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Evolving Field of Family Law Leads to New Players in a Changing Society

Washington, DC—When she started out the legal profession in the 1980s, Leslie Weber Hoffman was assigned family law cases because no one else at her firm wanted to handle them.  “I was assigned the cases because I was the woman attorney and the newest,” she recalled in a recent interview with laws-info.com. Soon ...

The Public Health Crisis that is Gun Violence - The Violence Policy Center on the Importance of Gun Control

This month, the Senate blocked a plan for expanded background checks on gun purchases. This plan was supposed to extend background checks to those who purchase their firearms online or at gun gun shows, but failed to receive the 60 votes needed to pass in the Senate, receiving only 54 votes in favor and 46 against. Sen. Dianne Feinstein ...

Addressing the Misconceptions of Bankruptcy: Gregory Messer

More on News at IsLAWS.com Brooklyn, NY—in 1980, after taking a bankruptcy law course, Gregory Messer switched gears and became a bankruptcy attorney, and has never looked back.   Becoming a bankruptcy lawyer was unexpected for Gregory Messer, one of Brooklyn's most credentialed attorneys working to ...

Top Notch Divorce Attorney Speaks Of Changing Times and Idealism

Alexandria, VA—While today's law school classes often graduate more women than men, when Ilona Grenadier got her start in 1967, women lawyers were much rarer. “Because I was the only woman in my law firm, they gave me all the domestic cases,” Grenadier recalled of her first job in a recent interview with laws-info ...

SEC Names Anne Small as General Counsel

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Anne Small has been named General Counsel of the federal agency.    Ms. Anne Small comes to Securities and Exchange Commission from the White House Counsel’s Office where she served as a special assistance to the President and Associate Counsel to the President ...

Stocks Bounce Back

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Time to Start Worrying: Apple’s Profit Slips 18 Percent

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Exposing the Dangers of Easy Credit: Ronald Lundquist

More on News at IsLAWS.com Eagan, MN—For Ronald Lundquist, a bankruptcy attorney in Minnesota's Twin Cities area, a career in bankruptcy law evolved from work collecting debts from consumers. “Before I went to law school, I was a bill collector for a number of years,” Lundquist told laws.com ...

Bankruptcy Attorney, Rebecca Millouras-Lettre Isn’t Afraid of Credit Card Companies

More on News at IsLAWS.com Kingston, NY—As a practicing bankruptcy attorney, Rebecca Millouras-Lettre has seen the true and heartbreaking effects of the economy's downturn on consumers and business owners alike. “New and old businesses are going under—no one is above it,” Milouras-Lettre ...

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