Change is coming, albeit it slowly, 50 years after the March on Washington. Much has improved since the civil rights movement, but more is needed, lawyers involved in the 1960s struggles tell ABA Journal Podcast moderator Stephanie Francis Ward.
The company that owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and safety equipment involved in the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill nearly three years ago has agreed to pay $1.4…
Star litigators in Chicago are preparing to retry a controversial 2,400-year-old free speech case that famously resulted in the death of Socrates, now considered the father of Greek philosophy, when…
Robert Bork seemed “oddly unprepared” for the opposition to his Supreme Court nomination in a 1987 interview before the hearings, according to the journalist who interviewed him.
A documentary scheduled to air on Investigation Discovery on Wednesday argues that a serial murderer may have been the person who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman.
The new movie about Abraham Lincoln that premiered at theaters throughout the country on Friday has been getting great reviews, especially for a film whose plot revolves around the enactment…
Unsealing a significant chunk of legal history, a federal judge has OK’d a history professor’s request for access to the criminal trial records of two men prosecuted in 1973 in…
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