Updated: Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. has not exactly faded into oblivion since his 1997 death, having been memorialized in busts, buildings and, last year, a U.S. postage stamp.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently “honored” National Public Radio, De Beers Diamond Jewellers and Warner Music Group. But chances are that none of the entities is crowing about the accolade because the digital media watchdog group awarded these and others entry into its Takedown Hall of Shame.
Like many other lawyers, Lina Kulchinsky works 12-hour days. Only hers are no longer spent in an office, but rather making pretzels at the Sigmund Pretzel Shop, which she opened with a partner in Manhattan’s Alphabet City neighborhood on the Lower East Side.
At his senate confirmation hearing five years ago, chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. compared a Supreme Court justice’s role to that of a baseball umpire.
Alan Beaman and Thaddeus Jimenez may not be familiar names to most Americans, but John Maki believes they should be. The men, who were wrongfully convicted of crimes they did not commit, were exonerated through the help of innocence projects.
Water rights and sustainable water use are emerging as major environmental law issues, yet many lawyers are never schooled in the scientific, social and cultural aspects of water resources that some say are needed to achieve viable solutions.
We’ve all gotten a chuckle when a cell phone blares a ringtone at a meeting or in a quiet elevator, but does that scenario constitute a public performance?
Though the news has been dominated by stories of wealthy investors losing millions in Ponzi schemes, plenty of limited-income investors have also lost money in bad and fraudulent investments.
Demonstrators picketed their Greenwich Village home. Bullets came in the mail. Their father opened packages in the basement lest they contained explosives.
As traditional media dwindles, fewer journalists than ever are covering the courts. But that doesn’t mean the courts aren’t being covered. Thanks to social media, blogs and Twitter, user-generated content is surging.
Prison life isn’t supposed to be easy. But should it make prisoners sick? That’s the central question in a novel federal lawsuit filed last year over the soy-laden diet the Illinois state prison system serves to prisoners.
Nowadays, finding a lawyer is as easy as a few keystrokes and a click of the mouse. But that doesn’t make the hiring decision any easier.
Birmingham, Ala., lawyer Lew Garrison thinks he has developed the perfect solution: LegalTube.com.
They sported Yankee pinstripes, but they weren’t feted by a ticker-tape parade or handed keys to the city. Still, this team was most welcome when they arrived in New York to honor their end of a losing bet on the World Series.
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