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		<title>What You Should Know About Drug Studies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristine B</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Drugs/Medical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the recent release of the results from the ARBITER 6-HALTS trial regarding Zetia and Niaspan, there may be questions about what drug studies are and why they are important. This week, Pleading Ignorance examines drug studies: what they do, what they don&#8217;t do and what you should know about them.
Drug Studies: What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Fees To Spoil Your Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/4-fees-to-spoil-your-christmas-01847.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristine B</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Credit CARD Act]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[credit cards]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Overdraft fees]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[payday loans]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Prepaid Debit Cards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[aka, How the Financial Grinches Stole Christmas&#8230;
Christmas is just around the corner. How do I know? Because one of my oh-so-thoughtful Facebook friends has already started the Christmas countdown. And, like so many people out there, my concern is with affording Christmas, especially given all the traps and fees associated with bank accounts, credit cards, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Credit CARD Pitfalls to Look Out for Now</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/5-credit-card-pitfalls-to-look-out-for-now-01760.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/5-credit-card-pitfalls-to-look-out-for-now-01760.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristine B</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Credit CARD Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With Christmas around the corner (at least according to big box retailers and your local Hallmark store) the time to think about how to pay for Christmas presents is upon us. Of course, the new credit card regulations go into effect next year, which means that banks are doing everything they can to maximize profits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right To Work vs. Employment at Will: what&#8217;s the difference?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/right-to-work-vs-employment-at-will-whats-the-difference-01710.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/right-to-work-vs-employment-at-will-whats-the-difference-01710.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristine B</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pleading Ignorance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Labor Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve been researching state employment laws (for the record, I do have a life). And I&#8217;ve come across a lot of people who are confused &#8220;right to work&#8221; and &#8220;employment at will.&#8221; Can&#8217;t say I blame them. So, this week Pleading Ignorance is setting the record straight about&#8230;
The difference between &#8221;right to work&#8221; and &#8220;employment at will&#8221;
Both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overtime Pay: How do I Know if my Employer Owes me Money?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/overtime-pay-how-do-i-know-if-my-employer-owes-me-money-01498.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/overtime-pay-how-do-i-know-if-my-employer-owes-me-money-01498.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristine B</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pleading Ignorance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[FLSA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Overtime]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Overtime Pay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, it sounds like a bad Whitney Houston flashback&#8230;&#8221;How will I know if he&#8230;&#8221; Whoa there—back on topic. Overtime pay? Good question. So that&#8217;s the focus of this week&#8217;s Pleading Ignorance. 
If you&#8217;ve opened a newspaper lately—or looked at virtually any news website including our own recent post on 61 companies with OT pay issues—you&#8217;ll know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How an MDL Class Action is like Super Target</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/how-an-mdl-class-action-is-like-super-target-01134.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/how-an-mdl-class-action-is-like-super-target-01134.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of talk about multi-district litigation, or MDL, lately. Thanks to the coverage of the Chinese drywall situation, the term &#8220;MDL&#8221; has shown up more in the news. But what is an MDL? Pleading Ignorance takes a look at MDL, with some insight from attorney Gary Mason—one of 50 lawyers who&#8217;s been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the heck is Qui Tam?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/what-the-heck-is-qui-tam-01087.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/what-the-heck-is-qui-tam-01087.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Whistleblowers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=1087</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been posting about whistleblowers and it&#8217;s hard to talk about whistleblowing without coming across the phrase &#8220;Qui Tam&#8221;. Looks like some Latin thing again that legal folks are famously in love with—and, alas, it is! But beyond the Latin, why does it always seem to show up with whistleblowing cases? Pleading Ignorance takes a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Risk of a Layoff? Make sure you&#8217;re WARNed</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/at-risk-of-a-layoff-make-sure-youre-warned-01040.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/at-risk-of-a-layoff-make-sure-youre-warned-01040.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[WARN Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When facing an employment layoff, typically there&#8217;s a lot of closed door meetings, hush-hush hallway conversations, and if you&#8217;ve been involved with a major corporate &#8220;restructuring&#8221;, there can even be code names. Lots and lots of secrecy. But when it comes time to actually announce mass layoffs, there&#8217;s a little thing called the The Worker Adjustment and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pleading Ignorance: &#8220;You May be Owed Money!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/pleading-ignorance-you-may-be-owed-money-0974.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/pleading-ignorance-you-may-be-owed-money-0974.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If that doesn&#8217;t sound like the quintessential come-on, I don&#8217;t know what does. And it&#8217;s t.v. ads blaring that phrase that give some lawyers and the law biz a bit of a weird rep. But don&#8217;t blame the law profession, blame their ad agencies. Why? Because there&#8217;s actually some truth behind the statement that you [...]]]></description>
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