Spreadsheets have the potential to be an important part of running a legal business, but not all lawyers have the time to fully understand how to effectively use them. In this episode of Digital Detectives, hosts Sharon Nelson and John Simek talk to Ben Kusmin...
Children and youth in foster care are 2.5 times more likely to continue a pattern of chronic offending between adolescence and emerging adulthood than those not in care, according to a forthcoming study. The Canadian study, to be published in the November-December issue of the Journal...
President Trump has personally interviewed at least two potential candidates for U.S. attorney positions in New York, a move that critics say raises questions about whether they can be sufficiently independent from the president, reports Politico. Trump interviewed Geoffrey Berman of the law firm Greenberg...
Briefly: Subscript offers a graphic explainer on Wilson v. Sellers, which asks whether a federal court in a habeas case should “look through” a summary state-court ruling to review the last reasoned state-court decision. At The Federalist, Margot Cleveland suggests that this week’s most significant Supreme Court...
The petition of the day is: China Agritech, Inc. v. Resh 17-432 Issue: Whether the rule of American Pipe and Construction Co. v. Utah tolls statutes of limitations to permit a previously absent class member to bring a subsequent class action outside the applicable limitations period. The post Petition...
Prosecutors dismissed charges against a Massachusetts man who spent three decades in prison for a rape conviction even though the victim described her attacker as a man without any facial hair and he had a beard, the Associated Press reports. George Perrot was convicted of...