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White-Collar Crime

7th Cir. Axes 2 Conrad Black Fraud Verdicts, But OKs Another, Plus Obstruction Conviction

Solos / Small Firms

A Solo’s Practice Expands from a Spare Bedroom to the Supreme Court

Legal Ethics

New Ethics Case re Lawyer’s Testimony About $8.4M Detroit Pact & Ex-Mayor’s Racy Texts

Evidence

Jury Forewoman’s ‘Boring, Boring, Boring’ FB Post Could Help Force New Trial in Rape Case

Constitutional Law

Take Down Election-Eve Legal Ethics Censure and Replace It with My Order, Fed’l Judge Tells Agency

Constitutional Law

Courts ‘Flooded with Appeals’ After Supreme Court Decision on Juvenile Life Sentences

Sentencing/Post Conviction

Older White-Collar Defendants Likely to Cite Change to Sentencing Guidelines

Celebrities

Randy Quaid Says Lawyers Are Trying to Kill His Career and Possibly Murder Him

Product Liability Law

Toyota Accused of Secretly Buying Back Cars with Reported Sudden Acceleration

Halliburton Cement Used in BP Well Failed Three Tests, Panel Leader Says

Tort Law

4-Year-Old Girl Can Be Sued for Bicycle Injury, Judge Rules

Celebrities

Lawyer Convicted of Prescription Fraud in Anna Nicole Smith Drug Case

U.S. Supreme Court

Laurence Tribe’s Leaked Memo: Sotomayor ‘Not as Smart as She Seems to Think She Is’

Labor & Employment

Brazilian Court Orders McDonald’s to Compensate Overeating Manager

Internet Law

Restraining Order Issued Against Student for Twitter Punch-in-the-Face Threat

Consumer Law

Verizon Wireless to Pay Record $25M FCC Fine, Refund $50M in ‘Mystery’ Data Fees

Legal Ethics

Prosecutors Blast Ex-DA in ‘Nightmare’ Case of Innocent Man Jailed 18 Years

Business of Law

‘Totally Fooled’ by Now-Convicted Rothstein, Law Partner Tries to Explain What He Did for $450K Pay

Evidence

After Taking 8-Day Vacation for ‘Jury Duty,’ Woman Is Jailed When She Returns to Work

Legal Ethics

‘Spectacular Fall’ for Name Partner Adorno, Now Facing Suspension for Class Action Settlement Role

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