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Homophobes Attack California Attorney General

Sponsors of California's voter-approved gay marriage ban accused Attorney General Jerry Brown of advancing a "far-fetched" legal theory to justify…

President-elect Barack Obama announced the nominations of four well-known lawyers to key posts in the Justice Department, including deputy attorney…

If you're an associate of AmLaw 100 firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, and you haven't checked your email…

The Securities Investor Protection Corporation and the trustee handling the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC have mailed…

The Lakin Law Firm has been renamed LakinChapman LLC, and former Appellate Court Judge Charles Chapman will join Brad Lakin…

In more overbilling news, Wilmer Pickering Hale & Dorr has lost a bid to toss out a fraud claim in…

DLA Piper associates were greeted with this email on Friday: 2008 has indisputably been one of the most challenging economic…

Via Fulton County Daily Report, the story of a lawyer who has gone to work for the company she says…

A federal judge, citing excessive hours and unreasonably high rates, ordered a 20% reduction in fees for a law firm…

The San Diego Business Journal reports that lawyers in "America's Finest City" saved Christmas for a group of sick kids.…

A murder defendant who has been denied legal representation for eight months is suing the head of the Georgia public…

Shelbyville, Indiana's McNeely, Stephenson, Thopy & Harrold has opened its first satellite office in New Albany. The office was established…