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Hari Puttar?

Sounds familiar, no doubt. Hari Puttar is the title of a new Indian film that was set for release in the U.K. this week, only to be held up in

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Lawdable Quotes: Thomas Jefferson

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson

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Lawdable Quotes – Samuel Butler

In law, nothing is certain but the expense. ~ Samuel Butler

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Blasphemy and Beheading in Afghanistan

Now that the surge in Iraq has brought the country relative calm, many eyes are turning to the increasing chaos gripping Afghanistan. While the country’s Western backed president, Hamid Karzai,

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CREW Sues Cheney Over VP Records

This week, the Washington watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a court order demanding that Vice-President Dick Cheney hand over his records to the public.

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Controversial Section of the Bankrupcty Law Ruled Unconstitutional

The time consuming process of representing a bankruptcy client may now be lessened thanks to a federal judge in Hartford, Conn. Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Droney ruled a

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This week, the BBC News follows an increasingly valuable method of forensic investigation; the linguistic analysis of the text message. Many are familiar with the forensic technique of identifying handwriting

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Sit Back, Relax, and Enjoy your CLE Credit

This fall, the Northwestern University School of Law is offering some very tempting CLE courses for Illinois professional responsibility credit. Now, Chicago-area lawyers can earn their credit by watching three

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Free Book of the Month: Lectures on the Early History of Institutions

Lectures on the Early History of Institutions is another classic work by Henry Sumner Maine. We’ve featured another of his works; Ancient Law, on a previous post. Lectures on the

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Lawsuit Against Legal Outsourcing Fizzles Out…

This month the American Bar Association released Ethics Opinion 08-451, which approves the practice of legal outsourcing from American firms to lawyers abroad, provided that both attorney client privilege and

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