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  • Author on how ‘tremendously radical’ women blazed trails into the legal profession (podcast)

    Jun 10, 2013, 08:45 am CDT

  • Meet 6 law firm leaders, each with a different story, each at the top of her game

    Jun 1, 2013, 05:20 am CDT

  • June 19, 1961: Police raid of home sparks a revolution in the criminal justice system

    Jun 1, 2013, 01:00 am CDT

  • Sotomayor takes SCOTUS chief justice seat to re-enact famous baseball case

    May 24, 2013, 03:46 pm CDT

  • Did convicted ‘Cold Blood’ murderers in Capote novel also kill a Florida family?

    May 17, 2013, 02:44 pm CDT

  • Lessons for liberals can be found in story of Federalist Society influence, says book review

    May 15, 2013, 06:25 am CDT

  • Ginsburg: Court should have avoided broad-based decision in Roe v. Wade

    May 13, 2013, 09:20 am CDT

  • Are digitization and budget cuts compromising history?

    May 1, 2013, 05:30 am CDT

  • New video series looks behind the scenes of innovation at inspiring inventors

    May 1, 2013, 04:20 am CDT

  • LGBT lawyers join high court bar

    May 1, 2013, 02:10 am CDT

  • May 6, 1882: Congress passes first major law restricting immigration

    May 1, 2013, 12:40 am CDT

  • Pulitzer awarded for book on largely forgotten case defended by Thurgood Marshall

    Apr 26, 2013, 06:00 am CDT

  • Leon Jaworski’s name is the first to go as his firm grows

    Apr 1, 2013, 04:00 am CDT

  • Trial of Socrates still raises questions about the relationship between citizens and their states

    Apr 1, 2013, 03:10 am CDT

  • What judges really think about the phrase ‘May it please the Court?’

    Apr 1, 2013, 02:58 am CDT

  • April 3, 1996: The Unabomber is apprehended

    Apr 1, 2013, 12:00 am CDT

  • Legal journalist dies near 50th anniversary of the case he chronicled in ‘Gideon’s Trumpet’

    Mar 25, 2013, 11:41 am CDT

  • Photo gallery commemorates 50th anniversary of closing of Alcatraz, once nation’s most secure prison

    Mar 21, 2013, 09:00 am CDT

  • Who died at boys reform school over last century, and how? State AG asks judge to OK exhumation

    Mar 13, 2013, 11:15 am CDT

  • Couple visits all 254 Texas courthouses in 14,500-mile odyssey, ties knot Monday in Ellis County

    Mar 11, 2013, 05:47 pm CDT

  • Want to protect individual freedom? Have a strong central government, says ‘Rule of the Clan’ author

    Mar 11, 2013, 08:45 am CDT

  • Joseph Kelner, attorney who sued sitting Ohio governor over Kent State slayings, is dead at 98

    Mar 8, 2013, 02:55 pm CDT

  • Looking for SCOTUS controversy? Case revelations? O’Connor book sticks to facts of court history

    Mar 6, 2013, 07:15 am CDT

  • Larry Flynt’s lawyer and others recall March ‘78 shooting near courthouse

    Mar 5, 2013, 11:21 am CDT

  • Fifty years after Gideon, lawyers still struggle to provide counsel to the indigent

    Mar 1, 2013, 06:10 am CDT

  • The ‘Obvious Truth’: Gideon asserts only a lawyer’s advocacy can ensure a defendant a fair trial

    Mar 1, 2013, 05:40 am CDT

  • March 25, 1931: The saga of the Scottsboro Boys begins

    Mar 1, 2013, 01:30 am CDT

  • Bork’s posthumous book tells of Nixon’s promise after Saturday Night Massacre

    Feb 27, 2013, 08:58 am CDT

  • ‘A kind of Apple Store for legal stuff’ opens; Richard III’s legal legacy

    Feb 8, 2013, 09:29 am CDT

  • Socrates retrial: Did he have to drink the hemlock?

    Feb 1, 2013, 09:59 am CDT

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