Commentary

  • Texas Lawyer

    Community Policing or Profiling?

    By Paul Coggins | April 22, 2002

    The U.S. Department of Justice is floating a test balloon to gauge public reaction to a proposal that would allow local police departments to enforce federal immigration laws. Don't sett

  • Law News Network

    MORAL COMPASS: Hide and Secrets

    By Richard Zitrin and Carol M. Langford | March 26, 1999

    Eight years ago this month, Bill Lockyer, then the powerful chairman of the state Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced a "sunshine in litigation" bill. The legislation provided "as a matter of pu

  • The American Lawyer

    How the Governing Class Became Hired Guns

    By Russell G. Pearce | August 13, 2001

    For most of American history, the work of the big-business lawyer was understood as public service. Louis Brandeis' "people's lawyer," the guardian of the common good, was a business lawyer.

  • New Jersey Law Journal

    Fee Shifting, the Great Leveler

    By Evan L. Goldman | March 2, 2007

    One of the greatest summations of all time occurred not in a real courtroom, but on a Hollywood sound stage for "To Kill a Mockingbird." Yet, in his closing argument on behalf of an innocent A

  • Legal Times

    The Amendment That Ended Slavery

    By Ted Pulliam | November 15, 2001

    "Final Freedom" by Michael Vorenberg(Cambridge University Press;320 pages; $29.95)The infrequently cited 13th Amendment seems to be the wallflower of the Civil War

  • New Jersey Law Journal

    Much Ado About Very Little

    By Leslie A. Brueckner and Leslie A. Bailey | May 8, 2006

    Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced in a preamble to its new drug labeling rules that, in its view, failure to warn and some other tort claims against drug manufacturers

  • Legal Times

    How to Block Broadband

    By Bruce Fein | May 14, 2007

    The Internet is to modern America what the post office was to the original United States. But whereas a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articlei.html" target=

  • New Jersey Law Journal

    Duke Lacrosse Case Is a Reminder Of the Vulnerability of E-Evidence

    By Tom Klaff and Bill McComas | May 22, 2006

    In the Duke University lacrosse team drama, lawyers began trying the evidence in the media the moment it surfaced. The allegation that players had raped a local woman at a party was quickly fo

  • New Jersey Law Journal

    Stimson's Contempt for Due Process

    January 19, 2007

    We, together with many members of the bar, were outraged to read that Charles Stimson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Detainee Affairs in the Department of Defense, and a lawyer, gave a radio

  • National Law Journal

    Rest in Peace, MDP

    By Steven C. Krane | January 29, 2002

    Proponents of multidisciplinary partnerships (MDPs) have consistently downplayed the risks involved in combining different professions within a single firm. Dismissing the concerns of th

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