If you send people to prison and do nothing to rehabilitate them, it’s not surprising that they often commit more crimes when released, says Judge Arthur L. Hunter Jr. of…
Sep 10, 2015 8:20 AM CDT
Arthur Hunter Jr., Photograph by Kathy Anderson.
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Inmates serving life sentences at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly referred to as the fearsome Angola prison, may be seen as hardened criminals who don’t have much to offer society.
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Sep 9, 2015 8:23 AM CDT
Laurie A. White. Photograph by Kathy Anderson.
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Ray Gallo was getting clients he didn’t even know he had.
In late 2008, Gallo’s San Rafael, California, law firm was spearheading Amador v. California Culinary Academy, a putative class…
Sep 3, 2015 8:30 AM CDT
Ray Gallo. Photo Illustration by Tony Avelar and Brenan Sharp.
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After finishing at Harvard College and before entering Yale Law School, Vivek Maru, born and reared in the U.S., took off more than a year to live in a hut…
Sep 2, 2015 8:30 AM CDT
Vivek Maru. Photograph by David Mudd.
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Making Hay the Nonprofit Way
Sep 1, 2015 8:45 AM CDT
Salt Lake City attorneys Shantelle Argyle and A. Daniel Spencer. Photograph by Benjamin Hager.
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Seventh year. Eleven new honorees. And 111 Legal Rebel profiles. That's a whole lot of change going on in what's too often called a staid profession.
Sep 1, 2015 4:40 AM CDT
Photograph by Wayne Slezak and Brenan Sharp.
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Uganda’s legal system is based on English common law, but criminal defendants who can’t afford legal representation—and most can’t—aren’t appointed counsel unless they face a death sentence or life in prison.
Sep 29, 2014 8:45 AM CDT
Ronald Deibert likes to refer to the laboratory he directs as the CSI of cyberspace.
Much like TV’s CSI, the Citizen Lab consists of specialists from several different fields…
Sep 25, 2014 8:30 AM CDT
Ann Aiken has long been troubled by the number of new federal prison inmates being locked up for violating supervised release.
Each year between 8 and 15 percent of inmates…
Sep 23, 2014 8:30 AM CDT
Emma Greenwood’s background—working for tech companies and startups—came in handy when she started her own law practice in 2007.
The New York City lawyer found herself helping attorneys who weren’t…
Sep 18, 2014 8:30 AM CDT
The Canadian Legal Information Institute was already a smashing success—and the envy of many in the free law movement—even before Colin Lachance took over as president in April 2011.
Founded…
Sep 16, 2014 8:30 AM CDT
The most traumatic moment of Michelle Crosby’s life has also been her most transformative.
“My parents had one of those War of the Roses-type divorces,” says Crosby, referring to the…
Sep 11, 2014 8:30 AM CDT
Tim Hwang went to law school and became a lawyer for one reason: To kill the legal profession as we know it.
Fascinated by the possibilities of using technology and…
Sep 9, 2014 8:30 AM CDT
Photo of Patrice Perkins by Wayne Slezak.
Some lawyers might shy away from associating themselves with the…
Sep 4, 2014 8:30 AM CDT
Photo of Gavin McGrane by Tony Avelar.
Gavin McGrane, son of San Francisco trial lawyer William McGrane,…
Sep 2, 2014 8:45 AM CDT