Can You Avoid Liability by Tolling a Statute of Limitation?

One of the simplest causes of malpractice involves missing deadlines, and no deadline is more critical than a statute of limitations. If...

Is It Illegal to Give Police a Fake Name?

We've all thought it at one point -- if I get in trouble, I'll blame it on someone else. As children, we were pointing our finge...

Legal Tech Helps Sort Through JFK Files

Legal tech is helping to solve the Kennedy Assassination. Wait, what? Isn't everybody old enough to pull the trigger in 1963 dea...

40M Kidde Brand Fire Extinguishers Recalled

A shocking recall has just been issued by the CSPC and the largest player in the consumer fire extinguisher market, Kidde. The company...

Judge Tells Lawyer: No Sidewalk Speeches

Most lawyers know the ethics rule on trial publicity, but never have occasion to worry about it. The rule prohibits a lawyer from ma...

Top 5 Holiday DUI Tips

The holiday season is a time for celebrating and for spending time with family. And where there are celebrations, libations are sure t...

How to Overcome Sickness From Work Stress

Alyson, an ambitious attorney, had a stroke when she was 35. She was going to court that day, but suddenly her body went limp. She w...

What to Do When You're Kicked Off a Case

It's embarrassing to get fired, and even more so when it's executed in public. Then there's the ultimate dismal dismissa...

Florida Cop Steals From Man Hospitalized After Hurricane

When Jay Rosoff alerted sheriff's deputies that his 85-year-old father Moe was not moving around in his West Boynton, Florida home...

Constructing a Flexible Fixed-Fee Project

Law firms are looking everywhere for alternative fee agreements that work. Flat fee, hybrid fee, premium fee, break-up fee, budgeted...

How to Keep Side Jobs Legal

The days of just having one 9-to-5 job may be coming to an end. Almost everyone has some kind of side hustle on top of a regular job, ...

Conservative Vlogger Sues YouTube for Censorship

Sometimes the line between the legal court and the court of public opinion is pretty thin. Like the lawsuit by conservative talk sho...

Las Vegas Shooter's Brother Arrested for Child Pornography

When it comes to crimes that shock the public conscious, the recent shooting in Las Vegas clearly qualifies. Almost 60 people were kil...

5 Reasons You Should Be Doing Pro Bono Work

For the ABA's Pro Bono Week , you might be trying to avoid the lawyers in your office that seem all too excited to put your name o...

Common Halloween Crimes Committed by Minors

There are Halloween pranks and hijinks, and then there's Halloween crime. Often there will be a fine line between the two. As pa...

How to Pro Bono Without Losing Money

This week is the ABA's Pro Bono Week . Basically, the week is touted as a time to celebrate those who do pro bono work, and encour...

Louisiana Sheriff Wants to Keep Inmates in Jail to 'Do All That Where We Save Money'

As many have noted, the rise of the American carceral state has coincided with the demise of slavery, leading many others to note that...

Top 7 Car Accident Lawsuit Questions

When most of us think of negligence and injury, the classic example is the simple car accident. We all owe a duty to drive carefully,...

Posner Back on Track in Pro Se Case

Richard Posner, now a retired and controversial jurist, is back in court. When Posner suddenly quit the federal court of appeals, co...

California Becomes First State to Allow 'Nonbinary' Gender on Birth Certificates

California Governor Jerry Brown this weekend signed the Gender Recognition Act into law, allowing state residents to choose or change ...

Who Wins in Politics v. Prosecutor?

Keri Borzilleri, a Baltimore prosecutor, was a loyal public servant. She had worked for the city for nine years and had been a champ...

What's the Punishment for Military Desertion?

Two and a half years after he was charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy , Bowe Bergdahl pleaded guilty to those char...

Why One-on-One Motivation Is Important for Your Firm

When a colleague goes down, it can be painful for everybody close enough to experience it. Gordon Haywood, the professional basketba...

CA Prison Inmates Paid $1 per Hour to Fight Forest Fires

Two years ago, as fourteen wildfires engulfed almost 250,000 acres in California during a historic drought, we wondered whether prison...

Can You Bill Your Client While Working Through Writer's Block?

There are only a few things worse than sitting down to type out a motion, letter, or any other piece of writing and being struck with ...