‘Gossip Girl’ actress in custody battle can’t keep kids in US, New York judge rules

A New York judge on Tuesday ordered actress Kelly Rutherford to return her children to Monaco, where their father has been living after his U.S. visa was revoked. Judge Ellen Frances Gesmer ruled after scolding the Gossip Girl star for failing to bring the children, ages 8 and 6, to…

Aug 12, 2015 9:12 AM CDT

Lawyer says US suit is planned over crash of German plane in French Alps

Rejecting offered compensation of approximately $83,000, families of at least some of the 150 people killed earlier this year when their Germanwings flight crashed in the French Alps are planning to file suit in the U.S. Attorney Elmar Giemulla, who represents potential plaintiffs in the case, told Bild am Sonntag…

Aug 10, 2015 1:35 PM CDT

Citing twin law firm websites (1 real, 1 fake), bar group urges public to beware

Add another law firm to the growing list of those whose partners have been horrified to discover that they have an Internet twin. For anyone who might happen to see both the Hughes Dowdall website for an actual Scottish law firm and the purported London-based Damian Alden Law Chambers site,…

Aug 7, 2015 11:45 AM CDT

The Bluebook’s 20th edition prompts many musings from Bryan Garner

About 10 years ago, I was finishing a book for a friend of mine in London, the late Sir Robert Megarry, when in his mid-90s his health began to fail. The book was his New Miscellany-at-Law (2006)—the third in a series of humorously erudite books that he began in 1955.

Aug 1, 2015 6:45 AM CDT

Royalty joins the ABA in marking the 800th birthday of the Magna Carta

Aug 1, 2015 1:30 AM CDT

Political powers blunt good law, human rights lawyer says

Aug 1, 2015 1:20 AM CDT

Speakers consider the grand sweep of the Great Charter

Aug 1, 2015 1:10 AM CDT

UK trade envoy: ‘I’d give anything’ for the ABA to work with the Iraqi judiciary

Aug 1, 2015 1:00 AM CDT

What can US, UK lawyers learn from each other?

Aug 1, 2015 12:50 AM CDT

Laws need to catch up to high-speed trading

Aug 1, 2015 12:45 AM CDT

Corporations have a role in (and gain benefits from) promoting the rule of law

Aug 1, 2015 12:40 AM CDT

Google will fight French bid to extend ‘right to be forgotten’ worldwide

Google plans to appeal an order by France’s data protection agency that would extend the right to be forgotten to its search engine in all countries. The order by the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, known as CNIL, “is a troubling development that risks serious chilling effects on…

Jul 31, 2015 8:04 AM CDT

Law firms can block hackers with ‘known good’ use of digital documents, expert says

With hack attacks, including infiltration of law firm email, on the upswing, those in charge of safeguarding computer networks may need to change their tactics, international security experts suggest. Responding to a report by a British legal regulator that says it issued nearly twice as many scam alerts in 2014…

Jul 27, 2015 4:25 PM CDT

Top sports court nixes IAAF testosterone-based ban on some female athletes

Saying that there is no proof that higher levels of testosterone significantly help women in competition, a top global sports appeals court gave international track and field’s governing body two years to develop such evidence. Meanwhile, the International Association of Athletics Federations cannot ban women with naturally occurring levels of…

Jul 27, 2015 3:45 PM CDT

Ex-SS guard guilty as accessory to 300K murders in Auschwitz death camp during WWII, gets 4 years

A former SS officer who worked for the Nazis in an administrative job at the notorious Auschwitz death camp in German-occupied Poland during World War II has been found guilty of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jewish prisoners. Oskar Groening, 94, was sentenced Wednesday to four years…

Jul 15, 2015 1:40 PM CDT