Pact with ABA aims to bolster rule of law in Sri Lanka

Apr 1, 2015 1:30 AM CDT

April 11, 1961: Adolf Eichmann on trial

Apr 1, 2015 12:30 AM CDT

Artist attended nearly 2,000 trials over 13 years, painting the ‘true essence’ of what he sees

Justice was in short supply when David Louis Wall was growing up. Abused by a man posing as his mentor, he says, he was kicked out of his home at age 11 after he blew the whistle. Four years later, his mother was shot to death by her boyfriend. The…

Mar 27, 2015 8:35 AM CDT

Student winners of ABA’s Magna Carta video competition are named

Four Arizona high school students have won first place in an ABA video competition with the theme “Magna Carta: What’s So Great about the ‘Great Charter’?” The students will get a free three-day trip to Washington, D.C., for winning the competition commemorating the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. They…

Mar 16, 2015 2:11 PM CDT

Winston Churchill wanted to give rare Magna Carta manuscript to US, documents show

Great Britain’s prime minister and other officials wanted to give the U.S. a rare historic manuscript of the Magna Carta during World War II, as a thank-you for America’s anticipated help during the war effort. However, the would-be donation discussed by Winston Churchill in documents unearthed less than a decade…

Mar 11, 2015 1:10 PM CDT

Manslaughter case video shows actor Wyatt Russell running for life as train hurtles toward movie set

The movie was never completed. But a video clip showing actor Wyatt Russell and crew members, who had been filming Midnight Rider, running for their lives down a train trestle high above a Georgia river in real life, as a whistle-blowing train barreled down on them at 55 mph, became…

Mar 11, 2015 11:00 AM CDT

Pardon convicted paleontologist who found famous dinosaur fossil Sue, Senate committee urges

Saying that he believes paleontologist Peter Larson didn’t realize he was committing any crime and was overzealously prosecuted for conduct linked to his discovery of a famous Tyrannosaurus rex fossil decades ago, a lawmaker urged the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to call for President Barack Obama to pardon Larson.…

Mar 6, 2015 9:00 AM CST

March 9, 1953: A state secrets doctrine is born

Mar 1, 2015 1:10 AM CST

US offers $3M bounty for alleged Russian hacker, a record reward for a cybersecurity case

Federal officials announced this week that they are offering a $3 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Evgeniy Bogachev, a Russian national believed to be somewhere in his home country. The reward by the State Department and the FBI is the highest ever offered in…

Feb 26, 2015 4:05 PM CST

Convicted in wife slaying, profiled in book and TV miniseries, Robert Marshall dies in prison

A former insurance salesman profiled in a best-selling book and television miniseries about the contract killing of his wife has died in prison. Robert Marshall, 75, was convicted in 1986 for conspiring to murder his wife, Maria, who was shot to death in 1984 at a isolated picnic area off…

Feb 24, 2015 12:10 PM CST

Another Magna Carta is found

A small-town historian has found an ancient edition of the Magna Carta tucked away in a scrapbook compiled at the end of the 19th Century. The newly found Magna Carta was issued by royal decree in 1300, report the Washington Post, BBC News and the Guardian. Historian Mark Bateson found…

Feb 9, 2015 8:07 AM CST

Sarah Weddington on being a young, female lawyer in a watershed SCOTUS case that reverberates today

Sarah Weddington wasn’t the first to know that she’d won the landmark abortion-rights case Roe v. Wade at the U.S. Supreme Court. Giving the keynote speech at Saturday’s American Bar Foundation Awards Reception and Banquet, Weddington recalled a call her assistant received on Jan. 22, 1973. A reporter from the…

Feb 8, 2015 10:52 AM CST

Court says Aaron Hernandez defense team must remove new items from his home before jury tour

Prosecutors trying a first-degree murder case against former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez learned an important lesson from a famous first-degree murder trial 20 years ago against another former NFL star, an ESPN legal analyst says. Apparently alerted by the way OJ Simpson’s home was staged prior to a…

Feb 6, 2015 1:25 PM CST

How Dewey management’s rosy picture masked an ugly truth

In December 2011, Dewey & LeBoeuf chair Steven Davis used a calm, matter-of-fact tone in a phone interview about his firm's uncharacteristically aggressive streak of lateral partner hiring during the previous year. It was all part of the plan, Davis said.

Feb 1, 2015 4:30 AM CST

Early involvement, education are keys to keeping kids on track for productive lives

Feb 1, 2015 3:50 AM CST