As if the nine private law schools in the state of Massachusetts weren't enough, proponents now want to establish a public one by having the state take over the struggling Southern New England School of Law at North Dartmouth, near New Bedford. Some of the county's elected supervisors voice few misgivings about the widely publicized showdown, saying their constituents want them to be tougher in cracking down on zoning violations . More questions should be raised about a retreat held at Farmington, Pa. earlier this month in which 42 Democratic Senators were lectured on the need to apply ideological litmus tests to judicial nominees, writes Denver Post columnist Al Knight. In fact, they are the only group, liberal or conservative, that regularly sponsors debates throughout the nation's law schools on important public-policy issues. Drawing pictures of weapons.
Techies fear Calif. anti-confidentiality bill.
Trial lawyers have been pushing hard for the enactment of legislation granting them wide leeway to disseminate to anyone they please much of the confidential business information they dig up by compulsory process in lawsuits. White was referring to the 1996 initiative that would have made company directors and high-ranking executives personally vulnerable to shareholder lawsuits. Family law lawyers predict a surge of legal attacks on separation agreements and marriage contracts as a result of the ruling. Write a very clear will. The National Law Journal 's fourth annual roundup of judicial injudiciousness includes vignettes of jurists pursuing personal vendettas, earning outside income in highly irregular ways, jailing people without findings of guilt, and getting in all sorts of trouble on matters of sex.