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The Supreme Court Decides the Constitutionality of Obamacare

The Supreme Court Decides the Constitutionality of Obamacare

In a recent development that should shock no one, the U.S. Supreme Court this morning agreed to review the constitutionally of President Barack Obama’s signature policy achievement, which is the…

Baker & Daniels Adds Two Partners to Chicago Office

Baker & Daniels Adds Two Partners to Chicago Office

Baker & Daniels LLP has added two partners to its Chicago office, J. Patrick Fitzsimmons and Brenda J. Robinson. Fitzsimmons focuses his transactional practice on health care, medical device, biotech…

Firms Hire MDs To Combat Government Suits Over Medicare Billing

Firms Hire MDs To Combat Government Suits Over Medicare Billing

As posted at Forbes.com, more and more law firms are putting doctors on the payroll to aid in the defense of government suits against their own physician clients for fraudulent…

King & Spalding Adds Practice Head from Sidley Austin

King & Spalding Adds Practice Head from Sidley Austin

King & Spalding has snatched Patrick Morrissey, a former partner at Sidley Austin, who joins the firm as a partner and co-chair of its FDA/life sciences practice in Washington D.C.…

Nevada Governor Throws Health Care Hail Mary

Nevada Governor Throws Health Care Hail Mary

Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto has refused to join the suit against the Health Care Law that President Obama signed late last month.  Cortez Masto wrote in a letter…

Government Investigating Insurance Company

Government Investigating Insurance Company

The government is investigating the health insurance company Humana over a mailer it recently sent out regarding health care reform. In the mailer, the company included some dubious claims that…

Cravath Defers 2010 Associate Class to 2011; Offers Sweet Deferal Option to 2009ers

Cravath Defers 2010 Associate Class to 2011; Offers Sweet Deferal Option to 2009ers

Cravath, which in March deferred its 150-member incoming associate class to October or November 2009 or January 2010, has some more deferring to do. First: the 2009 class is being…

Howrey Lays Off 25 Staff

Howrey Lays Off 25 Staff

Washington DC’s Howrey has laid off 25 secretarial staffers. Cuts came in all offices except Palo Alto and New York. Those affected are getting severance packages, health care assistance and…

Barnes & Thornburg Expands into Georgia

Barnes & Thornburg Expands into Georgia

Indianapolis-based Barnes & Thornburg has opened its eighth office, in Atlanta, Georgia. Stuart C. Johnson and Jason A. Bernstein, previously partners in the Atlanta office of Bryan Cave, will join…

Attorney Cannot Be Prosecuted Over Bad Advice

Attorney Cannot Be Prosecuted Over Bad Advice

A lawyer facing criminal charges for advising 10 nurses they could quit their jobs at a Long Island, NY nursing facility gave “objectively reasonable” advice and cannot be prosecuted, a…

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