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Internet Law

Music Downloader Appeals $67.5K Award, Calls It ‘Equally as Insane’ as Earlier $675K Verdict

Personal Lives

Lawyer ‘Devastated’ After Allegedly Missing Stop Sign, Causing Fatal Accident

Trials & Litigation

Wal-Mart Asks Supreme Court to Put the Brakes On Massive Employment Class Action

Labor & Employment

Coal Miner Who Videotaped Seal Leaks Wins Discipline Reversal & Legal Fees

Obituaries

Wachtell Partner Dies of Brain Tumor at 49; Teen Daughter Raised $300K for Cancer Research

Question of the Week

Extravagant? I Say It’s an Investment

Insurance Law

Does $100M D&O Policy Require Lloyd’s to Pay Stanford’s Legal Bills? Federal Judge Will Decide

Legal Ethics

Lawyer Admits He Can’t Defend $2.4M Client Embezzlement Case, Loses License

Law Firms

Squire Sanders in Merger Talks with UK Law Firm Hammonds

Death Penalty

Judge Says New Evidence in Troy Davis Murder Case Is ‘Largely Smoke and Mirrors’

Legal Ethics

Kentucky Bar Investigates Ohio Plaintiffs Lawyer Stan Chesley

Media & Communications Law

9th Circuit Allows Televangelist’s Suit Against ‘20/20’ for Out-of-Context Film Clip

Work-Life Balance

What Military Training Can Teach ‘Catastrophizing’ Lawyers About Happiness

Criminal Justice

Tax Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Hide Client’s Plundered Cash

Real Estate & Property Law

Feng Shui Makes Closings More Difficult, Lawyer Says

Trials & Litigation

Calif. Lawmakers Approve Bill to Allow Civil Trials with a Time Limit

Legal Technology

Lack of Digital Downtime Could Inhibit Learning, Studies Suggest

Obituaries

Nepal Plane Crash Kills Brooklyn Law Grad, Two Utah Law Firm Workers

Legal Ethics

Ohio Lawyer Suspended for Billing More than 24 Hours in a Day

Labor & Employment

Patient Rights Pitted Against Civil Rights in Nursing Home Bias Case

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