Linda Greenhouse may know the inner workings of the U.S. Supreme Court better than most of the current justices. Since 1978, she has been the Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times for all but two years when she ...
Read More »Linda Greenhouse on judicial drift
Linda Greenhouse may know the inner workings of the U.S. Supreme Court better than most of the current justices. Since 1978, she has been the Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times for all but two years when she ...
Read More »Poll: Would apprenticeships create better lawyers?
It’s always gratifying when one’s opinions receive outside support. A few months back I wrote in this column that law schools really don’t teach the day-to-day aspects of being a lawyer — interacting with clients and running a practice — ...
Read More »Meneghello: Declare war now on the ‘problem employee’
Problem: Your problem is the same problem that it’s always been: your problem employee. All of you reading this know whom I’m talking about. The problem employee is the one employee that eats up your time. One day you’re hand-holding ...
Read More »Connaghan: Headlines shouldn’t decide what’s law
Many times a big news story will inspire a state representative or senator to file a bill addressing some concern related to the story. These bills are quickly put together to capitalize on the public’s outrage about a perceived injustice ...
Read More »As activism increases, pro bono attorneys defend the protesters
Attorney William T. Quick became active in his assistance to the anti-war movement on Good Friday in 2002. His wife was among his first clients. Diane Lee asked her husband to come along as a legal observer to a demonstration ...
Read More »Napier: When more money means less respect
Sometimes this business, the law business, is counterintuitive. I had a free hour or so on a recent Friday night after the little man went to bed, and my wife was on her way to bed in preparation for an ...
Read More »Mathis: Bill would aid public defender system
A bill introduced by Sen. Richard Durbin, of Illinois, provides a winning solution for all of us concerned that low wages paid to prosecutors and public defenders, along with the high cost of law school, are undermining confidence in the ...
Read More »Bill would aid public defender systemv
A bill introduced by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) provides a winning solution for all of us concerned that low wages paid prosecutors and public defenders, along with the high cost of law school, are undermining confidence in the effectiveness of ...
Read More »Headlines shouldn’t make laws
Many times a big news story will inspire a state representative or senator to file a bill addressing some concern related to the story. These bills are quickly put together to capitalize on the public’s outrage about a perceived injustice ...
Read More »Wolff: State system keeps TV hijinks out of Missouri courtrooms
Viewers of popular television shows about lawyers are likely to be left with some strange impressions of lawyers’ ethics. From some shows, they even may get the impression that there aren’t any. For example, although Denny Crane and Alan Shore ...
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