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So Peggy Noonan went to the Fainting Couch Superstore over the IRS this week and got a few new pieces .

Ralph Baxter is not sure if his future includes service in the U.S. Senate, but he believes the future of 154 new Bethany College graduates can be bright.

Stoel Rives LLP, a leading U.S. business law firm, said May 6 that it is pleased to announce that Tina Grovier has joined its Anchorage office as a partner in the firm's Environment, Land Use and Natural Resources group.

James Robenalt is a partner at Thompson Hine and has joined with John W. Dean, Nixon's White House Counsel, to create a national continuing education program entitled "The Watergate CLE." For three years I have worked with John Dean, Nixon's White House counsel, on an ethics program for lawyers .

St. Louis-based Bryan Cave, the area's second-largest law firm ranked by its 253 local licensed attorneys, is Patriot's restructuring and corporate counsel.

Robert Walker, attorney at Wiley Rein LLP, talks with Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia about the legal and ethical implications of law firms selling political intelligence.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has announced plans to open an office in Hong Kong with a partner recruited from Korean law firm Kim & Chang.

Effective legal project management is on the minds of law departments, outside counsel, and the business units that partner with both sets of lawyers.

Tougaloo College is starting an 18-month commemoration of the civil rights movement, 50 years after the effort helped reshape the American political and social landscape.

"You hold the keys to the gates of justice," said Dees, founder and chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

LONDON and NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- London and New York City have experienced a massive tech boom in the last few years and are now serious competitors with Silicon Valley.

A San Francisco lawyer and former U.S. Justice Department official was confirmed to a judgeship on the U.S. District Court in San Francisco by the U.S. Senate today.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian government approved a decision on the signing of an agreement with an international organization on the provision of legal advisory services.

Fenwick & West has hired a corporate partner to lay the groundwork for an office in China -- the firm's first overseas.

Need further evidence that the economy continues to improve? The four-week moving average weekly jobless claims number has dropped to 336,750, its since November 2007.

"[Crowdfunding] lays the riskiest investments at the doorstep of those investors that can least afford the risk.

By Meisha Perrin Greater Miami is running so low on hotel inventory that attorney Daniel Marinberg of Greenberg Traurig says it isn't meeting demand.

Falling output across the bloc meant the 17-nation economy is in its longest recession since records began in 1995.

General Lighting Co, a Saudi Arabian company part-owned by Carlyle Group, plans to sell its shares on the Saudi stock market, paving the way for the private equity firm to exit its stake, two sources said.

For the fifth year in a row, U.S. employers have seen an increase in the number of wage-and-hour lawsuits filed against them in federal court, according to calculations by the Federal Judicial Center.