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White-Collar Crime

Prominent Lawyers Charged with Failing to File Personal Income Tax Returns

Criminal Justice

Ex-Lawyer Accused of Using Still-Open IOLTA Account to Steal From Ex-Clients

Judiciary

Judge Who Deflated Worker’s Tire Would Accept Public Reprimand

U.S. Supreme Court

Chief Justice Practices Special Master Diplomacy in Water Intervenor Dissent

U.S. Supreme Court

Sotomayor Opinion Upholds Death Sentence for Lower-IQ Inmate

Careers

90-Year-Old Retiring Manhattan DA Heads to Wachtell

Legal Ethics

Former Kansas AG Accused of Ethics Missteps in Abortion Probes

Legal Marketing & Consulting

Ads by Personal Injury Law Firm Poke Fun at Faked Injuries

Family Law

Tenn. High Court’s Divorce Ruling Costs Class Action Lawyer $6.8M

Diversity

Diverse Law Firms Downplay Grades, Use Activism as Recruiting Tool

Law Firms

Cost-Cutting Helps Cadwalader Post 28% Hike in Partner Profits

Intellectual Property Law

Lawmaker Rejects US Apology, Asks Why FBI Used His Photo for Bin Laden Wanted Poster

Business of Law

Uncomfortable About Blowing Own Horn, Lawyer Talks About Electric Car in TV Ad

International Law

Execs & Gen’l Counsel Among 22 Nabbed in 1st FBI Foreign Bribes Sting

Civil Rights

Martin Luther King Jr.‘s Dream Is Not Yet a Reality

Law Students

Deluged with Clerkship Apps, Some Federal Judges Don’t Look at All of Them

Criminal Justice

Lawyer Tips Feds to Alleged Plot to Kill Federal Prosecutor; 2 Charged

Legal Ethics

Senior Judge Is Charged with Choking Wife in Domestic Dispute

Legal Ethics

FBI Illegally Obtained 2,000-Plus Phone Records; Lawyer Raised Concerns

Law Students

Former Clerk to Alleged Ponzi Scheme Lawyer Takes Own Life

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