The U.S. House of Representatives’ Republican Study Committee’s plan to “eliminate the Legal Services Corporation” in the nation’s fiscal year 2013 budget is “remarkably shortsighted,” says…
Antitrust litigator Bert Rein will be arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time when he represents Abigail Fisher in a case challenging race-conscious…
A New Orleans judge has sent letters to 33 high-profile lawyers asking them to handle criminal cases for free after the public defender’s office laid off 21 lawyers.
Alabama death-row inmate Cory Maples isn’t barred from appealing his conviction because of a blown appeals deadline caused by the departure of his BigLaw pro bono lawyers.
Left homeless after Hurricane Katrina hit his place in Gulfport, Miss., a 53-year-old man who has been traveling the country in a covered wagon headed west in protest of U.S.…
Martha Minow: “There is a mismatch between the existing pool of people with legal training and the large group of people who need legal services. Photo courtesy of Harvard Law School.
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