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The Monroe County Bar Association is asking members of the local legal community to come together under one tent for the 2010 Corporate Challenge.

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Even though the bankruptcy discharge of student loans require a finding of undue hardship in an adversarial proceeding, a lender cannot challenge the discharge of a loan absent such a finding if it was not appealed in a timely manner, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week.

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Race remains an important — and an awkward — subject in the United States, which makes it that much harder for lawyers to address with jurors. Should racial issues always be presented to jurors?

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a single Brady violation committed by a district attorney’s office is sufficient to impose failure-to-train liability.

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NEW YORK CITY — A former high level executive at IBM is likely to enter a plea to end the case against him after agreeing to waive indictment in what prosecutors call the largest insider trading case in hedge fund history.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal court has at least temporarily lifted government rules that prohibit media companies from owning a newspaper and a broadcast TV station in the same market.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether an oral complaint about a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act is protected conduct under the statute’s anti-retaliation provision.

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The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide how some bankruptcy payment plans are calculated. The case involves a 10th Circuit ruling, which said that a Chapter 13 debtor’s pre-petition income ...

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New York State Court of Appeals Associate Judge Eugene F. Pigott Jr. will speak at SUNY Brockport on April 8 as part of the Thomas J. Gosdeck Lecture Series in Civic Engagement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether the leading federal agency that referees labor-management disputes can make decisions when it only has two people sitting ...

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Success at trial largely depends on how your witnesses perform and what happens when your client takes the stand. While many attorneys attempt to prepare their witnesses ...

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The heads of New York State economic development agencies are warning business leaders about a bill proposed in the state Legislature that would limit the effectiveness of industrial development agencies ...

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