President Obama Says He Will Not Tolerate Wrongdoing at IRS

    President Barack Obama on Monday vowed to hold accountable employees of the Internal Revenue Service involved with improperly targeting conservative groups that applied for tax-attempt status.    President Obama said during a briefing with reporters that there is no place for personnel of the IRS ...

Tesla Sales Eclipse Majority of Luxury Automobiles

  The Tesla Model S, which is priced at a substantial $70,000, is now the hottest electric car on the market. In fact, in the first quarter of this year, sales of the Tesla Model S outpaced similar gasoline models from the top three German luxury models. Roughly 5,000 consumers purchased the Model S while a shade over 3,000 purchased ...

Eric Franz: First Class, First Rate, Trial Lawyer and Representation

New York, NY—Eric Franz, a criminal defense attorney in New York City, has built his career on leveling the playing field within the justice system. Fighting for the underdog has become a lifelong passion for Mr. Franz.  “I’ve always been very competitive and I love challenges.  When I was a public defender ...

No Litigation Challenge Too Tough for New York Litigation Specialist

Buffalo, NY—Named “Lawyer of the Year” last year by the Erie County Bar Association, litigation specialist Terry Connors says that he knows he's doing the right job. "I love being a lawyer, and if I had to do it all over again, I would not change my course one bit,” Connors told laws-info.com in ...

Maryland Lawyer Peter Fayne's Path to Criminal Law

Riverdale, MD—Peter Fayne's path to criminal defense law was anything but ordinary. When Fayne started working after law school, he started working as a prosecutor—a role he believed he'd stay in for a lifetime.  “It's what I always wanted to do, and I thought that was where my future would be ...

Gay Marriage Passes in Minnesota House Today

  A crucial vote today in the Minnesota House positioned the state to become the 12th in the United States to permit gay marriages and the first in the Midwest to pass such a law.    The 75 to 59 vote was viewed as the first pivotal step for the bill to become a law; the law would permit same-sex couples to marry ...

Sued: California Accuses JP Morgan of Fraud in Credit-Card Debt Collection

  California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a lawsuit against banking giant JP Morgan on Thursday, alleging that the financial institution engaged in legal and fraudulent debt collection practice against tens of thousands of California residents.  Harris claims that from January of 2008 to April of 2011, JP Morgan ...

Every Person Deserves a Zealous Advocate, Says Texas Criminal Defense Attorney

San Antonio, TX—For Demetrio Duarte, defending people accused of crimes has been a career for over 25 years.  Duarte told laws-info.com in a recent interview that his upbringing made him realize how badly criminal defenders are needed. “Being a young Hispanic male in the 1960s and 1970s in South Texas, I witnessed ...

My Job is To Defend My Clients Not Judge Them, Says NY Criminal Defense Attorney

New York, NY—A. Adam Mehrfar says that the case that reinforced his core beliefs the most involved a client whose beliefs couldn't have been more different from his own. “I had inherited a case from another lawyer, where the client had previously been convicted of homicide and was out on parole,” Mehrfar recalled ...

Californians for Population Stabilization on Immigration

The so-called bipartisan “Gang of Eight” senators has introduced legislation, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, that they say will reform the immigration system. This legislation promises, among other things, to tighten border security and controversially grant legal status to the 11 ...

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