When Hank Perritt went to war-torn Kosovo in 1998 to help create computer databases to track supplies for refugee camps, armed with nothing more than an MIT master’s degree and…
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.
The word for the interrogation technique that simulates drowning—waterboarding—has become so much a part of American conversation that it’s been selected as one of 100 new words added to the…
Even though Al Franken has been a U.S. senator and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee for barely a day, he’s only days away from helping to run hearings…
Legal novelist John Grisham is writing a screenplay about the “Norfolk Four” who were convicted in the rape and murder of a Virginia women based on confessions they said were…
Stepping up to the plate to deal with an electronic communications issue that has plagued courts throughout the country recently, the Michigan Supreme Court has issued a new rule requiring…
A riveting book proposal by a onetime aide to John Edwards offers a number of behind-the-scenes insights into recent presidential campaigns. Among them, according to Andrew Young: now-President Barack Obama…
In an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday night retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor took a playful shot at the firm who offered…
When an associate in the Miami office of White & Case allegedly began an affair with a married woman, he presumably did not expect angry e-mails from her husband attaching…
When Hank Perritt first went in 1998 to war-torn Kosovo armed with nothing more than a master’s from MIT and Georgetown University law degree to create databases to track supplies…
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