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Legal Ethics

Fen-Phen Lawyer Should Be Disbarred, Disgorge $7.5M of His $20M Fee, Hearing Officer Suggests

Natural Disasters

2 US Lawyers OK After Quake; 35 Escape N.Z. Firm Where Stairs ‘Dropped Down the Stairwells’

Trials & Litigation

Reports: Convicted Judge Proclaims Victory, Turns His Back on Mom Blaming Him for Her Son’s Suicide

Media & Communications Law

New York Daily News Complies with Judge Order, Discloses Confidential Source

Evidence

Coroner Who Moonlighted Takes Plea, Losing Medical License But Avoiding Time

Copyright Law

Fed’l Judge Shuts Down Web TV Rebroadcasts; Exec Fires Back with Claim She Overstepped

Trials & Litigation

Was Killing Outside Courthouse First-Degree Murder? Manslaughter? Case Goes to Jury

Law Schools

To Better Understand U.S. Laws, CU-Boulder Law Students Head to India

Business of Law

Two More IP Litigators Exit Howrey, This Time for Ropes & Gray and Levenfeld Pearlstein

Government Law

To Resolve $145.88 Dispute, Sheriff Retains Law Firm, Winds Up with $5,370.67 Legal Bill

Copyright Law

6th Circuit ‘Bow Wow Wow’ Opinion Cited by Lawyer Eyeing Suit Against Britney Spears

Media & Communications Law

Britain May Rewrite Controversial Defamation Laws

Legal Ethics

Texas Lawyers Reject Ban on Sex with Clients

U.S. Supreme Court

Kagan Opinion Allows Railroad to Challenge Alabama Tax as Discriminatory

U.S. Supreme Court

Vaccine Design Defect Claims in State Courts Are Pre-Empted by Federal Law, Supreme Court Rules

International Law

Lawyers Were Among Protesters in Libya; Justice Minister Resigns

American Bar Association

ABA President Criticizes House Vote to Cut Legal Services Funding

Personal Lives

Well-Known Lawyers Among New Yorkers Who Own Handguns

Legal Ethics

Adams and Reese Sued over Advice to Alleged Ponzi Schemer Stanford

Criminal Justice

Charged with a Misdeed? Drop the Hero Strategy and Opt for Victimhood, Study Says

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