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Criminal Justice

5 Blackwater Guards Charged with Manslaughter in Iraqi Deaths

Law Firms

Big UK Firm Has Partners Hold Funds, Avoids Scary Bank Deposits

Guantanamo/Detainees

Five Sept. 11 Detainees Ask to Confess and Enter Guilty Plea

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenge to Obama’s Citizenship

Law Schools

Registrations Up for Law and Business School Tests, but Not for for GRE

Legal Ethics

Ohio Judge Gives Lawyer Six-Month Sentence for Using F-Word

Attorney Fees

At White & Case, Top Lawyers Bill as Much as $1,260 an Hour

Partners

Fewer Lawyers Making Partner in Big Calif. Firms

Lawyer Pay

Boies Schiller Bucks Trend, Will Pay Some $100K Bonuses

Criminal Justice

Prosecutors and PDs Fired in Fla. Consider Lawsuits

Terrorism

Panel to Seek Probe of Concealed Wiretaps in Terrorism Trial

Law Firms

Dreier Law Firm Could Collapse Following Founder’s Arrest

Careers

Will Caroline Kennedy Bring Another Piece of Camelot to the Senate?

Executive Branch

Skadden Partner to Take White House Post

Layoffs

Boston Firm Axes 40 Support Staff

U.S. Supreme Court

Alito Invokes Mick Jagger to Poke Fun at Biden Plagiarism

Recession

Chrysler Hires Jones Day for Possible Bankruptcy

U.S. Supreme Court

SCOTUS Takes Enemy Combatant Case, But Will Justices Get to Hear It?

Criminal Justice

OJ Simpson Sentenced in ‘Two-Tiered’ Nevada System

Careers

Legal Employment Down 12,000 Jobs in Last Year

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