Commentary

  • The Recorder

    Baaad Behavior

    By William W. Bedsworth | March 30, 2009

    The late William Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, was compared by some critics to Poe, Baudelaire, and Blake. This is remarkable praise for a guy who wrote only one signi

  • Legal Times

    Free the Uighurs!

    By Aziz Huq | October 13, 2008

    On Oct. 7, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order, unprecedented over the last seven years, directing the government to release immediately 17 Chinese

  • Legal Times

    Nab and Blab: Taking Down Blagojevich

    By Margie Burns | December 15, 2008

    Why on Dec. 9 did U.S. Attor­ney Patrick Fitzgerald arrest the governor of Illinois? Was Rod Blagojevich going to appoint a senator to fill Barack Obama’s seat before the

  • Legal Times

    A January Surprise

    By Evan P. Schultz | January 12, 2009

    Will he or won’t he? Will the president sometime (very) soon grant pardons for members of the Bush administration, past and present, including Vice President Dick Cheney, for

  • Legal Times

    I ♥ Lawyers

    By Edward Honnold | February 13, 2006

    "You're never at home," complains Susan, a 42-year-old lawyer turned homemaker, glowering angrily at her spouse of 12 years. "How do you expect our marriage to work if you never see me o

  • The Recorder

    They All Jumped the Fence

    By William W. Bedsworth | August 25, 2008

    When Kurt Vonnegut died last year, Sports Illustrated ran an obituary. This was unusual. SI has a section in which they typically run short obituaries of sports figures, b

  • Legal Times

    A Judgment Call

    By Peter B. Rutledge | August 7, 2006

    Adverse judicial orders are a reality for every lawyer. The possible responses range from acceptance, to appeal, to downright anger in the case of orders that, in the lawyer's mind, are

  • Legal Times

    A Healing Justice

    By Alexander Koff and Joseph L. Morales | July 14, 2008

    Look out, General Motors. Move over, Toyota. Sierra Leone is introducing its own brand of hybrid—and it’s attracting significant attention from, well, lawyers and polit

  • Legal Times

    Terror Trials Work

    By David H. Laufman | November 5, 2007

    Attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey has a distinguished record, and, if confirmed, he will likely provide the leadership the Justice Department needs. But Mukasey believes that the

  • Legal Times

    Good Choice, Sir

    By Timothy J. Heaphy | October 13, 2008

    The scathing report released last month by the Justice Depart­ment’s internal watchdogs confirms what months of media coverage have suggested—that politics, in part

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