A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer By ADAM LIPTAK Published: New York Times February 9, 2010 EXCER[TS FROM ARTICLE: While in prison, a former bank robber transformed himself into an accomplished Supreme Court practitioner.... Mr. Hopwood spent much of that time in the prison ...

A Wisconsin college student is suing the credit-reporting agency Experian, alleging that the ads for Experian's FreeCreditReport service are misleading and fraudulent.

Adam Liptak has an excellent piece in the New York Times about . Hopwood, who is now working as a paralegal, got his job with a reference from former Solicitor General Seth Waxman. Shon Hopwood, who transformed himself in Federal prison from a bad bank robber to an excellent jailhouse lawyer ...

Will the setback to President Obama's health-care reform efforts help BigLaw? It's possible, at least in one area, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer

A few weeks ago, a client who will be opening a factory in China within a couple of months told me how much he has been learning about China by following people on Twitter and following their news links. He then asked me who if I had a list of "China people" he should be following. I said abou ...

People are policy and while much attention has been focused on the profusion of buffoons and poltroons Obama has installed at the cabinet and sub-cabinet level positions in his administration, the real work of radically changing the character of our government has been entrusted to anonymous apparat ...

In the current takeover battle between Air Products and Airgas, lawyers at Cravath, Swaine & Moore are increasingly seeing their names in print in ways that aren't entirely flattering.

By Mike Baker, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. – A judge wants a security officer to accompany a former John Edwards aide as he goes to retrieve a sex tape of the two-time presidential candidate, increasing the court’s control of the disputed video. Superior Court Judge Abraham P ...

But in a move that had long been rumored, discussed and debated; debated, discussed and rumored, the Los Angeles district attorney finally took action against Michael Jackson's personal physician, Conrad Murray.

RAND SIMBERG responds to astronaut Tom Jones. “While my admiration and gratitude to Tom Jones for his service to our nation, both on the planet and off, is unbounded, I believe he is wrong in his description of the new space policy as a ‘path to nowhere.’ In so characterizing it, ...