Lawyers can fix a lot of problems in court, but damage to their online reputations isn't one of them.  A New York divorce attorney found this out recently when a court threw out his lawsuit over malicious online comments calling him the "worst attorney" in the state.  The situation is far more than a nuisance for legal professionals; in a world where 80% of the population relies on Internet sea...

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A non-profit hospital located in a small town was being sued for alleged antitrust violations after it failed to grant work privileges to an orthopedic surgeon employed by an independent physicians group (IPG).
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A real estate development company was accused by residents of a building it was tearing down - to make room for a major new development - that the company was racist and disregarding the needs of lower income residents.

A large regional bank in the Midwest was sued by a female employee and the EEOC for sexual discrimination, alleging that the bank unfairly failed to promote the woman and that her compensation was lower than her male peers’.  While the bank felt the allegations of the suit were groundless, bad publicity about the suit clearly threatened to damage the bank’s reputation and management was rightly...