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When Hurricane Sandy struck the east coast of the United States on Oct. 29, it didn’t take lawyers in New York long to organize a way to help victims of the superstorm with an expanding range of legal issues. Bar associations in the state as well as some of the biggest law firms in New York are recruiting attorneys to offer pro bono legal assistance to New Yorkers whose lives and property were devastated by the storm – the second …

Superstorm Sandy struck the East Coast with a vengeance last week, unleashing heavy winds and flooding that wrecked the Jersey Shore, battered New York City and left millions without electricity. The storm left unprecedented destruction up and down the Atlantic seaboard: At least 110 people were killed and 8 million left without electricity in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy’s passage through the United States Residential communities on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island were nearly wiped out by surging waves and …

Missouri is the state where the supreme court most recently struck down damage cap laws that hurt consumers when they file a medical malpractice or injury lawsuit. See the state-by-state chart below. The laws were enacted as part of an anti-consumer movement in the law known as “tort reform.” Starting in the 1970s, it was designed to severely cut awards  made by juries. At the request of Lawyers.com, attorneys Walter H. Boone,  J. Chase Bryan, and Jordan McKibben of the …

Hurricane Sandy is putting a beatdown on the North Atlantic states today, with flooding and wind damage already occurring in some areas and the storm expected to intensify into the evening. Some 60 million people live in the hurricane’s path, while New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and other cities have all but shut down for the duration of the storm. Homeowners and renters hopefully have already hunkered down with enough food, water and emergency supplies to ride out the storm …

Most of us grew up thinking that bedbugs were make-believe, like the monster under the bed. Unfortunately, they are not. With the prohibition of the pesticide DDT and the increase in global travel, bedbugs have returned in force to infest dwellings and public spaces throughout the United States. Treatment for bedbugs can be expensive. Laws regarding the rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants in a bedbug situation vary greatly. A few states and many cities have addressed the issue. …