International Law
Car bomb kills 17, injures 39 outside Afghanistan’s top court; Taliban says judges were targets
Jun 11, 2013, 01:50 pm CDT
Attorney General
US drops appeal over morning-after pill, paving way for sale without age restrictions
Jun 11, 2013, 07:48 am CDT
Criminal Justice
Surveillance leaker checks out of Hong Kong hotel as US readies charges
Jun 11, 2013, 06:58 am CDT
Law in Popular Culture
How do you pronounce ‘lawyer’? What about ‘voir dire’? Will your answer make you a ‘redneck’?
Jun 11, 2013, 06:10 am CDT
Trials & Litigation
As libel trial losers battle $1M legal bill, FBI probes claimed mid-trial DUI set-up of their lawyer
Jun 10, 2013, 05:10 pm CDT
Law Schools
Track job outcomes 9 or 10 months after graduation? ABA legal ed council to take it up in August
Jun 10, 2013, 04:05 pm CDT
Trials & Litigation
Legal recruiter sues Davis Polk, seeks $1.4M for Clifford Chance hires
Jun 10, 2013, 03:20 pm CDT
U.S. Supreme Court
Justice who said he never met a homosexual actually had several gay law clerks
Jun 10, 2013, 01:08 pm CDT
U.S. Supreme Court
Grain operator’s SCOTUS win is ‘a strong reaffirmation of the ex post facto clause’
Jun 10, 2013, 10:02 am CDT
International Law
In ‘high-stakes gamble’ against extradition, surveillance whistleblower is in Hong Kong
Jun 10, 2013, 07:27 am CDT
Law Schools
Offer rates at top law schools are better than at some elite kindergartens, blogger observes
Jun 10, 2013, 06:00 am CDT
Privacy Law
Two men wrongly identified as possible suspects in Boston Marathon bombing sue newspaper
Jun 7, 2013, 12:45 pm CDT
Criminal Justice
Grand jury to investigate paralegal’s death in lawyer’s bathtub
Jun 7, 2013, 09:29 am CDT
Around the Blawgosphere
Blogger reads between lines of NSA lawyer’s ‘false myths’ speech, knowing what we know now
Jun 7, 2013, 08:30 am CDT
Privacy Law
Lawyer-turned-blogger broke the story on collection of cellphone data; will he be prosecuted?
Jun 7, 2013, 07:49 am CDT
Privacy Law
US also collects Internet data; does NSA directly tap servers of Google and other top companies?
Jun 7, 2013, 07:03 am CDT
Legal Ethics
Judge who angrily lectured appellate counsel in death-penalty case is suspended with pay
Jun 6, 2013, 04:40 pm CDT
Constitutional Law
Lawmakers: US has gotten cellphone info for 7 years, ‘lawful’ program prevented terrorist attack
Jun 6, 2013, 01:30 pm CDT
The New Normal
Why cling to well-intentioned rules and practices that don’t actually work?
Jun 6, 2013, 01:28 pm CDT
Business of Law
Firms with blogs have seen increased revenue; is there a correlation? (video)
Jun 6, 2013, 11:00 am CDT
Privacy Law
Is US perusing millions of phone records? Secret court order reveals ‘massive scale’ data collection
Jun 6, 2013, 07:14 am CDT
Women in the Law
How to be taken seriously? Recent grads who formed criminal defense firm fight ‘sweetie’ image
Jun 6, 2013, 05:59 am CDT
Careers
Is weight gain a job hazard for lawyers? Profession cited for packing on pounds
Jun 6, 2013, 05:35 am CDT
Government Law
State legal team seeking $2B fine in fatal gas fire is reassigned; city calls for AG probe
Jun 5, 2013, 06:00 pm CDT
Constitutional Law
Trial begins in federal class action over public defender caseloads in municipal court
Jun 5, 2013, 05:30 pm CDT
Constitutional Law
Federal judge calls herself ‘Hulk,’ clashes with prosecutors over info that could extend sentences
Jun 5, 2013, 03:00 pm CDT
Question of the Week
Did you take a bar exam prep course? If so, did you take out a loan to finance it? Any regrets?
Jun 5, 2013, 02:12 pm CDT
Prosecutors
US Attorney is called a ‘traitor’ at event to improve Muslim relations
Jun 5, 2013, 02:09 pm CDT
U.S. Supreme Court
Chemerinsky: Court unanimously wrong on Virginia’s public records law
Jun 5, 2013, 09:31 am CDT
Judiciary
Federal appeals judge is accused of racial bias for alleged comments on criminal propensities
Jun 5, 2013, 08:33 am CDT
Criminal Justice
BigLaw partner is killed; authorities suspect shooter was boyfriend, who also died
Jun 5, 2013, 07:12 am CDT
Judiciary
Was judge senile in death penalty case? 9th Circuit dissenter sees ‘painfully obvious’ incompetence
Jun 5, 2013, 06:25 am CDT
Law Professors
Suit claims law profs were fired after opposing proposals to discourage student transfers
Jun 4, 2013, 12:09 pm CDT
Government Law
Chat with lawyer neighbor leads to constitutional case over $600 city ‘weeds’ fine
Jun 4, 2013, 11:20 am CDT
Privacy Law
Leaked emails that led to exposure of Petraeus affair violated socialite’s privacy, suit claims
Jun 4, 2013, 09:13 am CDT
Judiciary
Threatening to strangle a PD leads to ethics charges against judge; did stroke affect his ‘filter’?
Jun 4, 2013, 07:14 am CDT
Law Schools
University of Louisville tops new list of law schools getting the most US News bang for their buck
Jun 4, 2013, 06:04 am CDT
Bar Associations
State bar president calls recent lawyer suicides ‘disproportionate’ and ‘disconcerting’
Jun 4, 2013, 05:35 am CDT
Careers
Former Utah AG resigns from new job at Troutman Sanders, cites ‘just too hard’ commute and schedule
Jun 3, 2013, 04:12 pm CDT