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Law Firms

After 247 Lateral Hires, Hunton & Williams Isn’t Finished With Expansion

Obituaries

Akerman Partner Dies Trying to Save Wife in River Accident

Associates

Survey: Associates Plan on Staying, for Now, But Partnership Less Alluring

Criminal Justice

Government Scientist Commits Suicide Before Anthrax Indictment

Criminal Justice

Widow Charged in ‘92 Murder of Tenn. Prosecutor

Trials & Litigation

Ex-Prosecutor Acquitted of Vehicular Homicide of Girlfriend

Government Law

Bad Budget News in Calif. & N.Y.; Schwarzenegger Cuts State Workers’ Pay

Legal Ethics

Yale Students Unmask Anonymous Critics; Legal Careers at Risk

Legal Ethics

Mo. Lawyer Rants Against Judge, Gets 4 Months in Jail

Copyright Law

Wordscraper is Facebook’s New Scrabulous, Testing IP Law

4th Circuit Court

New Judge Gives 4th Circuit a Majority of GOP Appointees

Legal Ethics

Prosecutor Says Millions in Assets of Two Fen-Phen Lawyers Can’t Be Traced

Family Law

Wealthy Socialite Dad Disappears With 7-Year-Old Daughter

Real Estate & Property Law

More Laws Needed to Protect Residents from California Wildfires

Criminal Justice

Motorist Killed Motorcyclist to Avoid Making Accident Report, Police Say

Celebrities

Heeeeeere’s Another Lawsuit! Ed McMahon Owes $275K, Law Firms Say

Separation of Powers

Judge Rejects Absolute Immunity Claim by Bush Aides in Prosecutor Firing Probe

U.S. Supreme Court

Study Labels Thomas Most Partisan Justice, Scalia Most Activist

U.S. Supreme Court

Forget Bobbleheads. Scalia T-Shirts Are New High Court Swag

Lawyer Pay

Pay for Massachusetts Prosecutors Ranges from $37K to $149K

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