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With economy tight, even lawyers get outsourced
The Wall Street JournalAs the economic crisis deepens in the U.S., some lawyers are making out well -- in India. At the Mumbai subsidiary of outsourcer Pangea3 LLC, rows of Indian lawyers at new computers pore over contracts, covenants and other financial documents. They're...Tags: Lawyers, Consumer Electronics Industry, Forrester Research Incorporated, Legal Services, Business Enterprises
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Pawlowski faces challenge on legal spending
Of The Morning CallAllentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski has spent at least $940,000 in legal fees over the past two years with little oversight by City Council, but that may soon change if council's president gets his wish. The city charter gives the mayor the power to hire...Tags: Ed Pawlowski, Trials, Lawyers, Contracts, Litigation and Regulation
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As mortgages went bad, executives cashed out
The subprime lending industry was starting to buckle under the weight of bad loans in November 2006, when executives at Irvine-based New Century Financial Corp. held a conference call to release their latest earnings.
Loan volume was down and defaults...Tags: Financial and Business Services, Merrill Lynch & Company Inc., Lawyers, Laws, Prices
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Layoffs Loom At Legal Aid
The décor at Greater Hartford Legal Aid is nothing to write home about. The rooms are that light gray that leached onto office walls back in the '80s. A plain rack holds brochures in English and Spanish for tenants who think they've been wronged, for...Tags: Lawyers, Unemployment, Layoffs and Downsizing, Legal Services, Business Enterprises
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Employees Sue The Hartford Over Retirement-Plan Stock Losses
With all its troubles, The Hartford is now facing a barrage of litigation from its own employees, who have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in their retirement savings plan by investing in the company's stock. At least one law firm sued The...Tags: Trials, The Hartford Financial Services Group Incorporated, Legal Services, Litigation, Retirement
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Robinson & Cole To Add 30 Lawyers From Disbanding Firm Thelen
A national consolidation in the legal services industry that has been deepened by the economic downturn is benefiting one of Hartford's largest law firms. Robinson & Cole said Friday that it will add more than 30 lawyers, including nine partners, from...Tags: Lawyers, Labor Legislation, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Legal Services, Business Enterprises
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Now, spouse of pension collector quits LI law firm
Spin CycleThe campaign dustup over GOP attempts to link in Sen. Craig Johnson, who's of-counsel to a well-connected Garden City law firm, has ended -- but the pension saga moves on. Here's an update from Newsday's Eden Laikin: The husband......Tags: Craig Johnson, Oyster Bay (Oyster Bay, New York), Interior Policy, Labor Legislation, Legal Services
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State Senate, 6th District
KEMP HANNON REPUBLICAN BACKGROUND: Hannon, 62, is also running on the Independence and Conservative parties lines. He had been in the Assembly before being elected to the Senate in 1989, He is chairman of the Health Committee. He is counsel to Farrell...Tags: State Budgets, Legal Services, Kemp Hannon, Local Authority, Garden City (Garden City, New York)
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Dodd's Campaign Money Shift Raises Questions
Sen. Christopher Dodd's bewildering odyssey of entitlement, evasions and deceptions continued last week. He shed more credibility as he staggered through new excuses for concealing from the public documents related to his cut-rate mortgages of nearly...Tags: Parliament, Kevin Rennie, Values, Robert G Torricelli, Countrywide Financial Corp.
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Cutbacks at firms worry landlords
Tribune reporterTribune reporter Layoffs at Chicago law firms have sent a shudder through the commercial real estate market. In the past five years, law firms have been a primary driver of the downtown real estate expansion. Several of Chicago's largest firms,...Tags: Rentals, Office and Retail Spaces, Layoffs and Downsizing, Legal Services, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
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Recession Cutting Legal Aid Services For Poor
Stephanie D'Ambrose spoke with the Maryland attorney general's office Wednesday about a case — her case — that could help countless thousands of apartment tenants fight off eviction by Fannie Mae. D'Ambrose and another lawyer at Greater...Tags: Fannie Mae, Lawyers, Legal Services, Injuries, Business Enterprises
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