http://VerdictOne.com/lawblog Legal Issues for Consumers Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:30:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A recently retired BigLaw partner has a suggestion for would-be associates interviewing for jobs with law firms. Writing for the American Lawyer, former Kirkland & Ellis partner Steven Harper says job hunters may be trying to figure out whether a law firm is a good fit. Toward that end, he ... http://VerdictOne.com/lawblog/?p=20421 Patricia M. Sheridan (Assistant Professor of Law, Manhattan College) recently published her article entitled Effect of Tax Apportionment Clauses on Nontestamentary Assets, 43 Tr. & Est. L. Sec. Newsl. 13 (Summer 2010). An excerpt from the introduction is below: This... http://VerdictOne.com/lawblog/?p=20422 New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker today alerted consumers that Tiger King Inc., located at 56-09 56th Drive, Maspeth, New York is recalling “Rehmat” brand Apricots due to the presence of undeclared sulfites. People who have severe sensitivity to sulfites may run the risk of serious or ... http://VerdictOne.com/lawblog/?p=20420 A battle between an elderly heiress to the l'Oreal cosmetics fortune and her estranged daughter for control of the mother's finances has exploded into a series of investigations concerning possible money laundering and tax evasion and questionable political contributions. But rather than being a potential target of the probe, heiress ... http://VerdictOne.com/lawblog/?p=20419 Following a two-year investigation by Belgian police, authorities have reportedly raided Internet service providers in approximately 14 European countries, in an effort to shut down websites that violate copyright laws by facilitating illegal peer-to-peer downloading of games, software and, in particular, movies. The raids, which focused on "The Scene" in ... http://VerdictOne.com/lawblog/?p=20418 A coalition of civil rights groups and criminal defense attorneys has sued the Department of Homeland Security over its alleged border searches and seizures, without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing, of the laptop computers, cell phones and other electronic devices of some 6,600 people. About half of those subjected to such ... http://VerdictOne.com/lawblog/?p=20416 This morning, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia issued its highly anticipated ruling in a hotly contested cell phone location privacy case. EFF filed a friend-of-the-court brief and participated at oral argument in the case, arguing that federal electronic privacy law gives judges the discretion to deny ... http://VerdictOne.com/lawblog/?p=20411 Another lawyer has waded into the mass tort fray over alleged illegal downloading of copyrighted material. Attorney John Steele of Chicago is representing three adult content producers in separate federal court claims against hundreds of unidentified "John Doe" individuals accused of using BitTorrent to pirate material created by the plaintiffs, ... http://VerdictOne.com/lawblog/?p=20406 The light blue plastic wheels on the train cars can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children. http://VerdictOne.com/lawblog/?p=20413 New lawyers having trouble with their job search may want to consider practice in rural America, where they are more likely to see the inside of a courtroom and less likely to be saddled with a big mortgage payment. Eric Cooperstein, a Minneapolis legal ethics lawyer, began thinking about those ... http://VerdictOne.com/lawblog/?p=20407