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.

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.

Unless you include a disclaimer — and other quirks of European copyright law.

A Canadian judge who sparked outrage with wildly offensive comments to a teen rape victim in his court is facing a disciplinary hearing, but plans to fight to retain his privileged position. Justice Robin Camp reportedly berated the 19-year-old victim for not "closing her knees" or putting her "ass in the sink", told her "pain and sex sometimes go together" and referred to her as "the accused" during the trial. The case has been cited by women's rights campaigners as a prime example of why women fear to report cases of sexual abuse.

Abid Qureshi would fill a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

In December, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website.

Drug regulators changed their minds after saying it would “never” happen. The unofficial pot-smoking holiday of April 20 may be over, but marijuana advocates got another reason to celebrate on Thursday. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for the first time approved smoking marijuana as legitimate medical research. The DEA green-lit a clinical trial of smoked marijuana for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder...

The shorthanded Supreme Court divided 4-4 again Tuesday on one of two key questions in a case involving the authority of states to impose penalties on other states.

It was an astounding plea for sanity from the family court bench — an outspoken Hamilton judge blasted warring parents for squandering $500,000 on their bitter child custody battle. “How did this happen?” asked exasperated Ontario Superior Court Justice Alex Pazaratz. “How does this keep happening? What will it take to convince angry parents that nasty and aggressive litigation never turns out well?”

After having recently read through a few of the mostly Conservative and Mainstream Press pieces explaining why Senate...

Ku Klux Klan members who want to adopt a highway in north Georgia have taken their constitutional rights case to the state’s top court. The Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments Monday about whether the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan should be permitted to pick up trash as part of the state’s Adopt-A-Highway program. Over the next several months, the court will weigh Georgia’s claim for sovereign immunity...

Two big-name legal research companies are battling in federal court over the right to exclusively publish the law—in this case, the Georgia Administrative Rules and Regulations. The lawsuit (PDF) comes as states across the nation partner with legal research companies to offer exclusive publishing and licensing deals for digitizing and making available online the states' reams of laws and regulations. The only problem is that the law is not copyrightable...

Mexico's supreme court plans to discuss a proposal that could effectively legalize the consumption and production of marijuana for recreational use in a session at the end of October. Judges will vote on whether to declare unconstitutional parts of a federal health law prohibiting the growth and consumption of marijuana after a nonprofit group filed an injunction against a 2013 decision by health regulator Cofepris.

The Walking Dead isn’t back on the air until October 11 but AMC today tried to take a zombie apocalypse sized legal bite out of Frank Darabont and CAA’s multi-claim ongoing action against them. “All of Plaintiffs’ claims in this lawsuit ultimately will be proven meritless, but, Darabont’s new breach of contract claims alleging entitlement to an additional 5% of contingent participation should be dismissed now,” said the cabler...