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Isolate assets to reduce litigation exposure, lawyers say

Measures to make targets smaller can prevent, soften potential blows of lawsuits
April 26, 2012
Mike McLean
People and businesses with exposed assets can be targets of lawsuits, so it's as important as ever to take preventive countermeasures ahead of time to help protect assets from judgments or even discourage would-be plaintiffs from filing suit, here
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ABA panel stands pat on nonlawyer firm ownership

Decision follows extensive analysis of alternative legal practice structures
April 26, 2012
American Bar Association
The American Bar Association's Commission on Ethics 20/20 has decided not to propose changes to ABA policy prohibiting nonlawyer ownership of law firms. It made the decision at a meeting earlier this month in Washington, D.C.Co-Chairpeople Jamie
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Legal billing rates still sprinting well ahead of inflation

Priciest lawyers widen gap over least expensive counterparts, report finds
April 26, 2012
Marketwire
Despite the economic climate, lawyer billing rates continue to grow well past the rate of inflation, with the most expensive lawyers getting increasingly more expensive, according to the 2012 Real Rate Report.Jointly released last week by Legal
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As tribes grow, legal needs expand

Indian law expertise includes focuses on commerce, intergovernmental complexities
April 26, 2012
Treva Lind
Legal counseling in a practice area called Indian law is growing as U.S. tribes continue to step up economic development, say attorneys here.K&L Gates LLP, a Pittsburgh-based global law firm, does legal work regionally and nationally for owned a
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Employment at large firms grew in '11

Last year's 1.7 percent gain reversed a decline over the two prior years
April 26, 2012
Business Wire
Headcount among the top law firms in the U.S. increased marginally last year, based on data compiled for the National Law Journal's recently published 35th annual ranking of the nation's 250 largest firms.Those top firms collectively employed in
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Next-gen succession

Younger leadership guides Lukins & Annis as firm turns 40
April 26, 2012
Kim Crompton
At age 47, Bryce Wilcox now is one of the oldest members of the management team at Lukins & Annis PS, which is among Spokane's largest law firms and is observing its 40th anniversary this year.Of the three lawyers who make up the firm's revamped
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Spokane HVAC company opens North Idaho office

R&R Heating leases space in Hayden for satellite, moves five workers there
April 26, 2012
Mike McLean
Spokane-based R&R Heating & Air Conditioning Inc. has opened a satellite office in North Idaho.Randy Hastings, owner of R&R Heating, says five employees work out of the 1,200-square-foot space at 9030 N. Hess, in Hayden."I felt the need to an
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Inland Asphalt bids lowest for $1.6 million road rehab

Project involves repaving several residential streets in Franklin Park vicinity
April 26, 2012
Chey Scott
Inland Asphalt Co., of Spokane, is the low bidder on a $1.6 million project to rehabilitate a half-mile stretch of Columbia Avenue between Division and Post streets, as well as several surrounding residential streets in the Franklin Park on North
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Sons of Norway puts lodge on North Side up for sale

Facility includes three kitchens, two multipurpose rooms
April 26, 2012
Mike McLean
The Spokane Sons of Norway fraternal organization says its lodge on the North Side is for sale.The property is listed for $850,000, says Mel Molstad, vice president of the organization.The 10,000-square-foot, single-story lodge building, at a
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Recycling a front-page article

April 26, 2012
Editor's Notebook
One of the Journal readers owes me a heaping helping of "I told you so."In late January, I received newly released recycling-rate statistics from the Spokane Regional Solid Waste System. What the numbers showed was groundbreaking: In 2010, it
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