Many federal prosecutions of large prostitution rings were brought before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when prosecutors were forced to refocus their resources. Now there are about 450 active cases,…
A former top aide to to Vice President Dick Cheney was disbarred today by a Washington, D.C., appeals court because of his convictions last year for perjury and obstruction of…
Administration officials have three days to draft arguments opposing a federal magistrate’s suggestion that they should copy e-mails on the hard drives of executive office computers.
Updated: A former top aide to embattled New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, back in the day when he was state attorney general, now reportedly has a new job as Spitzer’s…
A Howard University law student who is representing the District of Columbia in the Miss USA competition says pageant techniques can be helpful even in law classes.
An advocacy group claims the Bush administration apparently made false and misleading statements about e-mail backups in a lawsuit alleging violations of record-keeping laws.
The men emerged victorious in Nixon Peabody’s annual cook-off yesterday, aided by a strong showing by securities partner John Partigan, who had first-place wins in the salads…
Apparently weary of seeing clients defect to to low-cost companies in India and elsewhere when it came time to perform so-called legal process work, at least one major U.S. law…
A sports columnist for the Washington Post who fell into the icy water of a canal while trying to save his dog credits a George Washington law student for saving…
The District of Columbia Bar Counsel is seeking the disbarment of a former partner at Holland & Knight for allegedly forging signatures on an agreement for…
Partners at U.K.-based law firm Clifford Chance tell the American Lawyer its U.S. offices are thriving after a 2000 merger with Rogers & Wells that led to…
Some senior associates are making more money than nonequity partners, forcing law firms to re-evaluate—and in some cases boost—partner pay and bonuses.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered the Bush administration to issue a written report explaining why videotapes of harsh interrogations of two terrorism suspects were destroyed.
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