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Ex-federal prosecutor charged in alleged road-rage stabbing no longer works at this BigLaw firm
A former federal prosecutor accused of stabbing a driver in a road-rage incident Tuesday is no longer working at Barnes & Thornburg, the law firm…
Retired Judge Posner must face suit alleging he failed to pay leader of his pro se center
Former federal appeals Judge Richard Posner must face a lawsuit alleging that he never paid a promised $120,000 annual salary to an employee who co-led…
Proskauer settles suit claiming 1 contract clause caused client’s $636M loss
Proskauer Rose has settled a lawsuit claiming that a clause that the law firm added to a contract in a “botched cut-and-paste” caused a…
Chemerinsky: Big cases in administrative law, gun rights and social media are scheduled for October term
We are in the midst of dramatic changes in many areas of constitutional law. Thirty years ago, I wrote the first edition of a constitutional…
Judge rips lawyers for ‘egregious’ repetition in opinion finding Trump liable for inflating finances
A New York state judge ruled in a civil lawsuit Tuesday that former President Donald Trump inflated the value of his property in fraudulent statements…
Tales of 3 generations of Black women intertwine to form ‘Memphis’
Admittedly, Tara M. Stringfellow became an attorney simply because her first book of poetry didn’t sell and she needed an income. But after a few…
Lawyers avoid mandatory religious liberty instruction, for now
Lawyers for Southwest Airlines didn’t have to attend religious liberty training Tuesday as a result of a temporary administrative stay granted by the 5th U.S.…
Judge sanctions Buchalter over $147K for ‘unsupported arguments’ and misleading assertions
A federal judge in Seattle has ordered Buchalter to pay more than $147,000 to its opponents for prolonging discovery through “unsupported arguments” and false or…
Supreme Court rejects Alabama’s bid to avoid crafting second Black-opportunity voting district
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stay a decision finding that Alabama had defied court opinions when it failed to create a…
ABA president announces Martin Scorsese, Dolores Huerta to join new speaker series
Beginning in October, ABA members will hear directly from Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, labor rights icon Dolores Huerta and other influential thinkers and trailblazers.…