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Attorney Fees

$4.4M Legal Fees Sought in Texas Case that Brought Down DA

Family Law

Top 10 Deadbeat Parents Targeted in Calif. County’s Most Wanted Poster

Banking Law

Bear Stearns Rescue Shows Legislators Have Work to Do

Law Firms

How Blackwell Sanders Cut Attrition in Half

Banking Law

Hot Topic Post-Bear Stearns: Investment Safety Rules

Sentencing

2nd Circuit: Probation for Lawyer in $100M Fraud Too Lenient

Women in the Law

Bad Hair Day Creates Sleek New Style for McCartney’s Divorce Lawyer

Diversity

BigLaw ‘Ghetto’? Former Staff Attorney Raps Covington’s D.C. Office

Family Law

Why Heather Mills Got Merely $50M from Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court Majority Appears to Favor Individual Right to Own Guns

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court Upholds Washington Primary System

Evidence

Skilling Appeal Argues Secret FBI ‘Sledgehammer’ Notes Require Reversal

Legal Ethics

Lawyer Suspended After Second Paralegal Steals From Client Account

Law Firms

Several Atlanta Law Offices Damaged in Tornado

Legal Ethics

Lawyer Remains Stuck in Jail Over Failure to Pay $1.5M

Work/Life Balance

More Law Firms Boost Maternity Leave to 18 Weeks

Evidence

Ex-Qwest CEO Gets New Trial and New Judge

Law Schools

Harvard Law Will Waive Tuition for 3Ls Planning Public Service

Criminal Justice

As Ill. Murder-Suicide Shows, System Can’t Always Protect Women

Criminal Justice

Best Friend’s Ex Charged in Florida Attorney’s Murder

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