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Do Reduced-Hour Workloads Derail Partnership-Track Careers? (Podcast)

Verdicts & Settlements

Dad Settles Suit Against Crocs Over Daughter’s Escalator Injury

Trials & Litigation

Defense Lawyer Hit with Flying Purse, Grabbed by Victim’s Dad in Courtroom Outburst

U.S. Supreme Court

Calls for Impeachment of Thomas, Sotomayor and Roberts Unlikely to Go Far

Labor & Employment

Suit Claims Constantine Cannon Partner Sexually Harassed Ex-Bodyguard

Judiciary

Rejected as a Judge, First Amendment Lawyer Denies ‘Merry Christmas’ Hostility

Law in Popular Culture

Lionel Hutz Tops List of Top Fictional Cartoon Lawyers

White-Collar Crime

7th Cir. Axes 2 Conrad Black Fraud Verdicts, But OKs Another, Plus Obstruction Conviction

Solos / Small Firms

A Solo’s Practice Expands from a Spare Bedroom to the Supreme Court

Legal Ethics

New Ethics Case re Lawyer’s Testimony About $8.4M Detroit Pact & Ex-Mayor’s Racy Texts

Evidence

Jury Forewoman’s ‘Boring, Boring, Boring’ FB Post Could Help Force New Trial in Rape Case

Constitutional Law

Take Down Election-Eve Legal Ethics Censure and Replace It with My Order, Fed’l Judge Tells Agency

Constitutional Law

Courts ‘Flooded with Appeals’ After Supreme Court Decision on Juvenile Life Sentences

Sentencing/Post Conviction

Older White-Collar Defendants Likely to Cite Change to Sentencing Guidelines

Celebrities

Randy Quaid Says Lawyers Are Trying to Kill His Career and Possibly Murder Him

Product Liability Law

Toyota Accused of Secretly Buying Back Cars with Reported Sudden Acceleration

Halliburton Cement Used in BP Well Failed Three Tests, Panel Leader Says

Tort Law

4-Year-Old Girl Can Be Sued for Bicycle Injury, Judge Rules

Celebrities

Lawyer Convicted of Prescription Fraud in Anna Nicole Smith Drug Case

U.S. Supreme Court

Laurence Tribe’s Leaked Memo: Sotomayor ‘Not as Smart as She Seems to Think She Is’

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