John Grisham’s novel The Confession, chronicling the gut-wrenching politics of a last-ditch death penalty appeal in Texas, is the winner of the inaugural Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.
With unfailing courtesy, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 91, writes, in “informative and very appealing” fashion about his 34 years on the nation’s top court in Five…
News of additional errors in some Law School Admission Test and grade point average data published in recent years by the University of Illinois isn’t going to make any difference…
John Grisham isn’t certain what’s happened to the image of lawyers in the five decades since To Kill A Mockingbird was published. But he’s fairly sure that his readers might…
A Harvard law student who’s a huge fan of Survivor has already parlayed his love of the reality television program into a prizewinning paper for a class on the American…
It will be a year before Mike Sacks celebrates his 30th birthday. But the Georgetown University law graduate has landed what many, including Sacks himself, consider a plum job, covering…
Brooke Shields will play Susette Kelo in a Lifetime TV movie about the woman’s unsuccessful quest to block the use of eminent domain in her New London, Conn., neighborhood.
Just when you mastered Twitter and Facebook, Google+ joins the mix. ABA Journal Podcast moderator Stephanie Francis Ward talks with lawyers and a social media expert about the free marketing opportunities the new site offers, and the tradeoffs for privacy concerns.
Morgan Freeman will play David Boies while John Lithgow has the part of Ted Olson in a one-night reading of a new play about California’s Proposition 8 referendum banning gay…
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