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September 16, 2011
Business
- Education Student loan default rates jump to 8.8 pct. Sharp increase comes as job prospects are low
- Real Estate Mortgage default warnings surged in August Increase represents biggest monthly gain in 4 years
- Economy Factory output mostly weak in August outside autos Retail sales unchanged
Column
- The Firm: What rainmakers know about persistence
- One Perspective: Michigan should lower its renewable portfolio standard requirements to zero
- On Point: Presidents, purity and polarization
- Taking Stock: For those of you with Apple shares: Sell, sell, sell
Nation
- Nation AP poll: Divisions persist on legal gay marriage
- Supreme Court Notebook
- Internal Revenue Service issues notice on 2010 estates
- ABA Death Penalty Representation Project marks 25 years of service
- National Roundup
- Illinois State high court hears police torture arguments Case could lay groundwork for several similar appeals
- Washington, D.C. Court decides expert may testify in paint fumes trial
Courts
- Supreme Court Watch The term of the century? Blockbuster cases await the U.S. Supreme Court this term
- Maryland Jury awards $5.1 million in lead-poisoning case State's statutory cap on noneconomic damages will reduce award to $1.25M
Feature
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- Civil legal aid lawyers are often the last line of defense. Why are there so few of them?
- Bankruptcy law firm files for Chapter 11 after losing advertising dispute
- Dentons and Boies Schiller face $300M racketeering suit after client loses international arbitration
- Mother’s Day and the changing face of family dynamics and custody arrangements
- Federal judge reprimanded for handcuffing teen spectator in scared-straight approach
- Lawyer whose firm sued Boeing finds emergency slide that fell from company’s plane near his home