The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, currently pursuing war crimes cases against the leaders of Israel and Russia, has abruptly stepped aside while under investigation himself amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
The election of a new pope—who himself has a doctorate of canon law—has many lawyers interested. What exactly is canon law, and what should civil attorneys know about it? Bishop Thomas John Paprocki can shed light on the subject.
Billable-hour pressures are negatively affecting mental well-being, according to 65.5% of lawyers and staff members surveyed by ALM and Law.com Compass.
More than half of students who were preparing to go to law school said politics impacted their decision to apply, according to a survey from test prep company Kaplan released Thursday.
Updated: The Trump administration has suspended security clearances for two lawyers at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and one lawyer at Jenner & Block, law firms that sued after they were targeted in punitive executive orders.
“We need trained and passionate and committed lawyers to fight this fight,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said at an event in Washington, D.C., for the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section.
While snowbirding in Florida, I find I cannot escape the tsunami of lawyers’ billboard ads inundating the state’s roads and highways, trying to attract motorist related business.
Bar candidates who failed or withdrew from February’s problem-plagued California bar exam would be eligible to work under the supervision of an experienced attorney until they could pass the exam, according to the State Bar of California board of trustee’s latest proposal.
A law firm fellowship program for incoming law students is “the largest racially discriminatory hiring pipeline program in the legal field," according to a charge of discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by a legal advocacy group.
A number of attorneys representing clients who cannot afford legal representation in federal cases are set to have their pay halted for more than two months because of budget shortfalls in the congressional spending bill passed this year, court officials say, alarming lawyers and judges.
Law firms acquire or merge with one another all the time. But when it comes to technology companies, firms usually keep it in-house or enter into a partnership with an outside vendor. They rarely go ahead and just buy a tech company.
Some Democratic lawmakers and ethics experts are raising concerns that a plan by Qatar, a country in the Middle East, to give a Boeing 747 jumbo jet worth about $400 million to the U.S. Department of Defense could be illegal and unconstitutional.
A California lawyer with more than 60,000 Instagram followers is accused in an ethics complaint of taking fees from several clients while producing “no legal work of value” in return.
A judge in Broward County, Florida, is facing ethics charges for citing a book she never read and providing a fake recording she didn’t fully review or vet to bolster her claim that the judiciary has an image crisis.
