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Immigration Law

Citizenship Request Backlog Spurs Lawsuits

Constitutional Law

Fla. Tree Owners Win Citrus Comp Class Action, But Get Only $11.5M

Guantanamo/Detainees

Fearing Tapped Phone Calls, Gitmo Lawyers Seek Confirmation

Tort Law

NY Lawyer Loses Lawsuit Over Stabbing of His Baby

Criminal Justice

Prominent London Lawyer Killed in Police Shootout

Trademark Law

Adidas Award of $305M in Trademark Infringement Case May Be Record

Juries

Prospective Juror Accused of Smoking Pot Outside Courthouse

Law Firms

McGuireWoods Names New N.Y. Managing Partner

Death Penalty

Lingering Questions Surround Death Penalty Representation

Legal Ethics

Judge Lance Ito Criticized in Opinion Overturning Murder Conviction

Tort Law

Report Slams Tactics by Plaintiffs Lawyers in Asbestos Cases

Death Penalty

Lynd Execution the First Since Lethal Injection Ruling

Legal Ethics

Convicted Murderer Gets New Trial Because of Lawyer’s Stalking Indictment

Law Firms

Firms Err When They Treat Pregnant Lawyers ‘as Bellies,’ Lawyer Says

Legal Ethics

Lawyer Fined for Client’s F-Bombs Wants Sanction Lifted

Juries

Lawyer Juror Helped Persuade Reporter to Convict Uma Thurman’s Stalker

Legal Ethics

‘Pants Suit’ Judge Back in Court, Now Suing for Job and $1 Million

Legal Ethics

Phila. Judge Booted from Bench Over 24-Year-Old Use of Bogus SS#

Constitutional Law

Jury Still Out in Fla. Citrus Tree Class Action; Millions at Stake

Criminal Justice

Robert Vesco, Famed Fugitive, May Have Died in Cuba

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