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This News Center podcast discusses the Citizens United case that allows corporate spending limits to be lifted in elections and what implications the case has on the 2012 election. Numerous alimony reform laws across different states are also explored and put lifetime alimony up for debate. [powerpress]
Continue readingBy Kerrie Spencer, staff writer – February 21, 2012 The law can be a wonderful thing when it works the right way. This is an interesting case for several reasons, not the least of which is that there is still an unresolved question over a recorded jailhouse phone call and prosecutors were slapped for withholding…
Continue readingBy Kerrie Spencer, staff writer – February 15, 2012 There were numerous and challenging intellectual property (IP) lawsuits filed in 2011, and five of the top ones merit to be discussed more than others. Each of them has a lesson that is important for the legal industry and businesses. All of them seem to prove…
Continue readingBy Kristen Friend, staff writer – February 8, 2012 The last few presidential races have been marked by tremendous increases in fundraising and spending. President Obama raised $745 million in 2008, twice what former president Bush raised in 2004 and more than four times what the Bush campaign raised in 2000. [1] With the primary…
Continue readingBy Chris Wilkerson, staff writer – February 1, 2012 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has been on the front end of several legal trends during the past few years from same-sex marriage to health care reform. Last fall, Massachusetts passed sweeping alimony reform laws advocates hoped would bring the commonwealth into the 21st century. The new…
Continue readingBy Kerrie Spencer, staff writer – January 25, 2012 This complex case started out with good intentions, but somewhere along the way things went awry, and now a man may pay for those good intentions with his life. This case involves a Pennsylvania couple suing a high profile medical center after doctors transplanted the woman’s…
Continue readingBy Kerrie Spencer, staff writer – January 17, 2012 We truly live in a global economy with electronic goods and services being traded back and forth all over the world. There seems to be no borders and no limits to what can and cannot be shipped anywhere until now. There is a quiet, yet predictive…
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