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Noncitizen immigrants lawfully residing in California would be eligible for jury duty under a bill that cleared the Assembly on Thursday.

Current state law allows only U.S. citizens to serve on juries. However, the state constitution does not restrict… (click here for more)

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Posted Apr 29, 2013 5:55 AM CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss

Text messages may be “a novel approach to client solicitation,” but they aren’t barred under traditional ethics rules, according to the Ohio Supreme Court’s ethics board.

In an April 5 opinion (PDF), the board said lawyers may solicit clients by text messages as long as they follow…(click here for more)
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Alison Frankel

4/25/2013

On Thursday night, professional football teams will hold their annual draft of college players. For the young men who are selected, the draft will be a dream realized, the culmination of years of hard work and hard knocks. But before they sign their million-dollar contracts, they might want to have a look at a photo taken earlier this month. It’s of Mary Ann Easterling, the widow of former Atlanta Falcons safety Ray Easterling, who shot himself last year after…(click here for more)

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Posted Apr 25, 2013 6:25 AM CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss

Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf of Nebraska isn’t afraid to criticize the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sometimes the court “can really screw things up,” Kopf writes at his blog Hercules and the Umpire. As an example, he offers the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision in… (click here for more)

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By Debra Cassens Weiss

About 96 percent of the BigLaw lawyers seeking help from psychotherapist Will Meyerhofer are seeking a way out.

Then there are the 4 percent who like BigLaw practice. “I don’t want to exaggerate the phenomenon,” Meyerhofer writes at…(click here for more)

 

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