University of Pittsburgh Law School graduate Murphy DePompei’s short story, ‘26 Days,’ about an associate struggling to avoid alcohol at a firm event, is the 2025 ABA Journal/Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction.
Testimony that merely shaking a baby can produce internal bleeding near the brain and in the retina is too unreliable for admission in criminal cases of child abuse, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in a 6-1 decision last week.
A BigLaw firm that voluntarily paid more than $55,000 in attorney fees because of hallucinated cases in court filings won’t face further sanctions, a federal bankruptcy judge concluded last week.
Across the country, criminal justice policy is undergoing yet another pendulum swing. After over a decade of reform efforts focused on decarceration and diversion, states are now reembracing the all-too-familiar tough-on-crime approaches.
Lawyers are divided on whether income or flexibility and autonomy are their top priorities in legal practice, according to findings of a survey of 132 attorneys by Paragon Legal, a provider of temporary lawyers for in-house legal departments.
Lawyers often make their prose harder to follow than it needs to be. One of the worst culprits is time-toggling—those unannounced leaps from present to past, from recent to remote, from actual to hypothetical.
A survey released this week from Indiana University found that among U.S. law students, about 20% reported that they have a disability of some kind—ranging from mental health conditions to physical disabilities—and often feel unsupported.
A trial judge made errors requiring a new trial in a case stemming from a woman’s suicide after her 10-year-old daughter was removed from her care and held at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, a Florida appeals court ruled last week.
A lawyer has been suspended from Ohio law practice for 18 months, with six months stayed, for an incident in which he confronted ex-colleagues with a hatchet and challenged the name partner of his former law firm to a duel.
A federal judge had some good news for 22 youths in his Oct. 15 decision dismissing their lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump’s executive orders promoting fossil fuels.
The Supreme Court sounded deeply skeptical Tuesday about a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for gay and transgender minors, suggesting the justices may scuttle the statute and similar restrictions in nearly 30 states.
“You don’t know when you’re going through this that the doctor you’re talking to is investigating you,” Alexcia Stees says. It was the beginning of a long journey during which Stees, a mother of three, would stand accused of child abuse and build a new career to help others in similar situations.
The Kansas Supreme Court has rejected a recommended censure against a former district attorney who issued a press release questioning a chief judge’s statements about a plan to host jury trials at the county fairgrounds during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A partial dissent last week by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is attracting attention for her reference to a game that made a recurring appearance in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.
