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Law Firms

McDermott Leases Heller’s Silicon Valley Offices, Plans Expansion

Entertainment & Sports Law

Retired NFL Players Get $28.1M, Including $21M in Punitives

Law Schools

How the UT’s Dean Sager Hopes to Raise $200 Million—and the Law School’s Profile

Law Schools

Service Dog Gets ‘JD’ Along With Owner; First Nonhuman Degree at Baylor Law

Criminal Justice

Ex-Lawyer Who Concocted ‘Kidnap’ Pleads in $624K Client Theft Case

Family Law

Parents Leave 2 More Teens in Nebraska; 30 Kids Abandoned Under New Law

Criminal Justice

Pa. Lawyer Chained Pregnant Girlfriend to Couch, Authorities Charge

Consumer Law

‘Green’ Alternative to Gift Cards May Protect Against Bankruptcy Loss

Law Firms

Cohen Milstein Name Partner to Colleagues: I’ve Been Expelled

Legal Ethics

‘Manifestly Improper’: Personal Attorney Appears Before N.Y. Judge

First Amendment

Amish Families to Sue N.Y. Town Over Building Code Enforcement Issues

Constitutional Law

Obama to Bring Gitmo Detainees to US Courts, Associated Press Says

Careers

Ex-Baker Botts Lawyer Says Colleague’s Depressing Advice Made Him Leave

Trials and Litigation

Contractor Gets Little Money in Dispute Over Cash in Homeowner’s Walls

Prosecutors

Manhattan US Attorney Expected to Join Kirkland & Ellis

Work/Life Balance

Laid Off By Thelen, Associate Happily Moves In-House

Banking Law

Trump Files $3B Suit Against Lenders for Chicago Condo and Hotel Skyscraper

Law in Popular Culture

Law Firm Funds Controversial Phila. ‘Justice’ Mural

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court Turns Down Challenges to Victim Impact Videos

U.S. Supreme Court

Mass. AG to Make First Supreme Court Appearance in Sixth Amendment Case

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