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Offering financial incentives among possible strategies to attract lawyers to this state

Financially incentivizing more attorneys to practice in “high-need areas” in Wisconsin is chief among proposals from a Wisconsin Supreme Court committee tasked with addressing ongoing attorney shortages in the state.

Dec 11, 2025 2:01 PM CST

Lawyer hospitalized after man body slams him at courthouse

A 69-year-old Colorado attorney was hospitalized with serious injuries after a man attacked him earlier this week using an “MMA style takedown” before a court hearing.

Dec 11, 2025 12:53 PM CST

Texas attorney will pay fees for illegally soliciting Hawaii wildfire victims

A Texas attorney found to have illegally solicited victims of the 2023 Maui wildfires was sentenced to pay court fees, according to a report by Hawaii News Now.

Dec 11, 2025 12:36 PM CST

News organizations challenge Virginia’s ban on attorneys sending court records to reporters

Lee Enterprises and Courthouse News on Tuesday filed suit against the court administration of Virginia, challenging a law that forbids attorneys from sharing public court records, according to Courthouse News Service.

Dec 11, 2025 9:53 AM CST

Pro bono work is the epitome of the holiday spirit

It may a be little-known fact to those outside the legal community, but attorneys give a significant amount of time and energy over the course of a year doing pro bono work.

Dec 11, 2025 9:25 AM CST

From Jailhouse Lawyer to 'Real' Lawyer: Calvin Duncan talks about his extraordinary journey

Calvin Duncan was wrongfully convicted. So the inmate with a ninth-grade education taught himself the law behind bars. In 2011, after being incarcerated for 28½ years, he secured his release. Duncan went on to earn an undergraduate degree at Tulane University in New Orleans. At age 60, he graduated from the Lewis & Clark School of Law.

Dec 11, 2025 9:05 AM CST

Apple co-founder, now 91, sues AI consultant for fraud and elder exploitation

An Apple co-founder is suing a consultant who offered to use artificial intelligence to preserve and promote his historical contributions to the company for alleged fraud and elder exploitation.

Dec 11, 2025 9:02 AM CST

Supreme Court wrestles with death penalty in cases of intellectual disabilities

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new rules for states to condemn those with borderline intellectual disabilities to death row.

Dec 10, 2025 3:45 PM CST

Drone delivery of steak, crab legs to inmates is intercepted

Santa Claus came in the form of a drone over a South Carolina prison yard and dropped off a special gift for some inmates this week.

Dec 10, 2025 2:17 PM CST

Lawyer, law firm sanctioned for citing fake case in lead poisoning lawsuit

A lawyer and a law firm that represented the Chicago Housing Authority must pay nearly $60,000 for filing a court document that included a fake citation.

Dec 10, 2025 1:52 PM CST

Judge orders release of ‘voluminous’ records in Ghislaine Maxwell case

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the public release of potentially hundreds of thousands of pages of documents from the case against Ghislaine Maxwell, saying that access to the records is required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Congress approved last month.

Dec 10, 2025 12:39 PM CST

New York attorney general retains Munger, Tolles & Olson in $1M contract

New York Attorney General Letitia James has retained Munger, Tolles & Olson in a $1 million contract to advise her office on legal issues regarding two civil rights probes in the city.

Dec 10, 2025 11:06 AM CST

Washington lowers bar pass score retroactively as NextGen set to debut in July

The Washington Supreme Court order stated that the state’s Uniform Bar Exam passing score, which had been set to 266 since July 2020, would be lowered to 260 on the advice of the state’s three law school deans.

Dec 10, 2025 10:46 AM CST

Los Angeles declared most abusive ‘judicial hellhole,’ report says

Rampant lawsuit abuse, “eye-popping” "nuclear verdicts" and allegations of fraud and racketeering against lawyers have made Los Angeles the worst of what it calls America’s most abusive court systems.

Dec 10, 2025 9:29 AM CST

2025 Year in Review: Generative AI, access to justice and law schools

Another year is nearly in the books. In many ways, 2025 was a continuation of trends present in previous years.

Dec 10, 2025 9:08 AM CST

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