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Judiciary

Ethics Group Recommends $25K Fine for Judge’s ‘Bizarre’ Letters

Patent Law

Judge Overturns Rule Changes to Streamline the Patent Process

Law Firms

Sonnenschein Snags 18 Energy-Member Energy Group and Its Clients

Legal Technology

In an About Face, New Jersey Provides Lawyer Records to Website

April Fooled

Reports of Supreme Court Fantasy Baseball Case Are Wildly Exaggerated

Evidence

Goodyear Loses Bid to Keep Sealed Deposition Testimony Secret

Attorney General

Declassified DOJ Memo Said President Could Override Torture Ban

Criminal Procedure

Grand Juror Spots Conviction Error in Unusual Oregon Case

Tax Law

Texas Lawyer Gets Last Laugh in Tax Law Contest

Judiciary

So. Fla. Judge Barred From Courthouse Calls it Quits

Law Schools

Free Legal Advice Offered for Accused Music Pirates

Legal Ethics

Scruggs Says Bar’s Complaint is Premature

Criminal Justice

Jails Are the ‘New Asylums,’ Report Says

Prosecutors

Brooklyn DA Gets Moms to Protest Gang Paraphernalia Peddlers

Criminal Justice

$1M Bond for $25 Theft Lowered After Prosecutor Calls Amount ‘Silly’

Attorney Fees

Minority Leader Boehner Awarded $1M in Fees in Phone-Taping Suit

Real Estate & Property Law

‘Assembly Line’ Justice: Business Is Booming for So-Called Foreclosure Mills

Legal Blogs

A Quarter of the Nation’s Top Law Firms Have Blogs

Corporate Law

Colorado Ballot Measure Targets Execs Who Fail to Stop Corporate Fraud

Media & Communications Law

Defamation Suit Over Realistic Fictional Character Allowed

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