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$55 million settlement reached in Chinese drywall cases 

Published: June 15, 2011

Tags: Chinese drywall

A preliminary settlement has been reached between the Florida-based drywall suppliers, their insurers and homeowners whose homes sustained damaged from tainted Chinese drywall.

Business and Civil Practice

By: dmc-admin
Published: January 19, 2009

LawyersUSA’s Business and Civil Practice section is filled with stories about business and civil practice in the news and around the nation.

Bankruptcy

By: dmc-admin
Published: January 19, 2009

LawyersUSA’s Bankruptcy section is filled with stories about bankruptcies in the news and around the nation.

2008: The year in drug litigation 

By: dmc-admin
Published: December 31, 2008

Lawyers USA followed the hot trends in drug tort litigation in 2008.

As a $58 million settlement was reached against the makers of Vioxx for failing to warn about the drug’s health risks in its advertisements, the seeds of litigation were planted against
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DNA sampling is constitutional 

By: dmc-admin
Published: December 31, 2008

DNA sampling doesn’t violate a prisoner’s religious rights under the Constitution or federal law, the D.C. Circuit has ruled.

The defendant was convicted of a felony and is currently incarcerated in a federal prison. Because the defendant committed a qualifying offense, the federal DNA Act requires the Bureau
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Most part-time lawyers are women 

By: dmc-admin
Published: December 31, 2008

Women continue to vastly outnumber men among part-time lawyers, and the overall number of attorneys working part time continues to remain low, according to a new survey by the National Association for Law Placement.

Only 5.6 percent of lawyers worked part time in 2008, and about 74
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FDA issues warning about weight loss pills 

By: dmc-admin
Published: December 31, 2008

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to consumers not to purchase or consume more than 25 different weight loss products because they contain undeclared, active pharmaceutical ingredients that may put consumers’ health at risk.

The tainted weight loss products contain sibutramine (a
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Top personal injury stories of 2008 

By: dmc-admin
Published: December 30, 2008

All year long, Lawyers USA follows the biggest news in personal injury law.

Here are some of the personal injury stories our readers clicked the most in 2008.

New Medicare reporting will affect tort settlements

New Medicare reporting requirements for
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2008: The year in practice management, marketing 

By: dmc-admin
Published: December 30, 2008

Like the rest of the nation, lawyers from coast to coast felt the crunch of a devastating recession in 2008. As the economy worsened, firms looked for answers to weather the financial storm.

For many looking to step up marketing efforts in ’08, that meant getting
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DC lobbyist files $27M suit against New York Times 

By: dmc-admin
Published: December 30, 2008

Lawyers for Washington lobbyist Vicki L. Iseman have filed a $27 million defamation lawsuit against The New York Times for a February article about Iseman and her relationship with Sen. John McCain.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Richmond, also names as defendants the executive editor of
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