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Business of Law

Growing Midsize Firm Pays Big Bucks, Targets ‘Core Industries’

Entertainment and Sports Law

Law Prof’s Advice to Suspended Wizards Guard: Turn Off Twitter

First Amendment

Iraq Veteran Jailed Over Stop-Loss Rap; It’s Just a Song, Lawyer Says

Terrorism

Nigerian Indicted in Alleged Xmas-Day Effort to Explode Airliner

Law Firms

Loeb & Loeb Lures Morgan Lewis Partner, an Outsourcing Expert, in Latest Expansion Effort

Trials & Litigation

Pig Exits Python: Securities Class Actions Plummet 24% in ‘09 as Credit Crisis Eases

Criminal Justice

Accused Holocaust Museum Shooter Dies in Prison Hospital

Work/Life Balance

Former BigLaw Attorney Spends His Mornings Feeding the Homeless

Obituaries

Legendary Celebrity Trial Lawyer Nate Cohn Dies at 91

Bar Exam

Blind Law Grad Sues Over Bar Exam’s Human, Rather than Computer, Readers

Question of the Week

What Was Your Starting Salary at Your First Law Job?

Consumer Law

Angry About 27.99% Credit Card Rate, Lawyer Refuses to Pay, Threatens Suit

Verdicts & Settlements

Judge Seeks Contrition, Not Money, from Settling Lawyers

Labor & Employment

EEOC Says Job Bias Complaints Reach Second-Highest Level Ever

Law Firms

Law Firm Mergers and Acquisitions Fell 24% in 2009

Law Practice Management

The Year Wasn’t So Bad for Law Firms in the Second 100

Personal Lives

Legal Author Goes for the Platinum, Part of the ‘Bragabond’ Elite

Law Students

Almost 1/3 of Law Students Expect to Graduate with $120K Debt

Criminal Justice

Palin Says US Needs a Leader, Not a Law Professor

Criminal Justice

Las Vegas Courthouse Shooter Had Served Time for Killing His Brother

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