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Unwritten constitutional norms say that the president may not politicize criminal investigations and prosecutions.
Read More »Quandaries and Quagmires: Legal ethics and risk issues as of January 2018
The national legal press has been buzzing recently with breaking news in the areas of legal ethics, law firm risk issues, and the law of lawyering.
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Attorneys often work long, unpredictable hours that may not mesh well with bus and train schedules
Read More »FBI agents have to zip it with today’s politics
Rather than changing the Constitution to create truly independent police and prosecutors, the way most other liberal democracies do, the U.S. has made do with strong unwritten norms that demand the depoliticization of criminal justice.
Read More »It’s time to review clients’ estate plans
Tax changes offer opportunity to revise provisions
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Smishing is a real term. So is vishing.
Read More »Sybil Procedure: What I learned from ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’
As lawyers, we are particularly well-positioned to identify the difference between just and unjust laws and fight unfairness when we see it.
Read More »Even final, irreversible deal can be broken
From a formal legal perspective permanent agreements are tricky to create.
Read More »Perspectives: Trump’s book ban attempt far from Near
President Trump’s misbegotten attempt to stop publication of the “Fire and Fury” book, which understandably spurred its sales, was not only of questionable strategy, but legally doomed.
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