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Legal Ethics

What Would Superman Do? Judge Gives Heroic Examples in Ruling Against Lawyer

U.S. Supreme Court

Quick, Can You Name the Nine? Most Americans Can’t Identify Even One Justice

Trials & Litigation

Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty Appeal Over Juror’s 76 Phone Calls

U.S. Supreme Court

SCOTUS: Suspects Must Speak to Invoke Right to Silence

Media & Communications Law

Lawyer Who Won $2M for Libeled Jurist Is Now ‘Junkyard Dog for Aggrieved Judges’

Criminal Justice

Gunman Kills at Least 2 Judges, Wounds Workers in China Courthouse

Business of Law

Ex-Kirkland Partner Buys 4,500 Patents, Forms New Firm to Sue Infringers

Careers

Ex-Con Earns Law Degree, Hopes to Help Others Like Herself

Supreme Court Nominations

Kagan Went to Harvard After Chicago Hesitated to Hire Her

International Law

US Law Prof Imprisoned in Rwanda Over His Criminal Defense Work Is Now Hospitalized

Constitutional Law

Souter Rebuts ‘Fair Reading Model’ in ‘Extraordinary Gift’ of Harvard Speech

Business of Law

Longtime Obermayer Partner Is Fired Over Phila. Family Court Development Deal

Legislation & Lobbying

FTC Postpones Red Flags Rule After Lawmakers Seek Delay

Law Firms

Three More Nixon Peabody Partners Decamp to DLA Piper

Tax Law

ABA Voices Concern Over IRS Proposals That Could Threaten Attorney-Client Privilege

Careers

Robert Morgenthau Parlayed Luck & Fierce Integrity to Become ‘America’s DA’

Legal Ethics

Lawyer Gets 6 Months in Jail for Contacting Former Juror & Being Tardy

Criminal Justice

French Court Rejects Noriega’s Appeal; He Stays Behind Bars

Trials & Litigation

Judge Recounts, in Brief, How to Write Your Way to Defeat

Trials & Litigation

BP Facing Familiar Nemesis: PI Lawyer Brent Coon

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