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An off-duty police officer sought class action status for his lawsuit after he was shorted $45 in pay for crowd control, and following a settlement, his law firm sought $46,000…
Mar 5, 2008 3:25 PM CST
U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno of Philadelphia has tallied the number of times a litigant dropped the F-word or a variant in a deposition—it was 73 times—and…
Mar 5, 2008 2:39 PM CST
Expert witnesses are citing a test designed to spot those who are faking their pain in hundreds of court cases, prompting debate about its reliability.
The so-called Fake Bad Scale…
Mar 5, 2008 12:20 PM CST
Lawyer Mark Geragos was awarded at least $10 million—and possibly as much as $18 million—in his invasion of privacy suit against an air charter company for secretly…
Mar 4, 2008 1:43 PM CST
Corrected: At first, when attorney Michael Markins accessed his wife’s e-mail account at the law firm at which she worked, he was trying to find out whether she might be…
Mar 4, 2008 12:23 AM CST
An Arkansas lawyer is facing a contempt of court charge after reportedly telling a Carroll County judge she couldn’t appear before him the next day because she was in St.…
Mar 3, 2008 11:30 PM CST
Heller Ehrman has concluded it was wrong to cut some 2007 bonuses to pay for associate salary hikes, and it’s doing something about it.
The law firm has announced it…
Mar 3, 2008 12:11 PM CST
Mar 1, 2008 9:38 PM CST
“Kamehameha’s Children,” January, refers to the ABA’s support for bills in Congress regarding “Native Hawaiian government reorganization” and compares granting “self-determination” to Native Hawaiians to recognizing American…
Mar 1, 2008 7:44 PM CST
Associates at large law firms are a “lost generation” who are given mostly drudge work, face unceasing pressure to produce, and are kept in the dark about firm finances and…
Feb 29, 2008 12:36 PM CST
We’ve been carefully following Mac v. PC issues for a long time, but more closely since “MacGate” at law school exam time uncovered headaches for Apple computer users…
Feb 28, 2008 5:23 PM CST
Updated: A renowned legal journalist known for her decades of U.S. Supreme Court coverage has announced that she will be leaving the New York Times.
Linda Greenhouse, 61, says she…
Feb 27, 2008 11:13 PM CST
A school board for a major metropolitan area in Florida has reportedly told its two top employees to get professional help.
With Superintendent Clayton Wilcox and attorney Jim Robinson, who…
Feb 27, 2008 10:09 PM CST
By David G. Savage
The long legal battle over the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has succeeded in raising—but not yet answering—a basic question about American law: What is…
Feb 27, 2008 9:27 PM CST
Associate pay hikes have taken a bite out of profits for equity partners, according to some leaders of California law firms.
Many large California firms matched their New York counterparts…
Feb 27, 2008 11:31 AM CST
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