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Careers

Is 2011 the Year of the Free-Agent Lawyer?

Personal Lives

Lawyer Chronicles His City and Passion for Pie

Careers

Is Practice Like ‘Boston Legal’? Will I Make Big Bucks? For $5K, Cornell Offers Prelaws Some Answers

Constitutional Law

Now That 5 Shelter Beds are Available, San Diego Can Ticket Those Who Snooze on City Streets

Trials & Litigation

Prominent Lawyer Calls His Next Witness in $863K Insurance-Check Fraud Case: Himself

Consumer Law

Shoppers Don’t Have to Give their ZIP Codes to Retailers, Rules California Supreme Court

Constitutional Law

Judge Overrules Parents, Gives Doctors OK to Perform Surgery on Injured Wrestler, 16

Business of Law

Banned From Suing Lawyer, Ex-Client Is Told ‘The Fault ... Is Not In Our Stars, But In Ourselves’

International Law

US Citizen, 14, Charged in Mexico as Alleged Drug Cartel Assassin, Could Get 3 Years in Prison

The New Normal

Pay Outside Lawyers Now, Or Pay Later by the Hour? Later Will Cost You

Constitutional Law

The Judge Who Tried My Case Also Acted as Prosecutor, Convicted Burglar Says on Appeal

Real Estate and Property Law

Plaintiffs Lawyers Say Bear Stearns May Have Double-Dipped on Defaulted Mortgages

International Law

Robed Lawyers Join Protests and March in Egypt, Calling for a Trial of Mubarak

Law Firms

Binder & Binder Awarded $292K; Suit Claimed Google Competitor Purloined Its Name

Legal Ethics

Comp Hearing Scheduled ‘On the Sly’ for Texting Cop Who Caused Fatal Accident

Criminal Justice

Inmate Protests His Release from Jail, Says He Has Nothing to Wear

Juries

Angry Jurors Hope to Give Acquitted Teen Their Jury Pay

Careers

King & Spalding Hires 14 Lawyers from Filice Brown; Two Partners Refused to Go

Criminal Justice

Jail Officer Who Ordered Defense Lawyers to Remove Bras Had a ‘Training Issue’

Lawyer Pay

Law Firms Flaunt Profits with Spring Bonuses, Even as Partnership Remains Elusive

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