An inexcusable smear on lawyers
JAMES MORTON
National Post
30 Jul 2007

nder Canadian law, group libel is not actionable. No matter how malicious or false a comment about a group is, the comment cannot give rise to damages. You may safely call all bankers thieves – even if identifying just one of them by name would make... read more...

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Multiple lawsuits remain after the verdict
BY PAUL WALDIE
The Globe and Mail Weekend
14 Jul 2007

Conrad Black faces a mountain of lawsuits that could keep him tied up in court for years. More than a dozen legal proceedings were suspended until the criminal trial ended. With the verdict now in, many of those legal actions will resume in... read more...

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Dann’s picks include donors
By James Nash
The Columbus Dispatch
14 Jul 2007

About a third of the lawyers that Attorney General Marc Dann has brought on to represent the state have donated to his political campaigns, a Dispatch analysis shows. Of the 151 lawyers green- lighted by Dann as part of a new process designed to end “... read more...

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Bancroft lawyers hold key to Dow Jones
By Matthew Karnitschnig
The Wall Street Journal Europe
02 Jul 2007

THE BANCROFT FAMILY may own a controlling stake in Dow Jones & Co., but the final decision on whether to sell the publisher of The Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch could well be made by a small circle of longtime family lawyers in downtown... read more...

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