This afternoon, as we pored over a complaint, filed in New York federal court by rapper 50 Cent, our new editor, Jennifer Forsyth, asked a fair question: What does...

Last time we wrote about famed plaintiffs lawyer Dickie Scruggs — specifically, when he received his five-year sentence for conspiring to bribe Mississippi judge...

Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, left, and Gen. Ratko Mladic attend an assembly session in Pale, near Sarajevo, Bosnia. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic ) The big...

Lori Drew appears in Los Angeles federal court, June 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Bill Robles) For those keeping score in the MySpace suicide case, defendant Lori Drew’s...

However, it seems beyond debate that it is truly depressing that law deans, who have so many important educational issues to address, feel the pressure they undeniably...

As you may remember, last month Massachusetts got the party started by suing UBS for fraud and dishonest conduct in sales of auction-rate securities. The suit alleged...

When the prosecutor delivered his opening statement in the military commission trial of Salim Hamdan — Osama bin Laden’s former driver — he said he...

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals struck social conservatives a blow this afternoon, agreeing with a lower court that shot down as unconstitutional COPA, or the Child...

Granted, it was 15 years ago, but our memory of our first-year civil procedure class is that we spent a full three months talking about statutes of limitations....

Ah, clients. Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em. Judging from a couple stories out today, executives from a couple of law firms might...

It seems all too infrequent an occurrence that a law professor writes a thoughtful and accessible book about law for a lay audience. But Michael Heller has done just that...

Law Blog readers, please welcome Brendan Sullivan to the credit crunch’s premier corporate crime prosecution. For those unfamiliar with the Williams &...

Dora the Explorer. For law students looking for a little freelance in-house trademark work, one option might be to police fake handbags or allegedly infringing doggie...

Yesterday, as the war crimes trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s former driver, got underway in Gitmo, Fearless Leader Mukasey (pictured) was beating the Bush...

As many of you may have seen by now, earlier today BankAtlantic Bancorp filed a lawsuit against well-known Ladenburg Thalmann analyst Richard Bove and his firm seeking...

We know that last month’s Supreme Court ruling in Heller v. D.C., in which the court shot down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, made a lot of people...

Will a lawsuit unravel SOX? According to personal finance columnist Jane Bryant Quinn, it’s quite possible. Over the weekend, Quinn wrote a piece in the Washington...

The last time we heard about an anonymous hiring partner starting a blog, it was a ruse by Harvard law grad Jeremy Blachman, whose summer associateship at Willkie Farr...

It’s been four-and-a-half years since 90 million Americans watched Justin Timberlake expose Janet Jackson’s breast at the Super Bowl halftime show — a...

David Remes, a Covington & Burling partner, lowered his pants on Monday at a conference in Yemen to demonstrate the treatment of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay....