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The first season of NPR’s ‘Serial’ podcast took the nation by storm last year, partly due to its innovative storytelling style — investigating what many believe was a false murder conviction — and partly due to its main subject — Adnan Syed. Syed, who was serving a life sentence for the murder of his former […]

Things got a little better for parties seeking to recover attorney’s fees in the Fourth Circuit this week. On Tuesday, the Fourth ruled that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(d), which seeks to deter forum shopping and “vexatious” lawsuits, allows courts to award attorney’s fees, but with limits. Some courts have fully rejected the idea that […]Read More

Is five years too short of a sentence for a man found with 19 videos and 93 images depicting child pornography? Not according to Judge James S. Gwin of the Northern District of Ohio. Gwin imposed the minimum sentence against Ryan Collins, but only after polling the jurors who had convicted him. And those jurors, […]

The Eleventh Circuit has ruled that Allstate Insurance company is owed $663,000 in fees arising out of a multitude of false claims that were made by several Florida clinics. The circumstances of the case indicated that hundreds upon hundreds of insurance claims were completely bogus. The defendants appealed their loss in federal court but lost […]

Congratulations, you’ve managed to secure yourself a summer internship position at a firm and you’re certainly relieved by your good fortune. But already, you’re letting yourself fantasize: “Can I work here as a lawyer?” Yes, you can, but there’s a fair bit of luck involved, too. Fortunately, there are a number of things you can […]Read More

If you’ve been paying attention to employment trends, you’ll have noticed that Seattle is one the hottest markets sucking up legal talent. Watch out California and New York — Seattle might just be the next big legal hub. This week, as part of our affiliate program with Indeed, we went out to the land of […]

The Supreme Court’s October 2015 Term was truly historic. This term saw the death of Justice Scalia, which was immediately marked by politicized fighting over his replacement, even before the memorials had begun. It saw Justice Thomas speak during oral arguments, for the first time in a decade, and Justice Sotomayor find her voice as […]

A California farming interest league has filed a complaint in Fresno County Court alleging that Assembly Bill 1513, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last year, is unconstitutionally vague, according to Court House News. The law is essentially an updated version of a pay scheme that California has had in place since the turn of the […]

There’s never enough time. If this is something you find yourself repeating again and again, you’re not alone. Some studies that suggest that this feeling of “too much to do, too little time to do it” might actually be an indication of our ability to handle stress. But there are a few surprisingly easy tricks […]Read More

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has flagged off the pilot phase of the Youth Entrepreneurship Development Programme (YEDP) in Abuja aimed at empowering 1,500 youths with a total of N2.5 billion loan. The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele in his remarks said that the inability of Nigerian youths to access funding for businesses had […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has fixed July 23, 2016 for the conclusion of the suspended re-run elections in Kogi and Imo states, and July 30, 2016 for those of Rivers and Kano. The elections are to fill the empty legislative seats at the federal and states levels. Chairman of the commission, Mahmood Yakubu, […]

am depressed, my brother.” “You are always depressed. I am actually used to that. I can’t remember when last you were not choleric, depressed, obsessed, uptight, down-spirited, what’s that your word again, yes, anxious. You better watch it, buddie-bae-bff-bros, stop carrying the world on your back, man. There was Atlas before you. There was Sisyphus. […]Read More