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Law Practice Management

New Law Firm Perk: Work Shorter Week Until Gas Shortage Ends

Securities Law

SEC Extends Temporary Short-Selling Ban Until Oct. 17

Law Students

Tight Credit Market Likely Won’t Affect Law School Loans

Celebrities

Missing Millionaire’s Plane Found After Hiker Seeks Lawyer’s Help

Legal Ethics

Judge Considers Dismissing Stevens Indictment over Withheld FBI Records

Environmental Law

Judge Tosses Doomsday Lawsuit for Lack of Jurisdiction

Criminal Justice

NYPD Cop Commits Suicide After Naked Man Dies in Taser Incident

Law Firms

Another Recruiter’s Suit Against a Law Firm Gets Resolved

Careers

Rick Eid: How I Quit the Law to Write for ‘Law & Order’

Natural Disasters

Ike Sewage Woes Chronicled in Lawyer’s Angry Letter

Legal Ethics

Contempt Conviction Upheld for Tenn. Lawyer Who Gave Judge the Finger

Legal Ethics

McDermott’s Shared Tab for ‘Abuse of Advocacy’ is $4.3M in Attorney Fees

Associates

Savvy Associates Disdain E-Mail, Probe Firm’s Economic Underpinnings

Law Firms

UK Firms Earn Top Three Spots for Revenue in Global 100

Criminal Justice

Lehman Brothers and a UBS Executive Investigated in Auction-Rate Probes

Tax Law

Bailout Bill Approved by Senate Raises AMT Threshold

Women in the Law

Pashto Fluency Put Law Student in Position to Help Gitmo Detainees

Trials & Litigation

Jury Convicts ‘Obsessed’ Ex-Client of Seeking Hit on N.H. Lawyer’s Wife

Evidence

Canadian Judge Castigates Pathologist; Money Pledged to Wrongfully Convicted

Question of the Week

Isn’t That Question Illegal?

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