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Legal Ethics

Ethics Opinion Discourages Streamlined Contingency Arrangement

Constitutional Law

Is the Minimum Wage Unconstitutional? Two Senate Candidates Think So

Women in the Law

Meet Gloria Allred, an Attorney Some Love to Hate

Legal Ethics

Report: Court Tried to Protect Worker from Socially ‘Inept’ Judge by Hiding Her Desk

Careers

Partner’s Recipe for Success: How to Fake the ‘It’ Factor

Internet Law

Google Admits Street View Cars Snagged E-Mail & Passwords, Is Sued re Saved Search Queries

Evidence

Chevron Can Depose Plaintiffs Attorney Who Acted as ‘Political Operative,’ Judge Rules

Constitutional Law

Top Calif. Court OKs Dismissal of Up to 300-Plus Criminal Cases Due to Judge Shortage

Contracts

Dentists Sue Blogger, Say She Reneged on Deal to Pay Her Bill with Write-Up; But Later Withdraw Suit

Tort Law

Forgotten at Sea, Scuba Diver Is Rescued by Boy Scout, Wins $1.68M Judgment

Women in the Law

Ms.JD’s Education Fund to Help Two Ugandan Women Pursue Law Degrees

Animal Law

Town Agrees to Dim Lights to Protect Sea Turtles

Business of Law

Another 198 Layoffs Follow Business Slowdown at Foreclosure Firm Under Fire

Legal Marketing

Sting and Sheryl Crow Will Be Singing for PI Lawyers

Guantanamo/Detainees

Omar Khadr, Captured in Afghanistan at Age 15, Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charges

Law Professors

Law Prof Says He’ll No Doubt Be Killed If He Returns to Rwanda

Legal Ethics

Navajo Nation Supreme Court Disbars Lawyer for His Contrary Legal Advice

Careers

Why You Shouldn’t Be Tempted by a Law Firm Counteroffer

Family Law

Court Allows Pregnant 17-Year-Old to Marry; Mom Says Judge ‘Stole My Daughter’

Legal Ethics

NJ Lawyer Censured for Taking Items from Blind Vendor

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