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Law Firms

No Apprenticeship Trend Yet, Although Law Firms with Programs Report Success

Environmental Law

Judge Rules Maritime Law Doesn’t Shield Transocean from Most Environmental Suits

Disability Law

4 Law Schools Named in Suit By Blind Advocacy Group Over LSAC’s Online Law School Applications

Legal Marketing

Plaintiffs Firms Create News Websites Where Potential Clients Congregate

Legal Ethics

Proposed Utah Ethics Rule Would Bar Lawyers’ False Comments About Judicial System

Criminal Justice

White Supremacist Lawyer Accused of Plotting to Kill Wife, Mother-in-Law

U.S. Supreme Court

Justices’ Disclosures Reveal Souter’s Kindle, Sotomayor’s Dentist Debt

Copyright Law

Canadian Lawyer Files Suit Claiming Westlaw Has ‘Purloined’ Lawyer Documents

Health Law

Accused in Michael Jackson’s Death, Doc Can Still Practice Medicine

Careers

Lawyer (and BC Law Dean) to Replace Cleric as New President of Catholic University

Family Law

Opposing Counsel’s Warning Comes Too Late; Lawyer, 54, Is Stabbed 12 Times in Her Office

Criminal Justice

Even After Lawyer Reveals Dead Client’s Seeming Guilt in 2 Murders, Another Man Remains in Prison

Law Firms

Law Firm Destroyed by Fire Has Hard Drive, Will Practice in Unknown New Location

Legal Ethics

Law Firm Spammed Our Investors, Contends Ex-Client in Fee Dispute

Legal History

Sirhan May Have Plotted to Assassinate Ted Kennedy, Too, Says FBI

Banking Law

Squatters Add to Mortgage Lenders’  Woes; Eviction from $3.3M Listing a Civil Matter

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court Rules for Persistent Death-Row Inmate Whose Lawyer Blew Habeas Deadline

Criminal Justice

Ted Kennedy Death Threats Revealed in Newly Released FBI Documents

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court Refuses Cert in Extraordinary Rendition Case

Law Firms

Some Atlanta Law Firms See Business Uptick, and Associates Benefit

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