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Daily Archive for December 17th, 2008

“Super Lawyers” throughout the state and the nation can breathe easy — the controversial New Jersey ethics opinion prohibiting the use of the designation in lawyer advertising has been vacated.
In its ruling today, the New Jersey Supreme Court expressed doubt whether the ethics panel’s opinion (known as Opinion 39) would survive constitutional scrutiny because of [...]

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U.S. District Court Judge John Tunheim – head of the CIA? The Wall Street Journal places the highly respected Minnesota federal court judge on a list of top contenders, apparently for his handling of a number of terrorism cases.

Tunheim was appointed to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton in 1995, when he was 42. [...]

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U.S. News rankings take a beating

Every spring, palms get sweaty and heart rates increase in the administrative departments of law schools all over the United States. Why? Because of the annual rankings of law schools in U.S. News and World Report.

In an academic environment as that in the Twin Cities, with its four law schools, those rankings can have an [...]

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