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Legal aid bill skyrockets by 19 per cent from last year

New Zealand’s legal aid bill has shot up $30 million over the past year, despite a government shake-up of the legal aid system

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Legal issues hindered Bates’ use of grant, business partner says

The business partner of Stillwater Mayor Nathan Bates says legal issues - including an OSBI investigation - hampered the pair’s plan for the use of money from an Oklahoma State University grant over the past several months.

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Legal Scholarship Doesn’t Always Fall on Deaf Ears, Conclude Law Professors

Two law professors who researched the salience of legal research have concluded that, contrary to conventional wisdom, judges increasingly are citing law review articles in their opinions. Analyzing more than 296,000 reported federal circuit opinions filed between 1950 and 2008, David Schwartz and Lee Petherbridge found increased citation to law review articles during the past 20 years …

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Legal aid cases soar in recession

Legal aid applications increase by 24% in the past year, to their highest level in 10 years.

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L.T. May Stand for Legal Troubles

This past week has been dominated primarily by one story and one man, the former NFL superstar Lawrence Taylor. Taylor has found himself in the midst of yet another whirlwind of legal troubles.

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The Return of Legal Absinthe

For the past three years it has been legal , once again, to sell absinthe in America. So far I have seen no noteworthy spike in violent crime, creativity, or especially wanton debauchery, all of which were purported results of regular absinthe drinking in its heyday, starting in the 1860s. On Bourbon Street in New Orleans, where absinthe consumption rivaled that of France, an early-20th-century …

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Marlborough officials want quicker rulings from Legal Dept. (Marlborough Enterprise)

The Legal Department’s opinions may be more thorough than in the past but it takes too long to deliver them, councilors said this week.

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Marlborough officials want quicker rulings from Legal Dept. (The MetroWest Daily News)

The Legal Department’s opinions may be more thorough than in the past but it takes too long to deliver them, councilors said this week.

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Property appraiser racks up legal bills (Florida Today)

Legal bills for defending Property Appraiser Jim Ford and three top deputies against misconduct and ethics violations over the past four years have cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Fort Hood shooter’s legal motions denied (KXXV Waco)

Fort hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan’s attorney said his client was denied three key legal motions Friday afternoon.

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