With his son—the founder of a software company in Redmond, Wash.—looking on, Seattle attorney William H. Gates Sr. received the ABA Medal this morning at the House of Delegates meeting…
The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates begins its two-day session this morning, and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s address at 2:30 p.m. CT promises to be one of its marquee…
Want to build a moneymaking, dream law business that clients love while working part time? Escape the outdated business model that has lawyers working too many hours for too little?…
The legal ethics challenges that will be posed by lawyer use of Facebook, Twitter and other forms of “cloud computing” services are almost as revolutionary as the services themselves, according…
The U.S. Supreme Court in the Obama era may be more conservative than under President George W. Bush because retiring Justice David H. Souter was the only one who could…
There aren’t many practicing lawyers with backgrounds as character actors on television. And there are even fewer whose acting career includes both The Sopranos and Law & Order.
Journalists should not put themselves above the law in their efforts to protect sources and confidential information, said Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today…
Lawyers in the African nation of Zimbabwe don’t worry much about such things as recessions, competing for business or the future of the billable hour. Their focus is more likely…
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