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Legal barriers to prosecuting Bush-era officials over alleged torture would be substantial, legal experts said Wednesday. But Democrats were seizing on the issue to score political points anyway, while some Republicans warned against opening a Pandora’s box of recrimination, and a new congressional report suggested widespread involvement in the matter. A day after President Barack […]

Midsize law firms in the Midwest, outside the biggest cities, are hiring lawyers, opening offices and bringing on new associates this fall as they fare better than many larger urban rivals in the face of the recession. Law firm leaders at the firms, with between 100 and 450 lawyers, say their better fortunes are mainly

When a Swedish court ruled last week that the four people behind the Pirate Bay website were to be sentenced to a year in prison each and face a cumulative fine of €2.7 million, the reaction from the entertainment industry was one of glee, and media reports were all of a ridiculous “we’ve turned a

A group of New York-based lawyers and legal scholars has joined other alarmed observers of China in attempting to intercede for Gao Zhisheng, a well-known Chinese human rights lawyer who disappeared after he reportedly was forcibly removed from his home by police on Feb. 4. The Committee to Support Lawyers in China wrote to Minister

President Obama answered the call of the left Tuesday by opening the door for prosecution of the Bush administration lawyers who wrote the so-called “torture memos,” which cleared the way for the CIA to use harsh interrogation methods when questioning suspected terrorists. But that doesn’t mean those attorneys will end up facing prison sentences any

President Obama’s early moves to condemn torture, order the closure of Guantanamo and commit to combat climate change won him accolades from international human rights advocates turned off by the go-it-alone attitude of the Bush administration. Now the world’s lawyers are worried that those goals could languish on the diplomatic back burner as the president

An Iranian American journalist accused of spying for the U.S. was sentenced by an Iranian court Saturday to eight years in prison, a move likely to strain the Obama administration’s recent overtures to improve relations with Tehran. Roxana Saberi, 31, who had reported for the BBC and National Public Radio, had faced espionage charges during

The journey into the CIA’s most extreme interrogation program began in darkness. Blindfolded, hooded and wearing earmuffs, suspected terrorists were shackled and flown to secret interrogation centers. The buildings themselves were quiet, clinical and designed to fill prisoners with dread. Detainees were shaved, stripped and photographed nude. The questioning began mildly, a shackled detainee facing