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New data released today by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated , the nation's leading provider of employment-related drug testing services, reveal that drug testing of hair specimens from employees and job applicants in the general U.S. workforce has tracked sharp downward trends in cocaine and methamphetamine use from 2005 to the first half of 2009 ...

The Mississippi Court of Appeals has granted a retrial for Covington & Burling LLP client Cory Maye, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2001 shooting of a police officer that occurred during a narcotics task force search of Mr.

The increased computerization in U.S. hospitals hasn't made them cheaper or more efficient, Harvard researchers say, although it may have modestly improved the quality of care for heart attacks.

Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc., a network of independent law firms, said Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission may sue the company over allegedly misleading representations made by its identity theft prevention program.

Instead of allowing Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. to collapse, the government could have stood by the beleaguered bank and helped it unwind slowly, bankruptcy lawyer Harvey Miller, who represented Lehman for Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, told Matt Miller, senior writer at The Deal.

Inaccuracies in stimulus-tracking data on Recovery.gov do exist, but overall the transparency effort has been a success, says a special advisor to the President.

NEW BLOOD: Kyle M. Wiggins, an associate at the Memphis office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, is taking the helm of the Memphis Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division tonight at the YLD's annual meeting and elections.

Residential construction in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped in October amid concern a homebuyer tax credit would expire, illustrating the marketa s dependence on government help to sustain a recovery as job losses mount.

Simon Property Group Inc. has engaged financial and legal advisers to explore the possibility of acquiring assets from General Growth Properties Inc.

The Carey Business School will occupy four floors of the Legg Mason Tower. By Hanah Cho November 18, 2009 The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School is relocating to the Legg Mason Tower, becoming the latest tenant to move from Baltimore's downtown to Harbor East 's waterfront.

Texans: Are you really married? Maybe not. Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for state attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state.

Winston & Strawn is planning to open offices in Beijing and Shanghai after getting approval for the expansion by the country's Ministry of Justice.

Barclays is facing a $12bn lawsuit from the liquidators of Lehman Brothers over allegations the British bank unfairly benefited from a "windfall profit" when it bought the investment bank's US arm at the height of the financial crisis in September 2008.

In a NYT article titled In House, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyistsa , Robert Pear discusses how numerous Congressman had remarks which were written by a lobbyist "written in" to the Congressional Record.

Proskauer Rose has elected four new partners. The four new partners are Sarah Cherry, a corporate lawyer in Boston, Baldassare Vinti and James Gregory in New York and Amy Covert in Newark.

If the planned merger of Hogan & Hartson and Lovells becomes a reality, the new firm will be called Hogan Lovells.

In late summer, with polls pointing to victory, Bob McDonnell may have realized his No.

World stocks rose on Monday while gold, oil and other commodities rallied as upbeat economic data and a weakening dollar underpinned raw material prices and related shares.

A Federal Reserve official said on Monday that the U.S. economy still faced "significant weaknesses" and urged policymakers to allow large financial institutions to fail if needed.

Often those tenants, who had been paying their rent on time, had no idea the property was in delinquency or facing foreclosure until they received notice to evict.