Home Daily News ‘Colorful’ attorney with ‘massive client… Criminal Justice ‘Colorful’ attorney with ‘massive client list’ sentenced for $2M theft, impersonating his lawyer By Debra Cassens Weiss June 4, 2024, 9:54 am CDT A New Jersey lawyer was sentenced to 5½ years in prison Thursday for stealing more than $2 million from his clients and,…
Home Daily News Juror excused after mystery woman left bag… Criminal Justice Juror excused after mystery woman left bag of cash at her home and explained why By Debra Cassens Weiss June 4, 2024, 11:05 am CDT The offices of Feeding Our Future are shown Jan. 27, 2022, in St. Anthony, Minnesota, a week after…
Home Daily News Citing ‘Sixth Amendment nightmare,’ 9th Circuit… Criminal Justice Citing ‘Sixth Amendment nightmare,’ 9th Circuit allows pretrial release of defendants without lawyers By Debra Cassens Weiss June 4, 2024, 2:06 pm CDT A federal appeals court upheld an injunction Friday that requires Oregon to release pretrial defendants from custody if they have not…
As teenagers, some of us played a game with our writing assignments. The goal was to make an essay or report appear longer than it actually was. Why? Because our teachers specified a minimum number of words or pages, and we struggled to reach that number. Those of us of a certain age—say, Senior Lawyers…
Home The Modern Law Library ‘The Originalism Trap’ author wants to see… The Modern Law Library ‘The Originalism Trap’ author wants to see originalism dead, dead, dead By Lee Rawles June 5, 2024, 9:04 am CDT Originalism is the ascendant legal theory espoused by conservative legal thinkers, including the majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices….
Home Daily News Lawyer gives up license after pleading guilty… Ethics Lawyer gives up license after pleading guilty to misdemeanor assaults, including one involving associate By Debra Cassens Weiss June 5, 2024, 9:42 am CDT A Washington lawyer has agreed to give up his law license, rather than fight allegations stemming from his guilty plea…
Home Daily News ABA ‘strongly opposes’ Biden’s executive… Immigration Law ABA ‘strongly opposes’ Biden’s executive order restricting asylum; ACLU readies lawsuit By Debra Cassens Weiss June 5, 2024, 12:18 pm CDT Migrants stand near the U.S.-Mexico border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Dec. 19, 2022. (Photo by Christian Chavez/The Associated Press) Updated: The American Civil…
I remember one of my associate attorneys telling me about Netflix’s true-crime documentary Abducted in Plain Sight, but the premise—a child inexplicably abducted by her neighbor not once but twice—seemed too far-fetched to give much credit. Recently, the 2017 show popped up in my Netflix suggested viewing section, so I figured I’d give it a…
Home Daily News 7th Circuit has no patience for Bernhard… Appellate Practice 7th Circuit has no patience for Bernhard Modern—a typeface, not a person By Debra Cassens Weiss June 5, 2024, 3:48 pm CDT Chicago Lawyer Jason R. Epstein’s “brief is set in Bernhard Modern, a display face suited to movie posters and used in…
Home Daily News In concurrence confession, appeals judge… Technology In concurrence confession, appeals judge says ChatGPT research ‘less nutty’ than feared By Debra Cassens Weiss June 6, 2024, 9:09 am CDT Judge Kevin Newsom of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Atlanta tried using ChatGPT to research the ordinary meaning of “landscaping,” and…