Last week, we noted that Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley keeps giraffe figurines on her desk. Why? “No two have the same spots, and they stick their…
Since the job market is bad to begin with, some young lawyers are tossing aside the notion of playing it safe, and pursuing dream attorney jobs. Career counselors caution recent graduates to keep their options open, but some who recently sought and obtained jobs that truly piqued their interests say that they have no regrets. ABA moderator Stephanie Frances Ward speaks with two recent grads and a career counselor.
The polls had closed only hours earlier when the electronic complaint sailed across the virtual transom over the federal courthouse door in downtown Miami just shy of 2 a.m. on…
We’ve all heard the story: New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account posted a photo of “a man’s bulging underpants” over Memorial Day weekend; Weiner says that…
American courts are facing perhaps their worst crisis in decades. When the recession kicked into high gear, courts already besieged with heavy dockets found themselves taking on even more cases…
The American Bar Association recently launched ABA Home Front, a website created to provide military service members and their families with information on a variety…
The local bar association asked Angus and Judge Horatio Standwell to do the next Wednesday night program on the “art of persuasion.” So on Monday morning, Judge Standwell showed up…
This week at Divorce Discourse, North Carolina family lawyer Lee Rosen wrote about what to do when you find yourself with an angry client in your lobby.…
Stephen Riddell was livid. He was mincing no words with Steven Hall as they took turns interrupting each other during a deposition last year. “You’re pathetic. You’re an embarrassment to…
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