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Conservatives are in danger of letting left wing groups define their own agenda.

About 94 percent of Massachusetts homebuyers and sellers worked through a real-estate professional in 2011, according to a recent National Association of Realtors study.

Although much of the attention is on the main stage at each year's Conservative Political Action Conference, it's the side events where the real kookiness occurs.

An international governmental affairs law firm is expanding its Sacramento presence, signing a big lease for more downtown office space.

"With Duane Morris on board for the next three years as a Global Growth Partner, ACG will gain intellectual capital and a world-class partner that shares ACG's goal of elevating the discussion around private capital, corporate growth, governance and business strategy," said Gary LaBranche, FASAE, CAE, president and CEO of ACG.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, right, talks about his budget proposal during a news conference, Thursday, Feb.

Covington & Burling is to open an office in Shanghai, following the hire of five lawyers from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

In her fifties when she graduated in 1996 magna cum laude from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, she has no regrets about earning her juris doctorl degree.

A former associate at Cravath Swaine & Moore yesterday had his law license suspended for three years by a New York appeals court due to his earlier conviction in a domestic assault on his girlfriend.

Fred Gray and Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center attend a dinner to honor Gray on Thursday at the Embassy Suites in Montgomery.

Data released by the U.S. Treasury on a monthly basis that accounts for the surpluses or deficits of the federal government.

The merger announcement from Glencore International PLC and Xstrata PLC this week turned heads because the combination of a commodities trading powerhouse and a major miner, especially those of such size and scope, is a rarity, but if the move succeeds, more may follow.

After suspension, Michael Zulandt won't be working in a courtroom - as a lawyer, anyway - for at least three years.

Facebook executives have fallen silent. Having filed paperwork on Feb. 1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering, the social network site is now in a "quiet period" where federal rules limit what company executives can say in public.

The ultra-classy department store, beloved by Carrie Bradshaw and gay men on both coasts, has hired restructuring/bankruptcy law firm Kirkland & Ellis to help renegotiate a $200 million loan due in September, reports WWD .

Here's news from Steven Haas of Hunton & Williams ...: In recent days, shareholders have filed several class action complaints in Delaware .... The litigation will require Delaware courts to review a bylaw that would increase Delaware's market share of corporate litigation.

Christopher L. Garcia, the chief of the Southern District U.S. attorney's securities and commodities task force, will leave the office on Feb.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is poised to launch a dedicated German capital markets offering in Frankfurt with the hiring of a two-partner team from Shearman & Sterling.

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How do those schools - with so much conference history - stack up to each other by the numbers? Athletic department expenses can be an indicator of the level of commitment to competing at the highest level in college athletics.