In South Carolina, most court-appointed lawyers who represent indigent clients in criminal and civil cases won’t get paid by the state after this Wednesday, because of budget cuts. The SC…
An interesting story at the DC Examiner, about the results of a study from the National Association for Law Placement: Female partners in DC law firms are taking part-time hours at…
In Illinois (and it had to be Illinois), persons with records for non-violent misdemeanors and low-level drug & prostitution felonies can have their record expunged by petitioning a judge four years…
A new law school is opening at the University of California Irvine next fall. And it’s waiving tuition for three years to lure top applicants: The financial carrot is part…
A legal adviser for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is demanding that a Georgia judge apologize for jailing a woman who refused to remove her hijab, the traditional Muslim head covering,…
What’s going on in the legal world? A San Francisco landlord for Heller Ehrman won a court ruling earlier this month, that means bankruptcy is now likely for the defunct…
The California Supreme Court has voted unanimously not to review Sturgeon v. County of Los Angeles, which means judges in the nation’s largest county may lose up to $50,000 a year in…
A San Francisco landlord for Heller Ehrman won a court ruling earlier this month, that means bankruptcy is now likely for the defunct law firm. The San Francisco Superior Court…
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