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Legal Ethics

AG’s Sanctions Request Called ‘Personal Attack’ on Capital Defense Lawyers

Law Firms

Thelen and Nixon Peabody Discuss a Merger

Death Penalty

Ex-Con Clerk for Stephen Bright Pleads Guilty to Stealing His Boss’s Identity

Death Penalty

Death-Row Inmate Gets Quicker Hearing on Alleged Judge-Prosecutor Affair

Tax Law

House Ways and Means Chairman Didn’t Report Villa Rental Income

Legal Ethics

Legal Malpractice Payouts Above $2M Increasing, ABA Study Finds

First Amendment

8th Circuit: Bankruptcy Provision Violates Lawyer Free Speech Rights

Bankruptcy Law

Mervyns Sues Its Ex-Owners Over ‘Fraudulent Transfer’ of Stores

Careers

Weil Gotshal IP Associate Takes On Much Tougher Job

Trials & Litigation

Sunglasses Issue Obscures Case Outcome

Law Firms

Arnstein Plans Major Growth in Florida

White Collar Crime

Abramoff Gets 4 Years, After Prosecution Urges Leniency

Legislation & Lobbying

Banner Year for Labor Law Expected in 2009

Insurance Law

Are High Fuel Prices Accelerating Faked Thefts of Gas Guzzlers?

Criminal Justice

Fed’l Judge Gives Deadbeat Dad a 1-Year Jail Sentence

Constitutional Law

Police Beat Pakistan Lawyers in Clash Over Ousted Appellate Judges

Legal Ethics

Lawyer for Metropolitan Money Store Pleads Guilty in Mortgage Scheme

Celebrities

Bianca Jagger Battles Eviction, Says NYC Apt. is Her Primary Residence

Law Practice Management

Culvahouse Likely to Keep Job as O’Melveny Chairman

First Amendment

Pole Dancing Instructor Challenges Studio Ban with ACLU’s Help

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