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Smaller Firms May Soon See More Laterals, Fewer Young Lawyers
Just as the recession caused more large companies to turn their attentions toward smaller firms, it had a similar effect on lawyers who traditionally might have been thought of as "big firm material."Advocates Urge Reforms to Reduce Number of Wrongful Convictions
Five men wrongfully convicted of vicious crimes, one wrongly accused of a sensational rape and a woman whose mistaken identification of her rapist sent an innocent man to prison joined advocates yesterday in calling for mandatory videotaping of interrogations and line-up reform.The Supreme Court takes on class actions again
Two cases present the high court with unanswered questions concerning class certification procedure.Only as Old as You Feel: Looming Forced Retirement Drives Away Paul, Hastings Vet
11 Florida women file discrimination suit against Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart is accused of discriminatory pay and promotion practices for women in Wal-Mart stores in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina and in its Sam's Club subsidiary in those states plus Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia.Blue-Ribbon Commission Urges Repeal of Military's Ban on Sodomy
A military law commission is calling for the end of the U.S. armed services' decades-old sodomy prohibition, finding the ban invites arbitrary enforcement and may be unconstitutional. In a report released Tuesday, the Commission on Military Justice -- a panel of former judges, law professors and military experts -- called the ban on consensual sodomy unnecessary and recommended its repeal. The commission was created in January by the National Institute of Military Justice and the American Bar Association.Class Action Cacophony at the Supreme Court
Recent high court cases display an abiding disagreement about permissible 'merits' inquiries at class certification.Does Idea/Expression Dichotomy Apply to Visual Arts?
The question of what is, and is not, protectable in photographs has long vexed the courts. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the Southern District of New York recently issued a thoughtful analysis of the nature of creativity in, and the resulting level of protection for, different genres of photography and their constituent elements. This led Kaplan to a more widely applicable discussion of whether the "idea/expression dichotomy" is useful when considering the copyrightability of works of visual art.Trending Stories
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