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Legal aid is threatened in this country, according to The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog (by way of The National Law Journal). The post notes that legal-aid lawyers "know the knife's edge, working long hours for low pay at organizations that are often underappreciated, underfunded, and undersupplied." Many of the programs that managed to stay afloat in 2010 are "bracing for an even leaner 2011 ...

Toyota wins legal victory over whistleblower

Toyota said Wednesday it won a 2.6-million-dollar legal victory against a former in-house attorney who accused the Japanese automaker of routinely hiding evidence of safety defects.