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  • U.S. Supreme Court case could eviscerate consumer class actions Case is expected to turn on whether state laws on unconscionability are viable

    September 2, 2010

    By Sylvia Hsieh The Daily Record Newswire BOSTON, MA -- Class action lawyers who represent consumers and employees are bracing themselves for the possible end of practice as they know it. The cause of their anxiety: a U.S. Supreme Court

  • Money Matters: Moving to bond market a fool's game

    September 2, 2010

    By Robert Smith The Daily Record Newswire Attention, all you bond buyers: With investors moving more money from stocks into bonds than ever before, you are slowly playing a fool’s game as rates sink further to unsustainably low levels. IBM, the world’

  • Minnis Minute: Fair Memories

    September 2, 2010

    By John Minnis Legal News An AP story reminds us that we will not be doing what thousands of us have done every Labor Day weekend for all our lives -- go the Michigan State Fair. Due to a looming $1.8 billion budget deficit, the fair ended its 160-year ru

  • The Firm: Failure to record time overlooked money pit

    September 2, 2010

    By Edward Poll The Daily Record Newswire I recently spoke with an executive whose company produces software to help lawyers record billable time. He discussed failure to record time as a “time leak,” because time is lost — and therefore no

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