A lawsuit claims LegalZoom's do-it-yourself online legal document service is practicing without a license. Is legal self-help software illegal?
By Roger Parloff, senior editor
FORTUNE -- Wouldn't it be great if there was a Web site that could help regular folks draw up their own legal documents the way TurboTax helps them do their own tax returns?
Well, the good news is that such services do exist—and have existed for some time. The MORE
Jun 30, 2011 8:30 AM ET
The bitter environmental suit against Chevron in Ecuador opens a window on a troubling new business: speculating in court cases.
By Roger Parloff, senior editor
FORTUNE -- Many readers will have already heard about the bitterly contested $18.2 billion environmental judgment handed down against Chevron in February by a judge in Sucumbíos province in northeastern Ecuador, an Amazon jungle region where Colombian narcoterrorists go for R&R. The judgment was entered in the MORE
Jun 28, 2011 2:06 PM ET
Editors Note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a classic story from our archive. Today's is a September, 1958, look at the birth of the interstate highway system. The article calls out a number of issues that were then being minimized but that would plague communities for decades, such as the fact that the highway engineers were building roads for speed, cost and convenience, as opposed to thinking about neighborhoods being paved over. Or that MORE
Jun 26, 2011 12:03 AM ET
The Gagosian Gallery launched its first iPad app. For now, though, you can look but you can't buy.
By Rasely Ma, contributor
FORTUNE -- Interested in perusing works of art on display around the world from renowned artists like Pablo Picasso and Richard Prince? The Gagosian Gallery has made an app for that.
The Gagosian, which features contemporary artwork in more than ten locations around the world, has launched its first app for MORE
Jun 24, 2011 1:32 PM ET
How SABMiller plans to capture the African beer market by sourcing local ingredients. Sorghum beer, anyone?
By Carolyn Whelan, contributor
FORTUNE -- A guy walks into a bar and orders a pint of beer. But this isn't a pub in London or a sports bar in Milwaukee -- it's a watering hole in Uganda. And the beer, from the same company that brews Miller, is made from sorghum, a grain common to MORE
Jun 24, 2011 9:30 AM ET
Government agencies are relying more on private contractors to fight the nation's wildfires, but the business of disaster response can be just as unpredictable as the blazes themselves.
By David Tao, contributor
Arizona burns.
FORTUNE -- As the Wallow fire continues to rage in Arizona, federal, state, and municipal entities are working around the clock to contain it. But there's another group of increasingly important firefighters battling the blaze: private contractors.
While governmental MORE
Jun 22, 2011 12:04 PM ET
Reviewed by Doron Levin
At the Tribune Company, promises of a new start morphed into the same old cost cutting, with a twist: bankruptcy.Sam Zell
The Deal From Hell by James O'Shea (Public Affairs, $28.99)
FORTUNE -- James O'Shea's book, subtitled "How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers," sounds like it reads as one man's version of how and why the U.S. newspaper industry imploded.
Actually, the book actually tells a narrower MORE
Jun 21, 2011 11:22 AM ETThe Supreme Court ruling in favor of Wal-Mart in a closely watched sex discrimination class action suit will have a far-reaching impact on businesses -- and on female workers.
By Roger Parloff, senior editor
FORTUNE -- Today's ruling in the Dukes v. Wal-Mart sex discrimination class action -- the largest such suit ever and the most important case on the U.S. Supreme Court's business docket this term -- is a powerful, multipronged MORE
Jun 20, 2011 4:36 PM ETAt the first anniversary of the Giving Pledge -- the challenge to the nation's richest to give away half their fortunes -- 69 signers have stepped up.
By Carol J. Loomis, senior editor-at-large
The youngest signer, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, with his girlfriend Cari Tuna.
FORTUNE -- The Giving Pledge, invented by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to spur the philanthropy of billionaires, is one year old. In Fortune's July 5, 2010, cover story about this startup enterprise, we called MORE
Jun 20, 2011 2:36 PM ET
Every month, Fortune will be publishing a new reader poll (you can also check out our polls on our Facebook page). This month's is all about which corporate brands are getting the most out of their sports sponsorship dollars. Tell us what you think!
Which sponsor do you feel got the best brand exposure so far in spring and summer sports?
Take Our Poll Jun 20, 2011 11:37 AM ET
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