Tough-guy Jack Bauer of the FOX TV program 24 never thought twice about hardball tactics that included shootings, beatings, mutilations and electroshocks. He and his colleagues did whatever was needed…
When his co-workers tired of hearing his views about issues related to his job and the law in general, an anonymous public defender in Connecticut found an alternative.
Considered classic holiday fare with an uplifting message, the schmaltzy It’s a Wonderful Life actually remains well worth seeing because of the gritty reality it portrays to those with a…
Those with a hunger for anything BigLaw-related will be excited to know that Paramount Pictures has set Shia LaBeouf in the title role of John Grisham’s forthcoming legal thriller The…
The creator of the Heller Highwater blog that kept the troops of Heller Ehrman informed as their law firm moved toward dissolution this fall has been outed.
Answering the question ‘What are you doing?’ (in 140 words or less) on a regular basis throughout the day obviously can blur the line between personal and professional life.
A proposal to put a 38-foot mural promoting the theme of American justice on the side of a building in an upscale neighborhood in Philadelphia has proven controversial.
Tax law professors are taking center stage in the latest political issue concerning Sarah Palin’s candidacy for vice president on the Republican ticket.
A high-school dropout and single mother who was inspired to get her high school equivalency diploma and put herself through college and law school by her brother’s 1983 murder conviction…
For more than six years, Susana Trimarco has been searching for her daughter, Marita Veron, in a saga that has taken her to seamy areas amidst potentially dangerous people.
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