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On October 30, 2013, Brazilian oil company OGX Petróleo e Gas Participações SA (OGX) filed for bankruptcy protection (or “judicial reorganization”) in Rio de Janeiro after restructuring discussions between the company and its major creditors ended...

Last week, Works Design Group highlighted five vodka bottle designs to love. No doubt, a nice collection of very creative work. This stacked ice cube design is my favorite from their set......

While not prohibited by the General Corporation Law, a board comprised of an even number of directors suffers from one potential disability. It can become deadlocked. When that unfortunate situation arises, there are options....

On October 15, 2013, a divided three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit rendered a federal False Claims Act ("FCA") judgment against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals ("Bayer"), based on a qui tam relator's...

The warranty in the electronics business is gravy for the retailers who sell it. You’ll be surprised how many people pay $20 to get a warranty on a $100 Blu-Ray player. When Best Buy was going national, they advertised how they wouldn’t sell...

Courthouses are readying for an onslaught of couples looking to get married on 11/12/13. In Kane County outside of Chicago, judges are performing weddings for walk-ins this afternoon, though weddings are usually by appointment on Tuesdays, the Daily Herald reports.

Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has spent decades in a wheelchair since being shot on March 6, 1978 as he stood on the steps of a Georgia courthouse in which he was facing an obscenity prosecution.

Lawyers for the accused Boston Marathon bomber will ask a judge today to loosen the restrictions on his confinement. Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev claim the “special administrative measures” imposed by the government are hampering their defense, Reuters reports.

Indiana University law professor Bill Henderson predicts no shot will ever be fired to fight the nonlawyer revolution in U.S. legal services.

A convicted murderer scheduled to die in Ohio on Thursday is asking to donate his organs to family members suffering from kidney disease and a heart condition.

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