After an hourly rates client of an insolvent law firm terminates the relationship, can a bankruptcy trustee later claw back some of the future profits earned by the client’s new…
Fifteen former presidents of the American Bar Association have written a letter calling for a hearing and vote on Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.
Updated:Robert MacCrate, a courtly Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer whose many accomplishments included introducing himself in song in 1987 as the American Bar Association’s incoming president, died Wednesday. He…
The American Bar Association is backing calls by Louisiana public defenders and the chief justice of the state’s supreme court to provide adequate funding for the representation of indigent defendants.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday granted the clemency petitions of 61 federal prisoners, reducing their sentences and providing for them to be freed later this year.
Wearing an ankle monitor is less restrictive than being detained by U.S. authorities. However, even less restrictive alternatives are available to use on Central American immigrant families fleeing extraordinary violence…
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