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    The Law Takes a Vacation

    By The Rodent | March 29, 2001

    It is a fact of law firm life that one's worth as a lawyer, and as a person, is measured not by competence or character but rather by the number of billable hours that one is able t

  • Legal Times

    Don't Gag the Judges

    By Thomas Penfield Jackson | October 4, 2002

    The U.S. Supreme Court has recently confirmed the constitutional right of elective judges to speak forthrightly to the electors about legal issues they may be obliged to decide, in Republic

  • New Jersey Law Journal

    Editorials

    May 10, 2004

    Abu GhraibWhat took place in that prison does not represent the America that I know.- President George W. BushWe dare say that the abuse of p

  • Legal Times

    What Would Abe Do?

    By Ronald A. Berutti | February 19, 2007

    Today, the federal government is closed. Thus, there should be fewer telephone calls, filings may wait another day, and a moment or two will be available to reflect on the one lawyer tra

  • Legal Times

    Still Trapped On Torture

    By Pamela B. Stuart | April 20, 2009

    Ever since the February 2007 report of the International Com­mit­tee of the Red Cross about the treatment of 14 “high-value” detainees in CIA custody was publis

  • Law News Network

    Baby Bills, Part II

    By Bob Lande and Dave Solomon | April 1, 1999

    Editor's Note:How might a breakup of Microsoft be structured? Open Court asked Bob Lande, an antitrust attorney and law professor, and Dave Solomon, a software professional, to

  • Legal Times

    Will the Real VP Please Step Forward?

    By Adam J. White | October 27, 2008

    The vice president occupies a perennially curious office. In 1920, it was held in such low regard that a candidate for vice president—Franklin Roosevelt, no less—felt t

  • National Law Journal

    Prosecutorial Indiscretions

    By John C. Anderson | May 5, 1999

    "Be wary," White House Counsel Charles F.C. Ruff recently told the U.S. Senate. "Be wary of the prosecutor who feels it necessary to deceive the court." Prosecutorial misconduct is a growing

  • National Law Journal

    Coddling Killers, Curbing the Press

    By Fenton Bresler | February 7, 2001

    Shortly before Christmas, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, a senior English judge, granted an injunction against three representative groups of the national press that many people believe to be a

  • National Law Journal

    Courts Let FBI Run Amok

    By Harvey A. Silverglate | May 18, 2001

    It's been said that outgoing FBI Director Louis Freeh is the ultimate Teflon Man, having presided over more high-profile scandals and screw-ups than any other top G-man since the bureau's crea

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