Documentary on Loving v. Virginia Looks at Couple Behind Famous Civil Rights Case For most lawyers, the U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia is a familiar one. The 1967 decision struck down Virginia’s antimiscegenation statute, which prohibited and criminalized interracial marriage. Now a documentary film is bringing to...
read moreNew Law Firm Rises from Ashes of Foreclosure Giant Two former practice leaders at the Steven J. Baum foreclosure law firm in New York have joined forces with a Michigan attorney to form a new legal partnership focusing on real estate and bankruptcy matters. Adam Gross and Amy Polowy are calling their new 18-attorney shop, which is...
read moreLawyer Sues Over New Gitmo Policy Requiring Review of Attorney Mail to Detainees A lawyer who filed suit in Washington, D.C., seeking relief from a rule that requires officials at the Guantanamo Bay military prison to review attorney-client mail, is at least the second to do so. James Connell’s suit, which names Rear Adm....
read moreWoman Set to Plead Guilty to 1987 Hospital Kidnapping of Newborn A Georgia woman was expected to plead guilty Friday to charges that she kidnapped a newborn baby from a New York hospital in 1987 and raised the child as her own. Ann Pettway, 50, has admitted kidnapping the three-week-old girl from Harlem Hospital in 1987 and raising...
read morePower Lunches Go on a Diet: Big-Firm Lawyers Are Cutting Back on Such Meetings The “power lunch” has lost some of its punch for most big-firm lawyers, according to a recent survey. But while the majority of those surveyed said they now engage in less bread-breaking interaction with colleagues and clients than just three years...
read moreABA Files Motions to Dismiss, Stay Duncan School of Law Litigation The ABA moved Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Tennessee law school in December after it was denied provisional accreditation by the association’s law school accrediting arm. Lincoln Memorial University’s Duncan School of Law is suing the ABA for...
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