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National Law Journal

Getting a Conviction Overturned Without DNA

When Ropes & Gray took on George Perrot's case, it seemed like a good opportunity for DNA exoneration. That is, until the firm found the DNA evidence was unusable.
14 minute read

National Law Journal

A SCOTUS Win Over Florida Death Sentencing

In 2016, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr pro bono lawyers upended the death sentencing scheme in Florida and other states, opened the door to potentially thousands of dollars in federal contracts for veteran-owned small businesses, and reined in how certain offenses count toward deportation and enhanced sentences. And that was just in the U.S. Supreme Court.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Why General Counsel Oppose Trump's Legal Services Cuts

This week, 185 corporate counsel urged Congress to support funding for Legal Services Corp. We reached out to several of the in-house lawyers who signed the letter to talk about the LSC and its connection to corporate legal departments.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

USA Hockey, Gymnastics Generating Plenty of Big Law Work

Ballard Spahr, Faegre Baker Daniels, Krieg DeVault and several other firms are advising the U.S. governing bodies for hockey and gymnastics, both of which are dealing with major legal matters that could affect their future.
37 minute read

Litigation Daily

Behind an O'Melveny Lawyer's SCOTUS Debut: Two Years, Four Moot Courts and a Plan of Attack

You always remember your first, whether it's a kiss, a car, a parachute jump—or for a select few, your first argument before the U.S. Supreme Court. At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, O'Melveny & Myers counsel Deanna Rice will join the legal profession's most elite club.
19 minute read

New York Law Journal

Yale Clinic Leads Legal Fight to Unseal Docket Tied to Trump Associates

The underlying docket involves alleged ties between Felix H. Sater, the Russian mafia and Trump insiders.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Public Interest Calendar of Events

By | March 24, 2017
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Basic Utility Needs Simply Unaffordable For Some Families

The ability to connect and maintain utility service is essential for a household's health, safety and wellbeing. Lack of service results in eviction, loss or denial of public housing, chronic health problems, the risk of removal of one's children from the home, and a host of other equally horrific outcomes. Low-income individuals are particularly at risk of termination, and often choose between utility service and other critical needs like food, health care, medicine, transportation and child care.
12 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Eviction Crisis in Phila. Demands Lawyers

Twenty-four thousand Philadelphians were sued last year in Philadelphia's landlord-tenant court. They were often low-income, of color, mothers, facing the catastrophic consequences of eviction. They faced not only the loss of their home, but a downward spiral of chaos and poverty that losing a home often causes.
13 minute read

National Law Journal

'Not My Finest Moment,' Gorsuch Says About Gitmo Letter

In a revealing moment of regret, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch said Wednesday that a 2006 email he wrote calling negative attention to big law firm that were representing Guantanamo detainees was "not my finest moment."
10 minute read

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