Patton Boggs expands mortgage practice
Law firm Patton Boggs LLP has expanded its reach into the financial services arena in Dallas, with several new attorneys joining the firm to enhance its mortgage banking practice. This comes as the government and businesses grapple with regulatory guidelines and litigation related to a tide of changes in the mortgage industry. feeds.bizjournals.com |
Supreme Court will give a peep into the land of the obscure
It is a supreme irony that two of the first cases before the new Supreme Court will be veiled in secrecy — for its main selling point was that it would enable justice to be seen to be done. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |
At trial, two pictures of Bruno painted
Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys painted starkly different pictures of Joseph L. Bruno as his criminal trial began on Nov 2. bizjournals.com |
Should Knox’s trial even have reached the courtroom?
What is it about Amanda Knox that leaves us so unsettled? Is it her outré sexuality, catalogued so faithfully by the media ever since, on November 6, 2007, she found herself implicated in the murder of her flatmate, Meredith Kercher? Was it the cartwheels and the splits that she apparently performed in a Perugia police station while awaiting police questioning? Perhaps, it’s no more complicated than her nickname: “Foxy Knoxy”, redolent of enigmatic, Mona Lisa-like insouciance in the face of a tawdry, sordid, pitiful sex murder. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |
Tanner unveils e-security plan
LABOR'S razor gang has struck again, this time taking aim at around a dozen online authentication services. australianit.news.com.au |