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Sustaining Justice: 10 Experts Tell How Courts Can Do More with Less

American courts are facing perhaps their worst crisis in decades. When the recession kicked into high gear, courts already besieged with heavy dockets found themselves taking on even more cases as growing numbers of individuals and families faced foreclosures, bankruptcies, collections, employment disputes and domestic relations matters. Many of those…

Jun 1, 2011 8:59 AM CDT

As Other States Watch, Florida’s Redistricting Fracas May Set the Lines for the Future

The polls had closed only hours earlier when the electronic complaint sailed across the virtual transom over the federal courthouse door in downtown Miami just shy of 2 a.m. on Nov. 3, hitting the docket with a resounding thud. Nearly two-thirds of the Florida voters who went to the polls…

Jun 1, 2011 8:50 AM CDT

The Son Also Rises: After Blago, Sam Adam Jr. Is Ready for a New Role

OK, call him an actor—or even a used car salesman—Sam Adam Jr. doesn’t care. He did, after all, minor in acting at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. At one point he could see his life going in that direction. But now he’s a defense lawyer, and a very good one. And…

Jun 1, 2011 8:40 AM CDT

Battle of Atlanta: Fight over a Downtown Homeless Shelter Strains Some Down-Home Ties

May 1, 2011 9:50 AM CDT

A Trove of Historic Jazz Recordings has Found a Home in Harlem, But You Can’t Hear Them

May 1, 2011 9:40 AM CDT

As Bulging Client Data Heads for the Cloud, Law Firms Ready for a Storm

Perhaps no case could be a more monumental example of the reality of modern e-discovery than the ongoing Viacom copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube filed back in 2008. In that dispute, the judge ordered that 12 terabytes of data be turned over, according to Matthew Knouff. “People often say that…

Apr 1, 2011 9:50 AM CDT