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…
Legal-thriller author Scott Turow is blasting last month’s U.S. Supreme Court decision against a publisher fighting the resale of books purchased cheaply overseas.
We are proud to announce the winners of our Peeps in Law contest! “Oh the Peepanity!” walks away with our grand prize, with “Peepemptory Challenges” and “Citizens United vs. F.E.C.”…
Supreme Court journalists have been hard at work in the past few days, delivering summaries of the court’s gay-marriage arguments on live blogs and in quickly delivered stories.
We here at ABAJournal.com are pleased to announce the finalists in our 5th Peeps in Law contest. And they are: everybody except me! (Conflict of interest. Phooey.)
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