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What can you do when your lawyer ignores you? 6

After my February 17 conversation with Dinkes & Schwitzer’s Marc Mauser, during which he told me a copy of my file was ready to be picked up (as I had demanded in a letter to Bill Schwitzer), I got very … Continue reading

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Defamation on the internet? Not so, says a federal judge

Women can legally call their exes “scum” — or pretty much anything else — in dating forums online, according to a federal judge’s ruling… The judge threw out a lawsuit by New York lawyer Matthew Couloute against two ex-lovers he said repeatedly … Continue reading

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What can you do when your lawyer ignores you? 4

After a week, the phone rang. The call was ID’d as Dinkes & Schwitzer. In a couple of seconds, I decided that my anger had transmuted into my usual affable sarcasm, so I could risk picking up the phone. It … Continue reading

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