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  • State Bar & Other Associations O-W

    State Bar & Other Associations O-W

    State Bar & Other Associations 03/30/2017

    Ohio State Bar Oklahoma State Bar Oregon State Bar Pennsylvania Bar Association Rhode Island Bar Association South Carolina Bar South Dakota State Bar Association State Bar of Texas Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Utah State Ba...

  • State Bar & Other Associations H-N

    State Bar & Other Associations H-N

    State Bar & Other Associations 03/30/2017

    Hawaii State Bar Association Idaho State Bar Illinois State Bar Association Indiana Trial Lawyers Association Kentucky Bar Association Louisiana Bar Association Maine State Bar Association Maryland State Bar Association Massachusetts Bar Association ...

  • State Bar & Other Associations A-F

    State Bar & Other Associations A-F

    State Bar & Other Associations 03/30/2017

    Alabama State Bar Alaska State Bar American Bar Association American Bar Association Arizona – State Bar of Arizona Arkansas Bar Association Association of Legal Administrators California Bar Association Canadian Bar Association Colorado Bar As...

  • Ohio court considers privacy rights in backpack search

    Ohio court considers privacy rights in backpack search

    Practice Legal News 03/08/2017

    The state Supreme Court will hear arguments over the constitutionality of an Ohio student's backpack search that authorities say led first to the discovery of bullets and later a gun.At issue before the high court is whether a second search of the ba...

  • Court officer investigated for photographing lawyer's notes

    Court officer investigated for photographing lawyer's notes

    Daily Legal News 03/08/2017

    A court security officer in Maine has been placed on leave while under investigation for sending a cellphone photo of a defense attorney's notes to a prosecutor. The Kennebec Journal reports that court officials are calling the incident a seriou...

  • Oklahoma tribe sues oil companies in tribal court over quake

    Oklahoma tribe sues oil companies in tribal court over quake

    Legal News 03/08/2017

    An Oklahoma-based Native American tribe filed a lawsuit in its own tribal court system Friday accusing several oil companies of triggering the state's largest earthquake that caused extensive damage to some near-century-old tribal buildings.The Pawne...

  • Immigration courts: record number of cases, many problems

    Immigration courts: record number of cases, many problems

    Court News 03/08/2017

    Everyone was in place for the hearing in Atlanta immigration court: the Guinean man hoping to stay in the U.S., his attorney, a prosecutor, a translator and the judge. But because of some missing paperwork, it was all for nothing.When the government ...

  • Raw power in North Carolina: governor, legislature in court

    Raw power in North Carolina: governor, legislature in court

    Lawyer News 03/08/2017

    Lawyers for North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and the state's legislative leaders face off in court Tuesday over whether a series of new laws diminishing the governor's powers are constitutional.A state panel of three trial judges will determine the out...

  • Paralegal Resources

    Paralegal Resources

    Paralegal Resources 03/02/2017

    California Alliance of Paralegal Associations Florida Legal Assistants/Paralegals Legal Assistant Today LawInfo.com Los Angeles Paralegal Association National Federation of Paralegal Associations North Carolina Paralegal Association Orange County Par...

  • Supreme Court and the Government

    Supreme Court and the Government

    State Bar & Other Associations 03/02/2017

    Administrative Office of the United States Courts Federal Judicial Center United States Sentencing Commission iCivics Web site (Educational & Student Friendly) Supreme Court Fellows Program White House Department of Justice Office of the Sol...

  • Court: Florida Docs Allowed to Ask Patients About Guns

    Court: Florida Docs Allowed to Ask Patients About Guns

    Politics 02/24/2017

    A federal appeals court has cleared the way for Florida doctors to talk with patients about whether they own guns.The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that key provisions of a 2011 law that restricted such speech violate the First Am...

  • US appeals court upholds Maryland assault weapons ban

    US appeals court upholds Maryland assault weapons ban

    02/24/2017

    Maryland's ban on 45 kinds of assault weapons and its 10-round limit on gun magazines were upheld Tuesday by a federal appeals court in a decision that met with a strongly worded dissent.In a 10-4 ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Rich...