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Animal Law

Woman Blames Law Firms in Claimed Kitty Caper; NY Case to be Appealed

Criminal Justice

Sheriff Who Pocketed $212K by Providing Skimpy Prisoner Meals is Tossed in Jail

Verdicts & Settlements

No Billion-Dollar Verdicts in 2008

Careers

Paralegals Outrank Lawyers on Best Jobs List

Careers

More Lawyers May Delay Retirement Due to Stock Drop, Crowding their Firms

Law Professors

Harvard Law Prof Cass Sunstein Appointed Regulatory Czar

Law Students

A Slow Law School Start Didn’t Doom SG Nominee

Law Firms

Trial Begins on Lawyer’s Claim that Blank Rome Owes Him $200K in Fees

Layoffs

Clifford Chance Plans to Ax Up to 80 Associates, Asks Partners to Ante Up

Attorney General

Specter Wants to Know if Holder Can Just Say No

Judiciary

Obstruction of Justice Charge Against US Judge ‘Upped the Ante’

Executive Branch

Obama Battles DC Lawyers Over His BlackBerry

Legal Ethics

Did Indiana Lawyer’s Help With Son’s Plea Cross Ethical Line?

Legal Ethics

Despite Waivers, Calif. Defense Lawyer is Conflicted Out of Triple Murder Case

U.S. Supreme Court

Top State Jurists Weigh In on W. Va. Recusal Issue

Celebrities

1st Surrender, Then Contest 1977 Child-Rape Plea, Gov’t Tells Polanski

Legal Ethics

Lawyer Won $2.4M for Client, But Should Get No Attorney Fee, 2nd Circuit Says

ABA Journal

Some People Love the Blawg 100 a Little Too Much

Law Firms

Detroit’s Clark Hill Opens Arizona Office By Acquiring Norling Kolsrud

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