Morning News Roundup for Thursday

This morning’s stories:

Kathleen Leavey, head of the City of Detroit Law Department, has resigned after referring to one of the city’s courts as “a ghetto court…”

Michigan attorney Geoffrey Fieger has lost his “right-to-criticize-judges” lawsuit in a federal appeals court…

Authorities investigating white powder found in envelopes at The Wall Street Journal say similar mail was received at Harvard Law School, addressed to Alan Dershowitz…

Palo Alto, California’s Cooley Godward has laid off 52 attorneys and 62 staff personnel…

Addleshaw Goddard, Britain’s fifteenth largest firm, is poised to lose 19 partners because of falling demand for legal services…