Job Title: PresidentEmployer: Ruffin Consulting, Inc., Wilson, NCYears of Paralegal Experience: 20Specialty Areas: Personal Injury, Worker’s CompensationCareer Highlight: Working as a senior litigation paralegal for a large law firm in downtown Dallas, TexasParalegal Practice Tip: Learning to manage ...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LA JUNTA, Colo. — An Amtrak passenger who alarmed fellow passengers in Colorado by allegedly talking about terrorist threats on a cellphone was pulled from the train and faces a felony charge of endangering public transportation. Ojore Nuru Lutalo, 64, who was recently released ...

In order to comply with subscription agreements you will need to use your own Westlaw password to view the full text of cases listed below: Thursday, January 21, 2010    1. People v. Felipe2010 WL 183983, 2010 N.Y. Slip Op. 00386(N.Y.A.D. 1 Dept. Jan 21, 2 ...

Michael Lines previously mentioned Jureeka, the web browser extension that links to legal material online, which can only be used with Firefox and Chrome. Cornell law has launched a similar extension called Citer, but allows integration with IE, Safari, and Opera as well. Bonnie Shucha explains how ...

Legislative action on criminal sentences often appears to be largely a one-way ratchet, with new laws often pushing punishments up and rarely bringing them down.  However, as detailed in , New Jersey is about the buck the trend through a repeal of its school-zone drug laws.  Here are the details: ...

By Steve Lambert, THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG – RCMP say a house fire believed to have killed an 11-year-old boy in a remote Manitoba aboriginal community was set deliberately and a 16-year-old boy has been arrested. Charges had not yet been laid Thursday and the Mounties were tight-lippe ...

Where is Nelson Mandela when we need him? In an especially memorable moment in Clint Eastwood’s fine new film Invictus, South Africa’s first black president (exquisitely portrayed by Morgan Freeman) inspects his first official paycheck. “This is terrible,” Mandela says. He decides he earns too muc ...

Since Chapter 11 Trustee Edward Cahn's lawyer, Bonnie Fatell, reportedly opined at the most recent bankruptcy hearing that SCO would never have given away its Unix intellectual property rights to UnitedLinux, I thought I would show you exactly what was in UnitedLinux -- some, if not all, of the ver ...

William Armstrong and Joe Lin got a patent, 5,645,515, for a particular type of stilt used in construction, requiring a "resiliently lined yoke." Each formed a company for selling stilts: Armstrong created Southland Supply, while Lin sprouted Forest Group. "Southland sold stilts to Bon Tool, a ...

Blank Rome has filed an Amended Exhibit A to their first bill: 12/22/2009 - 996 - Exhibit - Amended Exhibit A Summary Sheets (Professional Background and Project Codes) to First Combined Monthly Fee Application of Blank Rome LLP For the Period of August 25, 2009 Through October 31, 2009 (related d ...