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Homeowners, Clergy, Unions & Others Call on State Attorneys General to Demand Principal Reduction for Underwater Homeowners as Part of Settlement with Banks WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- By writing down all underwater mortgages to market value, the nation's banks could pump $71 billion per year into the economy, create more than one million jobs annually, save families $6,500 per year on mortgage payments, and fix the housing crisis once and for all, according to a new report by The New Bottom Line, a nationwide campaign representing 1,000 faith-based and community organizations that seeks to hold Wall Street accountable and find solutions for struggling and middle-class families.
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TORONTO (AP) - Attorneys representing an 18-year-old Canadian detainee at Guantanamo Bay - accused of killing an American soldier - claimed Wednesday he was tortured by U.S. interrogators. His weeping mother pleaded for his release. Toronto-born Omar Khadr is accused of tossing a grenade that killed a U.S. Special Forces medic while fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan, planting mines to target U.S. convoys and gathering surveillance. He was 15 when captured and 16 when he arrived at the U.S. naval base prison in Cuba in 2002. He has not been charged.
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... any indemnification provision covering attorneys' fees.1 Mr. Kohn testified that he instructed Jose..., Continental Casualty issued a demand in the District Court on Fleming Steel under the t...
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In the face of a growing number of lawsuits hitting Redlands businesses for accessibility violations, the Redlands Chamber of Commerce held a meeting this week to help business owners start to wade through the many laws on the subject and protect themselves from risk. Dan Kaiser, a Certified Access Specialist, held a seminar for local businesses to educate them about some Americans with Disabilities Act requirements and help them begin the process of bringing their shops and offices up to code so they do not receive demand letters from the attorneys who have been targeting Redlands businesses for about a year.
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Despite sobering unemployment numbers across the country, employment for lawyers continues to be promising in the hottest practice areas. Firms are actively hiring attorneys who specialize in the highest- demand niches, according to Charles Volkert, Executive Director at Robert Half Legal, a national legal staffing agency.
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Lawyers are in a unique position to level society's playing field and improve people's lives, yet there is often a wide economic gulf between demand and supply for our services. Rather than blindly accepting this inequity, the legal profession in Memphis has a long tradition of providing free or reduced-fee services on a volunteer (pro bono) basis. Attorneys often help a friend, a favorite waitress or even an unpopular brother-in-law without expecting payment for their time. The Access to Justice Committee of the extends this helping hand to the people who don't know an attorney able to assist with the problems that life presents, such as a landlord who expects rent for an uninhabitable home or a garnishment for hospital bills that wipes out an already meager paycheck.
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Cutbacks, layoffs and furloughs are reported every week - the blog Paper Cuts, which attempts to keep track, tallied more than 1 5,500 American news industry jobs lost last year, and another 2,300 in the first weeks of 2009. Analysts in that time have pointed to a variety of factors by way of explanation - the demise of family-newspaper ownership, and the new influence of profit-seeking shareholders; the dominance of the Internet, and the lack of a viable financial model to help newspapers adapt and support themselves on die Web. Some attorneys suggested that, with the burgeoning number of citizen-journalists and watchdog bloggers showing up at Horvit's IRE workshops, there will be a greater demand for nonprofits and other consolidated groups of legal experts ready and willing to prov...
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Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said he and his counterparts in 16 other states want to demand quicker federal action on preventing invasive species such as Asian carp from migrating between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds. Schuette told The Associated Press that a coalition of state attorneys general reaching from West Virginia to Nevada would push Congress and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to expedite a plan for severing the connection between the two giant drainage basins that engineers constructed a century ago in Chicago rivers and canals.
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