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New round of battles over felon voting rights nears
Lawyers for the purportedly disproportionate number of black and minority felons whose convictions cost them their voting rights are girding for a round of legal battles to restore their franchise.Former House speaker Hastert to join Dickstein Shapiro
Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives J. Dennis Hastert will join Washington.'s Dickstein Shapiro LLP as senior advisor in the firm's government law & strategy group. Hastert will focus his practice on legislative and regulatory counseling.Fulbright adds two partners to corporate practice
Kevin Trautner and Charles D. Powell joined the Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski as partners in the international corporate practice.Innocence Project wants more state commissions to examine justice system
The New York-based Innocence Project, which as of this week has helped exonerate 200 wrongfully-convicted people based on DNA evidence since 1989, is launching an effort to create more state commissions to help identify reasons for such faulty convictions and to change state laws to avoid such miscarriages of justice.View more book results for the query "*"
Judge in Blagojevich case may seat an anonymous jury
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat who was ousted from office in January over federal political corruption charges, may face an anonymous jury when he goes to trial next year.R.I. AG must reimburse paint companies in groundbreaking public nuisance suit
A Rhode Island judge has ruled that the state's attorney general must reimburse three paint companies more than $242,000 in costs incurred in a groundbreaking public nuisance lawsuit.Baker & Daniels launches climate change practice
Baker & Daniels has formed an energy, clean technology and climate change law and policy practice. Leading the practice are Terry Hall, in Indianapolis, and Andrew Ehrlich, of B&D Consulting in Washington, an ancillary business of the law firm.Calif. judicial council hungers for new judges
If you've ever considered becoming a judge, now might be a good time to apply in California. Vacancies in that state's appellate and trial courts climbed to a near-record high of 78 at the end of September, according to state figures. Retirements, including four last month in Los Angeles alone, are fueling this empty-bench syndrome. But empty benches mean opportunity for black-robe seekers, and there's even better news: Funding for another batch of 50 new judgeships arrives in July.Trending Stories
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