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Fla. Bar Reverses Course, Allows Lawyers to Tout Avvo Rankings

The controversial lawyer-ranking website Avvo is fighting battles on several fronts in its effort to list lawyers in every state. In the most recent skirmish, the Florida Bar’s Standing Committee on Advertising has reversed course and decided that lawyers may tout their Avvo ratings in advertising, the Financial News and…

Apr 25, 2008 2:17 PM CDT

Trial Lawyers Decry Chamber’s Annual Legal Climate Survey

Even before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce formally released its annual survey assessing state liability systems, trial lawyers were crying foul. The survey, “Lawsuit Climate 2008: Ranking the States,” was released today by the Chamber’s Institute for Legal Reform has yet again ranked Delaware with the best legal climate and…

Apr 23, 2008 2:41 PM CDT

350 Lawyers Trek to San Angelo, Charging ‘Billables for the Soul’

Gearing up for what surely will be among the largest child custody cases in U.S. history, scores of attorneys are converging upon San Angelo, Texas, to represent pro bono the 416 children and parents caught up in the raid of a polygamist sect’s compound. Some 350 lawyers from throughout Texas…

Apr 16, 2008 9:54 PM CDT

Meet Gerry Goldstein, Lawyer for Polygamy Sect in Texas Ranch Raid

Known for taking challenging constitutional cases, Gerry Goldstein apparently didn’t hesitate when he got a chance to defend a fringe Mormon group that advocates polygamy, concerning a controversial raid of their Texas ranch. The gray-haired 64-year-old San Antonio lawyer wouldn’t condone the alleged child abuse that led authorities to search…

Apr 11, 2008 3:19 PM CDT

Texas Scrambles to Prep for Sect Hearing

The state of Texas has dispatched about 300 welfare workers to interview 416 children removed from a polygamous sect in preparation for a hearing Thursday before a Texas judge who will decide whether to place the youths in foster care. The Texas Bar Association is trying to recruit almost 100…

Apr 11, 2008 1:35 PM CDT

Lawyer Protests Spark Pakistan Violence; At Least 7 Killed

Lawyer protests in a major Pakistan city yesterday sparked widespread rioting there in which at least seven people were reportedly killed, offices were set ablaze and a bar association office was gutted. “Trouble broke out when attorneys—some supportive of the new government and others critical—clashed near the main courts complex…

Apr 10, 2008 3:40 PM CDT

N.Y. Bar Report: Balanced Life is Rare, But We Are the Enemy

Despite flex-time, part-time and other commonplace law firm policies that promote work-life balance, the reality is quite different from what the employee manual might suggest. Attorneys in an ever-more-stressful profession are sacrificing family time and their personal lives to keep up with their work, according to a committee report adopted…

Apr 9, 2008 7:34 PM CDT

Righting Wrongs

ABA ethics amendments confirm prosecutors’ duty to disclose new evidence

Apr 1, 2008 8:57 PM CDT

Scruggs Says Bar’s Complaint is Premature

Disgraced plaintiffs lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to reject a petition to have him disbarred, arguing that the effort is premature. The Mississippi Bar Association recently asked the state’s high court to strip Scruggs of his law license. Scruggs pleaded guilty March 14 to conspiring…

Apr 1, 2008 8:03 PM CDT

ABA Announces Nominations

House of Delegates will finalize selections for leadership posts

Apr 1, 2008 3:02 PM CDT

Boston Bar Prez Decries Law’s Focus on Money

Too many lawyers judge their success on the basis of money, to the detriment of the profession and their own happiness. That’s the conclusion of Boston Bar Association President Anthony Doniger, who sees contentment as a better measure of success. The focus on money is causing law firms to make…

Mar 11, 2008 3:32 PM CDT

Hollywood Zingers

Movies and TV portray lawyers without apology

Mar 1, 2008 6:10 PM CST

Gathering Facts

ABA to check U.S. and other countries for rule of law

Mar 1, 2008 5:30 PM CST

Endorsing Early Treatment

Conditional bar admission aims to encourage timely help

Mar 1, 2008 5:00 PM CST

A Lamm Shall Lead

D.C.-based lawyer nominated to be president-elect

Mar 1, 2008 4:30 PM CST

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