John Grisham spent a decade in small-town law practice before his success as a best-selling writer of legal thrillers made it possible for him to stop working as an attorney.
The author of the New York Personal Injury Law Blog has waited until April 1 to announce that he has been hired as the official White House law blogger.
As ABA Journal staffers arrived at work today, they could not help but notice that a television pilot was in production at a riverfront cafe outside their Chicago office building.
An Ohio judge who has been linked to an anonymous post on a local newspaper’s web page about a serial murder defendant in a case she is overseeing should recuse…
Yale Law School is renowned for its rare book collection. But it also hopes to make a name for itself as the official repository of the U.S. Supreme Court bobbleheads.
A federal district judge ruled today that there was no intentional misconduct on the Clinton administration’s part in its acqusition of hundreds of FBI background files on former White House…
An exclusive “news” report briefly posted on the Radar Online gossip blog this morning—that U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is about to announce…
Any relief that a California judge may have felt over an agreement to settle a 13-year litigation battle by donating O.J. Simpson’s lucky suit to the Smithsonian…
At his senate confirmation hearing five years ago, chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. compared a Supreme Court justice’s role to that of a baseball umpire.
A law diploma from an unidentified “elitist” institution is being offered for sale on Craigslist, seemingly by a disgruntled San Francisco practitioner unhappy with…
Legal thriller author John Grisham will be writing a series for younger readers featuring the fictional 13-year-old son of two lawyers in a Southern town.
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