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A Malpractice Claim Waiting to Happen
When a law firm buys malpractice insurance, how clairvoyant must it be in predicting possible claims? A Hackensack, N.J., firm maybe should have seen one coming, since it purchased its policy at the tail end of an eight-year appeal of a dismissal of a suit as time-barred. According to the carrier, failure to sue on time was malpractice per se, and the firm had a duty to disclose it on the insurance application. A New Jersey appellate court agreed and denied coverage.Chief justice ponders supreme court's declining caseload
The number of cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court is declining in part because of the lack of significant legislation coming out of Congress, Chief Justice John Roberts said at the Alaska Bar Association's annual convention. "No one actually knows why the number of cases we are taking is declining," Roberts said Thursday. Another possible reason, he said, is that circuit courts can locate previous legal decisions online in cases where they might have once turned to the Supreme Court for guidance.Defenders Fight Penny-pinching in Death-Eligible Cases
Contra Costa Public Defender Robin Lipetzky got the state Supreme Court to intervene after the county said it wouldn't fund capital defense costs until prosecutors made clear they'd seek death.View more book results for the query "*"
The Dilemma of the Hamstrung Defendant
Michelle Merola, a partner at Hodgson Russ, and Reetuparna Dutta, an associate with the firm, argue that, because one of the few remaining areas where an indictment is open to challenge because of a matter occurring before a grand jury is prosecutorial misconduct, defendants should routinely have access to the grand jury record, including the legal instructions, after they have been indicted.Murder highlights safety risks of family law
At 9:20 a.m. on June 2, Carey Hal Dyess walked into the converted single-story house that served as Jerrold Shelley's law office in Yuma, Ariz.Dyess, 73, instructed an office administrator to move out of the way and then shot and killed the 62-year-old lawyer, who had been in the process of packing up his office and retiring.Supreme Court Next Step For DOMA?
Leaders of the Connecticut Bar Association were on the winning side of the legal fight for federal benefits for same-sex couples last week, when a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a federal law defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman is unconstitutional.Verdict Reversed Over Restriction Of Threat Evidence
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