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Legal Ethics

Prosecutor Candidate Accused of Accepting Sex for Fee After Ex-Client Claims Secret Tape

Criminal Justice

Lawyer Sentenced to Prison for Losing $2M in Client Money in Day Trading

Labor & Employment

Domestic Worker’s Suit Claims Heiress’s Request for HIV Test Violated NYC Law

Criminal Justice

Defense Hopes ‘Cops’ Video Will Show Murder Defendant’s Troubled Upbringing

Trusts & Estates

Dealmeister’s Daughter Leaves $8.3M Mansion to the Dogs; Lawyer Named in Resulting Will Contest

Trials & Litigation

Blago Says His Law School Roomie Lied on Stand, But Judge Nixes Gag Order, For Now

Criminal Justice

Prof Charged in Fatal Faculty Shooting Is Indicted Today in Brother’s 1986 Death

U.S. Supreme Court

Could the Nine Become 10, 11 or More? Sen. Mulls Bill to Let Retired Justices Sit In After Recusals

Criminal Justice

Put on Leave, Magistrate Judge Is Reportedly Arrested After Courthouse Standoff

Securities Law

IG Says SEC May Have Been Lenient with ‘Prominent Law Firm’ Due to Claimed ‘Significant Ties’

Criminal Justice

Retired Appellate Judge, 75, Charged with Murdering His Wife

Question of the Week

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Legal Ethics

BigLaw Firm Hit with Big-Bucks Sanction for Pursuing Billionaire’s ‘Ridiculous’ Claim

Criminal Justice

Law Firm Secretary Who Stole $625K Says Partners Were Like Family, Gets 4 to 13 Years

Layoffs

Jones Day Lays Off Staffers in Dallas and LA as ‘Last-Resort Alternative’

Administrative Law

Fried Frank Partner Tapped to Overhaul Oil Agency

Tort Law

BP Agrees to Pay $20 Billion into Compensation Fund

Attorney General

Bryan Cave Partner Grilled on Terrorism Article at Deputy AG Confirmation Hearing

Criminal Justice

Drug-Sniffing Dog Focuses on Courthouse Lawyer

Environmental Law

9th Circuit Denies Protection for Not-So-Giant Earthworm

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