Aba Journal
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| Jenner #1 in Am Law Pro Bono Survey | Chicago-based Jenner & Block has taken top honors this year in American Lawyer's annual pro bono survey, which was discussed in an article in the July issue. "The firm obtained a number-one ranking through a combination of having 174.8 average pro bono hours per attorney in… |
| ‘Profile’ Investigations By FBI Being Considered at DOJ | The Department of Justice is considering a policy change that would allow the FBI to investigate individuals within the U.S. without any basis other than that they fall within a "profile" considered to be suspicious. The change, which is being considered as part of a planned revision of investigative guidelines… |
Law.com News
| | Change Ahead for Law School Rankings? | may change how it calculates its law school rankings -- and some deans aren't happy about it. The magazine is considering pooling part-time students' scores after hearing claims that some schools move students with lower grades and test scores into part-time programs so they can report better data, said the magazine's director of data research. Deans warn that a slot on the list is so important that some schools would drop part-time programs rather than slip in the rankings. |
| A Rare DOJ Mea Culpa in High Court Child Rape Case | The Justice Department has made an extraordinary statement of regret for
its handling of the case of , in which the
Supreme Court last month ruled that the death penalty for non-homicide
child rape was unconstitutional. In a significant omission, no one told
the Court in briefing the case that under a law passed by Congress in
2006, child rape was made eligible for the death penalty under the
Uniform Code of Military Justice. But why is the DOJ taking
responsibility? |
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Google law
| | Helmet-law discussion gears up as motorcycle deaths rise - Indianapolis Star | |
| CHEATS AND THIEVES NOT INVITED A new law that's as good as gold - Detroit Free Press | |
Yahoo law
| | Spanish socialists want abortion law relaxed (AFP via Yahoo! News) | Spain's governing socialists, meeting at a congress in Madrid, said Saturday they wanted the law on abortion to be relaxed in the predominantly Catholic country. |
| Villages test law's merits (The Springfield News-Leader) | Welcome to Friedenswald -- population two. This 65-acre homestead overlooking the Lake of the Ozarks in Camden County is one of Missouri's newest villages, incorporated under the soon-to-be-repealed "village law," which made it possible for a single landowner to declare himself a village of one. |
Google legal news
| | Russians prepare 'legal onslaught' in battle with BP - Telegraph.co.uk | |
| UNR outside legal fees hit $1.7M - Reno Gazette Journal | |
Yahoo legal news
| | Legal fight over Williamson County road widening averted (The Tennessean) | Construction to widen a mile-long section of Temple Road in the Grassland community could begin this month, after Williamson County highway officials voted to end a legal fight with three property owners. |
| Farmers seek badger legal advice (BBC News) | Farmers are taking legal advice after the government rejected a cull of badgers in England to control TB in cattle. |
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