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Protect America Act Gets Judicial Approval

For the first time, a court hearing has upheld one of the Bush administration's programs of unwarranted surveillance. On Thursday,…

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a decade old case on Thursday, relieving the Dorsey & Whitney…

The new firm of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, the result of the merger between Bradley Arant Rose & White with…

British author and lawyer Sir John Mortimer, the creator of legal television show "Rumpole of the Bailey," died on Friday,…

The Nevada Supreme Court has temporarily suspended a Las Vegas attorney accused of misappropriating client funds and accepting retainers without…

The former business manager and secretary for Madison, Wisconsin lawyer Randall Skiles has been charged with embezzling at least $57,000…

We previously reported that Philadelphia's Blank Rome might lay off staff. Now it's official. Blank Rome won't officially reveal how…

Atlanta-based labor law firm Fisher & Phillips has elected Charlotte attorney James Michael Honeycutt to the partnership. Honeycutt's focuses his…

The international law firm Greenberg Traurig has added Nathan A. Haynes to its New York office as a shareholder in…

Nixon Peabody has recruited as its China practice chair a former general counsel of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. Henry…

According to the New York Law Journal: Dozens of New York lawyers have reached into their pockets to help new…

When we wrote about seven Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft partners walking out, we reported that America's most elderly law firm…