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Gigi Gordon, a crusading criminal defense lawyer who battled corrupt police and overzealous prosecutors to free dozens of prisoners who had been wrongfully convicted, committed suicide after struggling with multiple sclerosis and depression. She was 54. Gordon, who had been sinking deeper into despair over the last year as her debilitating illness eroded her intellect […]

You would have thought Mitch McDeere would have learned by now. Back in the 1993 film “The Firm,” the idealistic young attorney (played by Tom Cruise) helped the Feds bring down the biggest law firm in Memphis with a mob family as its client. The mob boss then set his sights on McDeere and his

Lawyers could learn a few things about conveying compassion from Gregory Peck’s onscreen portrayal of Atticus Finch in the classic movie To Kill A Mockingbird. Negotiation skills feature throughout 12 Angry Men, and if you want some insight into keen lawyerly timing, look no further than the 1957 movie, Witness for the Prosecution. That film,

In a pro bono victory for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton lawyers, a Tennessee appeals court has vacated the 1985 felony murder conviction of former death row inmate Erskine Johnson and remanded his case for a new trial. The decision—issued on December 9 by the Tennessee Criminal Appeals Court in Jackson—was in large part the

American law schools are suffering a bit of an image problem. Thanks to a determined group of writers known as “scam bloggers,” it’s now an open secret that many schools admit far more students than will ever be able to find jobs after graduation. These student often leave campus with six figures of debt and,

Big law is heavily favoring President Obama in campaign contributions, pouring twice as much money into the president’s re-election campaign than into the four leading Republican candidates combined. Obama has received $4.1 million from lawyers and law firms compared with the $1.7 million that Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul have received

An entrepreneur who had just sold his business for $20 million explained two fundamental rules of business this way: “There are really only two things that matters in building a successful business,” he replied. “How much one unit costs and how much you can sell that same unit for.” He explained that nothing he learned

Only moments after Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty of one felony count of involuntary manslaughter in respect of the death of Michael Jackson, the doctor was denied bail and ordered him held in jail until his sentencing later this month. Murray, 58, sat impassively at a table with his lawyers as the unanimous guilty