The Nuts and Bolts: Elements of a Legal Brief Every standard brief has a few basic elements: An introduction that articulates the party’s claim and...
Is neurological impairment sufficient evidence to relieve an accused person of criminal liability for his or her acts? In many cases—especially those involving the...
The petition of the day is: Butts v. Sellers 17-512 Issues: (1) Whether a court unreasonably applies Strickland v. Washington by measuring trial counsel’s performance against...
It seems like whenever you talk to a lawyer who works in a small law firm, they view their firm’s bookkeeping and accounting...
The CFPB’s Arbitration Rule has been sent to the President’s desk to join 14 other federal agency regulations that have been repealed under...
Nine years ago, Christopher Scott was sitting in a prison cell, serving a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit, praying that...
Authorities are still searching for a suspect in a shooting that killed a Grambling State University student and his friend after a fight...
Longtime Suffolk County, N.Y., District Attorney Thomas Spota and one of his chief aides have been indicted on federal charges that they were...
Immigration arrests have jumped by nearly 35 percent during the Trump presidency, reports Reveal, but the number of deportations has dropped, in part...