Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) is set to launch a breach of fiduciary duty action against its departing aviation team after it decided to defect to rival Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW)

The eight-partner team, led by Giles Kavanagh, quit BLG in March (The Lawyer, 24 March). The shock move was widely believed to be one of the factors that led to BLG entering into merger talks with rival Clyde & Co.

A source close to BLG said of the decision to sue: “It’s hugely personal and very sensitive. It wasn’t an easy decision for the partners to make. It’s

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Can Republicans reach a deal to raise the debt limit with President Obama and the Democrats? Is now the time to push for a balanced budget amendment? We’ll ask our guest, Texas Sen. John Cornyn.

PolitiFact Texas reviews Sen. Cornyn’s claim that a majority of U.S. households paid no income taxes in 2009.

Flashpoint debates how raising the debt limit is raising the political stakes in Washington.

On today’s Rant: Is Gov. Perry’s Hispanic support eroding?

And on Roundtable, the political fallout of the FBI seeking information from the office of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins.

Over the past few years, American businesses and families across the country have suffered the effects of the worst financial crisis in generations. Today, although our economic recovery is gaining steam, it remains critically important that we continue to use every available tool and resource to safeguard consumers against additional – and unnecessary – financial burdens.

For many, rapidly rising gasoline prices pose a serious concern. And

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DAYTON — As he sat in a Dayton police cruiser en route to the Montgomery County jail from Grandview Hospital, 20-year-old Kylen English told the police officer behind the wheel “I want to die.” English also asked the officer, “Do you believe you go to heaven if you kill yourself?”

The statements were recorded by the cruiser’s in-car video camera, according to Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl, who played the audio and video during a late Monday afternoon news conference.

English died Saturday after he escaped from the cruiser and, according to police, and jumped from the Salem Avenue bridge. His death p

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