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Some University of Baltimore law students inadvertently put one foot in the real world last fall when they signed up for the Law and Poverty Seminar. In addition to reading case law related to poverty, they were required to get face-to-face with the poor.

How lovely it would be to believe that political ideology never influences federal judges’ rulings. Well, at least we can be sure that they step off any case in which they have a financial interest, can’t we?

Jim Morrison, poet, songwriter and lead singer for the legendary rock band the Doors, may or may not have exposed himself to thousands of fans packed into a hall in Miami on a hot night in 1969.

It’s bad enough that there have been no criminal convictions of any of the executives who helped bring the banking system and our economy to its knees. Now the Justice Department is touting trumped-up numbers as it tries to show it’s cracking down on financial fraud.

Santa Claus and taxes are on my mind.

Irving Picard speaks outside U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York in February. Picard is the trustee who is liquidating Bernard Madoff’s business.

Who can predict affairs of the heart?

The deed is done, and the world is a better place. At least the stock market is higher.

Last month the Missouri Bar’s Board of Governors approved a proposal to modify some of the state’s criminal change of venue rules.

Insurance companies hire lawyers as in-house counsel at reduced (wholesale) rates, pay lawyers in accordance with insurance policies, and otherwise have a dramatic influence over billing practices in the legal community.

James Turner of Independence stands with others Nov. 23 as the body of Army Cpl. Jacob Russell Carver of Freeman, drives to Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Harrisonville. Carver was killed in action Nov. 13 in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan.