In 1981, five Vietnam veterans hatched a plan to mount an armed assault on the Veterans Administration building in San Diego. They were angry that the VA seemed indifferent to…
After a year when race and bias have been important parts of the national conversation—and when a woman of color is serving as ABA president for the first time—diversity and…
Tongue-in-cheek viral Internet ads by a young criminal defense attorney have apparently launched Bryan Wilson, aka ‘Texas Law Hawk,’ into a new role as a Taco Bell celebrity pitchman.
Updated: A former clerk for a West Virginia law firm says in a federal lawsuit that she blew the whistle on alleged overbilling of clients by Martin & Seibert, which…
Lawyers should consider warning clients not to assume that caller ID is correct when it shows that a call seems to be coming from their attorney’s phone number, says the…
Stephanie Francis Ward: You may have noticed that some lawyers are often quoted in the press. They might have a practice that naturally garners attention; or perhaps they…
A company that makes license-plate readers is offering free use of its equipment to Texas law enforcement agencies in exchange for a 25 percent surcharge on outstanding court fines collected…
Vidya Pappachan, an attorney for the Legal Aid Society in New York City, had little time to prepare for a client's arraignment on a felony drug charge. But she had…
A federal district court has ruled that a Florida Bar prohibition against individual lawyers and law firms stating on their websites that they are specialists or experts in a practice…
Microsoft Corp.'s president and chief legal officer, Brad Smith, has long been a champion for racial and gender diversity. Indeed, he says that he's believed in the benefits of diversity…
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Brad Smith. Photograph Courtesy of Microsoft.
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Sidley Austin, like many major law firms, has global offices, including London, New York City and Tokyo. And thanks to its Africa-Asia Agricultural Enterprise Pro Bono Program, Sidley's attorneys are…
If you are a millennial, there's a good chance you're making payments with the digital wallet Venmo. Techies have a soft spot for bitcoins. And more than 100 million companies…