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Fly Fishing and the Art of Criminal Defense
When I landed a job as a public defender in my hometown, Reno, Nev., fresh out of law school in 2004, I had no practical experience with the criminal justice system.
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Prosecutors who withhold or tamper with evidence now face felony charges
Amid an ongoing controversy in the Orange County courthouse involving accusations of prosecutorial misconduct, a new law will ratchet up penalties for California prosecutors who tamper with evidence or hide exculpatory material from the defense. Under the law, which was introduced by Assemblywoman Patty Lopez (D-San Fernando) and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday, a prosecutor can receive up to three years in prison for altering or intentionally withholding evidence that defendants might use to exonerate themselves. Previously, those acts were considered misdemeanors.
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Court Leader or Leading Dissenter? Chief Justice’s Fate Tied to Election
A pick by President Obama or Hillary Clinton would put Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in the minority in many close cases, or even nudge him to the left.
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Banned! Taking pictures of the Eiffel Tower at night
Unless you include a disclaimer — and other quirks of European copyright law.
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Obama Just Nominated A Muslim To Be A Federal Judge. That's A First.
Abid Qureshi would fill a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan Muse Over a Cookie-Cutter Supreme Court
As the Supreme Court prepares to return to the bench next month, its two newest members have been reflecting on the absence of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February, and on the striking lack of diversity among the remaining justices.
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George Soros' quiet overhaul of the U.S. justice system
Progressives have zeroed in on electing prosecutors as an avenue for criminal justice reform, and the billionaire financier is providing the cash to make it happen.
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Steven Avery's attorney to offer alternate theory on Teresa Halbach's death today
Steven Avery's attorney, Kathleen Zellner plans to offer an alternate version of how photographer Teresa Halbach died.
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Peer Monitor Index Slumps in Second Quarter/Demand for Legal Services Drops for First Time Since 2013
After an encouraging first quarter, the (legal) market was blindsided in the second quarter. A drop in demand across nearly all practices took the lift out from under the market’s wings. A slight increase in worked rates was not nearly enough to make up for the shortfall in demand. Meanwhile, rising headcount and overhead expenses, and falling productivity added up to a near-perfect storm .
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Goodbye to ‘Honeys’ in Court, by Vote of American Bar Association
It is official. The American Bar Association says it is professional misconduct to discriminate against or harass opposing counsel, or anyone else for that matter, in the course of practicing law.
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Criminal Defendants Sometimes ‘Left Behind’ at Supreme Court, Study Shows
The quality of advocacy at the Supreme Court these days is quite high. “We have an extraordinary group of lawyers who appear very regularly before us,” Justice Elena Kagan said in 2014 at a Justice Department event. But there was, she said, one exception.
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Jury Trials Vanish, and Justice Is Served Behind Closed Doors
The criminal trial ended more than two and a half years ago, but Judge Jesse M. Furman can still vividly recall the case....In his four-plus years on the bench in Federal District Court in Manhattan, it was his only criminal jury trial.
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Bar Association Considers Striking ‘Honeys’ From the Courtroom
When Lori Rifkin asked the opposing lawyer to stop interrupting her while she questioned a potential witness, he replied: “Don’t raise your voice at me. It’s not becoming of a woman.”
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Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple
Judge: Repeated references to an earlier trial prejudiced jury against Apple.
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Is There a Career in Law That Doesn't Lead to Burnout?
Several new firms are trying to make one of the most brutal jobs a little more balanced.
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Heavyweight - The New Yorker
Jeffrey Toobin’s 2013 profile of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “As a litigator, Ginsburg brought cases before the Court that transformed its view of gender issues. Yet, one observer says, ‘she's very cautious, conservative in a Burkean sense.’ ”
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Antonin Scalia: Looking Backward
The Justice tried to make the United States a less fair, less tolerant, and less admirable democracy. Fortunately, he mostly failed.
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Artificially intelligent lawyer responds to questions with in depth research, hypotheses, and conclusions
Law firm Baker & Hostetler has announced that they are employing IBM’s AI Ross to handle their bankruptcy practice, which at the moment consists of nearly 50 lawyers. According to CEO and co-founder Andrew Arruda, other firms have also signed lic...
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An Expensive Law Degree, and No Place to Use It
By most measures, John Acosta is a law school success story. He graduated from Valparaiso University Law School — a well-established regional school here in northwestern Indiana — in the top third of his class this past December, a semester ahead of schedule.
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What You Should Know About Your Local Prosecutor: Travesties in Criminal Justice That Are Mostly Ignored
In many jurisdictions, prosecutors are elected officials, and municipal courts operate with relative transparency, yet voters are ignorant of deep injustices that go on every day.
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