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The Chief Justice Chides Lawyers and Judges
We start the new year with a review of Chief Justice Roberts’ 2015 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, which is the subject of a December 31, 2015 article in The Washington Post, titled Roberts urges lawyers, judges to help improve … Continue reading
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Tagged Attorneys, Chief Justice Roberts, Client-Side Manner, Judges, Legal, Legal Consumer, Legal Practices, The Washington Post
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What Happens To Lawyers When They Miss Death Row Deadlines? Apparently Nothing
On November 16, 2014, The Washington Post ran an article written by Ken Armstrong for The Marshall Project titled When Lawyers Stumble, Only Their Clients Fall, about when court-appointed lawyers miss deadlines for filing death-penalty habeas corpus appeals. Federal habeas corpus appeals typically occur after … Continue reading
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Tagged Attorney Misconduct, Death Row, Eric Holder, Justice, Ken Armstrong, Lawyers, Legal, The Marshall Project, The Washington Post
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