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Privacy Law

Lawyer Gets Revenge for Early Morning Robocall

U.S. Supreme Court

Which Precedents Will Fall Under Roberts? Commerce Clause Powers May Survive

White-Collar Crime

Law Grad Who Reportedly Faked Bar ID Is Charged with Stealing $176K From Indian Tribe

Trials & Litigation

Kentucky Defense Lawyer Has Won 28 Med-Mal Cases, Lost Zero Since 1999

Trials & Litigation

Despite DNA Evidence & Confession, Jury Acquits ‘Nude Housekeeper’ in Paralegal’s Slaying

Business of Law

Fake Law Firm Memo Offers Tax Tip to Troops: The Less You Bill, the Less We Owe

Legal Ethics

Lawyer Misappropriated $2K in ‘Protection of the Client’s Interest,’ So He Isn’t Disbarred

Personal Lives

Yale Law Prof Targeted in Mommy Wars Offers Further Explanation of Her Thoughts on Parenting

Media & Communications Law

Top Wash. Court Says Lawyer Billing Records May Be Public in Murder Case, Awards Fees

Civil Procedure

Patent Law Issue Puts $33M Law Firm Malpractice Case Squarely Into Federal Court

Trials & Litigation

Jury Wallops Ex-Sheriff’s Deputies with $16M Award to Beaten Arrestee in ‘Kind of Pro Bono’ Case

Legislation & Lobbying

Judges Get Mahogany, Granite Counters, Soundproof Toilets and More at New ‘Taj Mahal’ Courthouse

Family Law

Divorce Is More Likely After ‘Marriage Bed’ Adultery, Lawyers Say

U.S. Supreme Court

Do a Whiff of Pot and Suspicious Sounds Justify Police Search? Supreme Court Mulls Issue

Legal Ethics

Law Grad with No Plan to Repay Debt Fails Character and Fitness Mandate, Ohio Top Court Says

Death Penalty

Top Texas Court Orders End to Hearing on Constitutionality of Death Penalty

Law Schools

LSAT Would Be Optional Under Possible ABA Accreditation Change

Careers

Why Annulkah Can’t Get a BigLaw Job: Everest-Climbing Super-Elite Grads Preferred

Work-Life Balance

Can Law Firms Offer Same Flexibility as Accounting Firms? Probably Not, Law Prof Says

Constitutional Law

1st Circuit Upholds Town’s Scarlet Letter—an Orange Sticker—for Unruly Gatherings

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