Many people would consider Am Law 200 midlevel associates to be extremely fortunate. While thousands of their colleagues lost jobs, these young lawyers are gainfully employed with salaries in the six figur...
Restoring 1,000 hormone replacement therapy mass tort cases to the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court's caseload, the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled it is a question of fact, not of law, whether the plaint...
A class action has been filed against Facebook alleging that the social networking site illegally uses the names and likenesses of minors in California for advertising and other commercial purposes. The su...
There's so much e-mail in e-discovery it's easy to lose sight of its inherent simplicity, says EDD special master Craig Ball. It isn't just geek stuff, it's lawyer stuff, too. E-mail is really as simple as...
A judge's warning that a defendant could be subject to deportation if he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor did not alleviate the ineffectiveness of his counsel under a new standard expressed by the U.S. Supr...
A campaign is under way to win the hearts and minds of state attorneys general in the run-up to a major Supreme Court case testing the constitutionality of limits on the sale of violent video games. Repres...
On their own time, state judges are experimenting with social media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, according to a new survey. But judges doubt that that they could use the new media tools in their ...
The Justice Department on Tuesday filed an emergency motion asking a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to stay his ruling last month that blocks the government from funding research that involves human em...
A federal judge has green-lighted key claims by Bank of America shareholders in a securities class action and companion derivative suit over the bank's merger with Merrill Lynch. The judge found that the c...
Terror suspect Mamdouh Mahmud Salim was ordered to serve life in prison Tuesday for a brutal attack that permanently disabled a corrections officer. New York federal Judge Deborah Batts found that a terror...