzky Two organizations representing blind individuals are suing to prevent a university from using Amazon's Kindle DX electronic reading device as a tool to distribute electronic textbooks to [...]

A woman who was hit with a $1.92 million verdict after a federal jury in Minnesota found that she had illegally downloaded 24 songs has asked the judge to reduce [...]

The FDA is seeking public comment on how it should implement its new authority over the advertising, marketing and production of all tobacco products in the U.S. Under the new [...]

Previously undisclosed documents in a suit against the contact lens maker Advanced Medical Optics suggest that the company failed to report the potential health risks of Complete MoisturePlus - a [...]

A class action has been filed against Iovate Health Sciences, the makers of weight loss dietary supplement Hydroxycut, in federal court in California. The plaintiffs allege that the manufacturer misrepresented [...]

Texas lawmakers have passed a bill that will make it a third degree felony to impersonate someone online. The measure forbids the creation of a false online identity without that [...]

UPS has settled a class action filed by deaf and hearing impaired drivers who challenged the company's application of a Department of Transportation hearing standard to all driving positions at [...]

Recent market failures are causing jurors to be more skeptical and less trustworthy, according one trial consultant. Dr. Noelle Nelson, a California trial consultant, clinical psychologist and author of the [...]

Lawmakers and members of various interest groups debated a bill earlier this month that would bar courts from keeping corporations' information secret during discovery. A House subcommittee held a hearing [...]