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10 most popular ABAJournal.com headlines in 2014

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Each Friday in our Weekly Newsletter, we send out a digest including the week’s most-read posts appearing on ABAJournal.com. So which blog posts were most popular—though not necessarily the year’s biggest legal news stories—throughout 2014?

This week’s special holiday newsletter will also note the most popular galleries and list-style posts from the year. But the most-read stories are:

1) Rare ‘Perry Mason’ moment in court wins dismissal for defendant, desk duty for 5 police officers

2) Lawyer is disbarred for ‘inexplicable incompetence’ (see video of his argument in Jefferson garb)

3) Lawyer’s suspension includes lifetime ban on representing women

4) Man to get $1.6M for humiliating 3-enema ordeal after traffic stop

5) ‘Bad Judge’ TV show is canceled after lawyer group protests

6) Name partner bolts from Chicago law firm along with 28 other attorneys

7) Ax these terms from your legal writing

8) Which students belong in law school? Law prof offers an answer

9) Suspended lawyer blames leisure lifestyle for misstatements, acknowledges snarky emails

10) As fewer law grads become lawyers, the profession shows its age

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