In South Carolina, most court-appointed lawyers who represent indigent clients in criminal and civil cases won’t get paid by the state after...
An interesting story at the DC Examiner, about the results of a study from the National Association for Law Placement: Female partners in...
President-elect Barack Obama is attracting even more Washington lawyers to his incoming administration. Cassandra Butts, who met Obama at Harvard Law, will...
In Illinois (and it had to be Illinois), persons with records for non-violent misdemeanors and low-level drug & prostitution felonies can have their...
The American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees is attempting to block a Polk County, Oregon District Attorney from sacking five deputy...
A new law school is opening at the University of California Irvine next fall. And it’s waiving tuition for three years to...
A legal adviser for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is demanding that a Georgia judge apologize for jailing a woman who refused to...
The California Supreme Court has voted unanimously not to review Sturgeon v. County of Los Angeles, which means judges in the nation’s largest county...
A San Francisco landlord for Heller Ehrman won a court ruling earlier this month, that means bankruptcy is now likely for the...
Bloomberg has a story about the sheer chutzpah that disgraced lawyer Marc Dreier used to scam investors and charities out of $380...
Top aides to President-elect Barack Obama are lawyering up, in anticipation of questioning in the probe of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich’s alleged attempt...
A lawyer who sent his paralegal to a court hearing where she advocated for a client should be censured, a Disciplinary Review...
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