Lawyer groups want to help but a jigsaw puzzle of lawyer money, agencies and a plethora of makeover plans may do more harm than good to Haiti’s dead justice system.

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To attract clients, Chicago family law attorney Corri Fetman bares it all.

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Just about now, but for the economic might of the United States of America, the last funeral bell tolls of the common law would be fading.

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Dinosaurs of law practice unite! Your day of judgment is coming! Vive l'internet libre!

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Conduct unbecoming is a catch-all prohibition in the professional conduct handbooks of almost all law societies and bar associations. Because it eludes clear definition, it ever hovers over lawyers - even when they are not at the office - like a sword of Damocles.

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Judge Yerger's advice to young lawyers has fermented well.

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Only with nausea can one fathom that Nizar Rayan was a professor of law.

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For the voyeurs of everyday life, there is only the courthouse.

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The PR tanks are rolling out in British Columbia as lawyers take up arms against a fundamental rule change proposal suggested not just by an elected Attorney General but in the back drop, in black gown and red sash, the sheepish grins of superior court judges.

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Trial, for the layperson (read "non-lawyer") is a source of tremendous stress and nervousness. You rarely see standing-room only line-ups at the public galleries of the Courthouse. But for lawyers, they are masochistic labours of love; a chunk of time where the stress is through the roof but so, too, is the intensity.

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Envelope please! (Drum roll.) The award for pro bono works goes to ... John Doe, Esquire and Q.C. ..... because he has the highest rates to his paying clients and he can afford to charade as a poverty avenger!

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Jonathan Edington, attorney, spited his compass, lost his bearings and killed a man, leaving a whole profession disheartened.

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A DC attorney gets his pants on back-ass backwards and gets stuck with costs.

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