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Creditors of Florida Law Firm File Bankruptcy Case (Update1) (Bloomberg)

Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Creditors of the Florida law firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler PA, whose co-founder is suspected of running a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, sought to push the firm into bankruptcy. Source


Glut of Law Firm Office Space Hits 6 Million Square Feet (Law.com)

Looking for some law firm office space? Well, there's plenty to be had. A recent survey by real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle showed that more than 6 million square feet of built-out law firm office space is available throughout the country -- the most vacant space in recent memory. Source


ABA Proposes Law Student Loan Relief (Law.com)

The American Bar Association is lobbying the Obama administration and Congress to extend relief to recent law school graduates who went into debt to finance their legal educations but haven't been able to find a job because of the recession. Source


College of Law to open in Bristol (BBC News)

The College of Law announces it is to open its first centre at a cost of £1.2m in Bristol. Source


Major Pittsburgh-based law firm cutting salaries (AP via Yahoo! News)

The Pittsburgh-based law firm Reed Smith is delaying hiring new attorneys, who will see their entry-level salaries cut by nearly 20 percent when they join the firm in January. Source


Israel mulls draft refugee law (AFP via Yahoo! News)

A draft law stipulating that any Middle East peace treaty must mention compensation for Jews forced to leave Arab states has passed a preliminary reading in the Israeli parliament, a spokesman said on Wednesday. Source


1 million protest easing abortion law (UPI)

MADRID, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- More than 1 million people joined a march in Madrid Saturday to protest an effort to make Spain's law on abortion less restrictive, organizers said. Source


Protesters rally against Italian anti-immigration law (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Tens of thousands of anti-racism demonstrators took to the streets of Rome on Saturday to denounce a new law passed by Silvio Berlusconi's government which makes illegal immigration a criminal offence. Source


Review: 'Law Abiding Citizen' (Los Angeles Times)

Justice is just a word -- an oft-repeated one -- in this revenge retread. We know that Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) loves his daughter because in the opening moments of "Law Abiding Citizen," we see him happily making bead necklaces with her. Then there's a knock on the door, a baseball bat to the head and Clyde watches helplessly as his wife and little girl are raped and murdered during a home ... Source


Hotel packages honor mothers-in-law (USA Today)

Mothers-in-law are the butt of more jokes than we have room to print. But they've been getting some respect with their own day (Oct. 25 this year). Source