John Grisham is a best-selling author who has seen many of his books become major Hollywood pictures. Jason Bailey is a first-time author who maintains a busy legal practice in…
Busted in June for drunken driving and driving without a license, a Maine teenager was ready to make a fashion statement by the time he began a two-day jail sentence…
ABA Journal staffers snubbed the dog-eat-dog puns, even though clever “pro bone-o” and “illegal collar” captions made us snicker. But after reviewing more than 150 submissions, these were the three…
Movies transport us. They take us to different times and places, bringing laughter in one moment and tears in the next. But no matter how outlandish the plot, at their…
The former Army doctor convicted of killing his pregnant wife and two young daughters in a case chronicled in the book Fatal Vision has lost his latest bid for a…
Alafair Burke's fascination with crime stories came far before her career as first a prosecutor and then a law professor. In this podcast, she discusses how the BTK serial killings affected her childhood, and shares details on her novels and career.
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