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Criminal Justice

Pay Cut for $2M Legal Aid Lawyers

Criminal Justice

Pregnant Lawyer May Have Been Kidnapped Due to Dad’s Case

Executive Branch

‘Scooter’ Libby Drops Obstruction Appeal

Sentencing

Michael Vick Gets 23-Month Sentence for Dogfighting Conspiracy

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Supreme Court Eases Way for Sentencing Departures

Legal Ethics

Blog Names Year’s Top 10 (Make that 12) Legal Ethics Stories

Prosecutors

Widow of City Attorney to File Suit Blaming DA for Suicide

Family Law

R.I. Gay Couple Can’t Divorce There, State High Court Rules

Administrative Law

Big Disability Backlogs Can Mean Financial Ruin, Despondency

Guantanamo/Detainees

Detainees Ask Court for Probe Into Destroyed CIA Tapes

U.S. Supreme Court

Court to Consider Whether Disabled Employees Get Preference

Law Firms

Retirement a Looming Issue for Law Firms

Criminal Justice

Phil Spector Hires New Lawyer, No Retrial for Months

Constitutional Law

Supreme Ct. to Hear Iraq Detention Case

Trusts & Estates

Court Upholds Landlord Will Leaving $21M to Tenant

Death Penalty

25th Birthday for Lethal Injections

Family Law

Adult Children Sue French Parents for Support—and Win

Terrorism

Dems Seek Probe re CIA Tapes; Destruction a Plus for Suspects’ Defense?

Careers

Law Prof to Would-Be Supreme Ct. Clerks: Keep Trying

Law Firms

Most U.K. Law Firms Plan to Poach Rival Legal Groups

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