Late last year, Judge Rosenbaum a federal judge in Minneapolis, preliminarily approved a proposed settlement in a large shareholder class-action against UnitedHealth Group. Several weeks later, lawyers for two shareholders filed a late objection to the settlement, arguing that the fees for class counsel – $110 million – was excessive. Judge Rosenbaum issued a final [...]
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Adoption Saturday, November 21st in Ames
Story County will be one the sites in Iowa for the nationwide Adoption Saturday, this November 21st. Adoption hearings will be held at the Ames Municipal building, 515 Clark Avenue. This special event will run from 8:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. (Noon). I will be one of the lead attorneys handling most of the adoptions [...]
Squeaking by on $300,000
If the Washington Post hoped to give readers something to talk about, it couldn’t have done better than to publish a front-page piece on Sunday about a woman living in a tony New York suburb who’s squeaking by on $300,000 a year.
The piece has generated nearly a thousand comments, mostly negative, from readers outraged that [...]
Preschoolers Can Suffer Chronic Depression: Study
By Frank James
A new study reaches the at once fascinating and troubling result that preschoolers as young as three can suffer one of the most debilitating mental illnesses we know of: chronic depression.
An Associated Press story reports some of the study’s main details:
The study is billed as the first to show major depression can be [...]
Adoption Scam
‘Horrifying,’ Mom Says Of Seeing Son’s Photo In Online Adoption Scam
By Mark Memmott
Jenni Brennan of Abington, Mass., tells WCVB-TV in Boston that it was “horrifying” to see her son’s photo being used in an online adoption scam.
Seven-month-old Jacob was safe at home, but someone had lifted his photo from her blog and was sending it [...]
The End of Big Law
Giant firms fall prey to the hubris that infected their corporate clients.
By DOUGLAS MCCOLLAM
An unrelenting tide of bad news has swept over corporate America in the last year—and with unemployment continuing to climb, anemic earnings, and the sound of long knives being applied to the whetstone in Washington, things show no sign of looking up. [...]