Broadcast news interns sported tennis shoes along with their suits and dresses this week, as they readied themselves for an important job: sprinting about 300 feet to deliver Supreme Court…
Washington & Lee University Law School’s decision to emphasize practical skills in the 3L year and subsequent enrollment surge was called the “biggest…
Man of Steel spoilers follow: As most readers probably remember from law school, there’s generally no duty to rescue unless a special relationship applies or the Good Samaritan has voluntarily…
The chief of police in a small town in Ohio has a big profile on Facebook, thanks to an alternative approach to law enforcement that has won him a fan…
An actress who starred in a local law firm commercial spoofing plaintiffs who exaggerate their injuries has sued the producer, claiming it licensed the spot to other law firms without…
Three clients—a homeless Iraq war veteran, an aging Cuban musician and the troubled son of an assistant district attorney—are the focal points of three novels selected as finalists for the…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor got the chance to sit at the center of the bench, normally reserved for Chief Justice John Roberts, this week as she presided over…
Confronted with unfamiliar words that aren’t defined either by Webster’s or Black’s dictionaries, some lawyers and judges are turning to a street-slang resource, the Urban Dictionary.
An election opponent of Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes isn’t happy about an upcoming news series about the DA’s office that will begin airing on May 28. Nor is a…
Sued by her own son, a Clark County, Wash., woman seized the opportunity to resolve the debit card civil-theft case by appearing on the CBS television program Swift Justice with…
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