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States Halting Jury Trials to Save Per Diems

From Page One of today's Los Angeles Times: The economic storm has come to this: Justice is being delayed or…

The list of candidates for Barack Obama's Department of Justice picks get shorter every day. Rumor says that David Odgen…

From the WSJ Law Blog: Irving Picard, who last week was tapped to liquidate the now-infamous Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities…

We posted last week about the University of Michigan Law School student who tried her hand at prostitution, and was…

Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has announced its 2008 associate bonuses: The firm will be paying bonuses…

I love Above the Law's Lawsuit of the Day. Whether its the guy who wrote off his girlfriend as an…

From Bruce MacEwen's blog: An unspoken, and certainly uncelebrated, aspect of the law firm associate personnel model is built-in attrition.…

Fantastic! After years of ruining people's lives by suing them for exorbitant sums of money because they might have downloaded…

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey has elected 16 lawyers to its partnership, effective January 1st. The 2009 partnership class includes lawyers…

Greenberg Traurig LLP has announced that Jessica Graf has joined its Boston office as a shareholder in the Environmental, Energy…

From Financial Week: The counter-cyclical practices of bankruptcy lawyers are thriving amid the worst business collapse since the Great Depression.…

Wes & Diane McLeod, who placed a deposit on a unit at Trump Tower Tampa, are suing the developers of that…