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U.S. News & World Report – Best Lawyers released its annual list of Best Law Firms and the following local firms have made the list: Harter Secrest & Emery LLP Barclay Damon LLP Underberg & Kessler LLP Harris Beach PLLC

WASHINGTON – The American Bar Association had no shortage of criticism in its assessment of the Trump administration’s new judicial nominee. Colleagues found Lawrence VanDyke to be “arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-to-day practice,” the ...

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The law offices of William Mattar will kick off its Rescue a Shelter Animal campaign Friday to highlight the importance of rescuing an animal from a local shelter or animal rescue group. The campaign runs through November and features a ...

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When they were finished, it looked as though the Greenwood Village, Colorado, police had blasted rockets through the house. Projectiles were still lodged in the walls. Glass and wooden paneling crumbled on the ground below the gaping holes, and inside, ...

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The trial to determine whether Capital Gazette shooter Jarrod Ramos was legally insane at the time of the attack that left five dead was postponed Wednesday, the day jury selection in the case was set to begin. A new trial ...

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A California businessman was sentenced Wednesday to two months in prison for paying $250,000 in a scam to get his son admitted to the University of Southern California as a fake volleyball recruit, prosecutors announced. Jeffrey Bizzack, 59, of San ...

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WASHINGTON – Democratic investigators have requested testimony from former national security adviser John Bolton in their expanding impeachment probe of President Donald Trump, reaching into the upper echelons of the White House as they prepared to move ahead Thursday with ...

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The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday sued the Justice Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI for records detailing their use of facial-recognition software, arguing that the agencies have secretly implemented a nationwide surveillance technology that threatens Americans’ ...

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Incumbent Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley and challenger Shani Curry Mitchell agree that the winner of the race will be spending a lot of energy on new criminal justice reforms set to take effect in January. Starting next year, ...

NEW YORK — As Exxon faced the prospect of new climate regulations, the energy giant’s leaders sought a full understanding of how they would affect the bottom line, former CEO and ex-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told a court Wednesday ...

ATLANTA — With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was set to be put to death Wednesday, the state’s highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the scheduled execution. Ray Jefferson ...

Maryland has reached a tentative agreement to award about $9 million to five wrongly convicted men, including about $3 million – the state’s largest-ever such settlement – to a man who spent 39 years in prison for a crime he ...

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