Lawyer Indicted for Forging Will of Brother Killed in Plane Crash

A well-known Allentown, Pa., lawyer was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on charges of fabricating wills to add himself as a beneficiary after his brother, also a lawyer, and sister-in-law were killed in a February 2007 plane crash.

The indictment charges that attorney John Karoly Jr., 58, conspired with his son, John "J.P." Karoly III, 28, and a doctor, John J. Shane, 72, to present fake wills in Northampton County Orphans' Court that showed Shane as the sole witness.

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Erin Brockovich Working for Small N.Y. Law Firm

The legal crusader portrayed by Julia Roberts in the Oscar-winning film "Erin Brockovich" is now working for a Manhattan personal injury law firm that specializes in asbestos cases.

The real Erin Brockovich signed a consulting contract with Weitz & Luxenberg and will be involved in soliciting cases and investigating claims. Brockovich told the New York Post: "I'm hands-on and they're hands-on so it will be a team effort."

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Legal Departments, Law Firms Weighing Wikis

A little over a year and a half ago, Sun Microsystems' in-house legal department was in the midst of overhauling its internal Web site.

Gregory Bennett, a program manager in charge of Sun's internal and external legal Web sites, was talking to general counsel Michael Dillon about how the company could better track the age and origin of staff-written content on its internal site when the Sun GC suggested trying something new.

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Ex-Biopure Executive Falsely Told Court He Had Cancer, US Alleges

A former executive of a Cambridge-based biotech company lied to a federal judge when he said he was gravely ill from colon cancer - an attempt to dodge a costly federal lawsuit over problems stemming from an experimental synthetic blood product, federal officials said yesterday.

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Settling More Lucrative Than Going to Trial, Study Shows

Plaintiffs who go to trial may not realize just how big of a gamble they are making when they decline a settlement offer.

A new study that will appear in the upcoming edition of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies finds that settling is generally more lucrative than taking a case to trial.

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States, medical groups oppose abortion rule

WASHINGTON (AP) - Several medical associations and 13 state attorneys general voiced their opposition Wednesday to a proposed federal rule that they fear would open the door for hospitals and physicians to deny access to contraception.

In late August, the Bush administration proposed stronger job protections for doctors and other health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions because of religious or moral objections. Abortion foes called it a victory for the First Amendment, but abortion rights supporters said they feared the rule could stretch the definition of abortion to include birth control.

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Yemen attack shows Qaeda rebound in key country

This week's attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen shows al Qaeda's ability to regroup in a strategically important country and further underscores a shift in the group's focus from Iraq, analysts said.

It is a reminder that the United States will have to keep fighting al Qaeda on multiple fronts even if Iraq -- cast by the Bush administration as the central front in its war on terrorism -- calms down.

"Al Qaeda's most senior leaders have called for attacks in Yemen and elsewhere in the region, and extremist groups in Yemen have made it known in words and terrible misdeeds that they are willing to murder innocent civilians," a U.S. counterterrorism official said.

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Cabinet disagreements threaten Zimbabwe unity deal

President Robert Mugabe and his political rivals have been unable to agree on how to share key Cabinet posts, an opposition spokesman said Thursday, in a sign that deep and bitter divisions were threatening a watershed unity government agreement.

Nelson Chamisa of the Movement for Democratic Change said a meeting of party leaders broke up with no resolution and deputies had been asked to keep negotiating.

Mugabe's party "is claiming all the powerful ministries," Chamisa said. "That is why there couldn't be agreement and it's being referred back to the negotiators."

He said the ministries in contention included home affairs, which directs police forces that have been accused of political violence. Mugabe remains commander in chief, so the opposition was likely to insist on control of at least some security forces.

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