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Legal Watchdog Files Bar Complaints Against Justice Dept. Lawyers

31 juillet 2025 à 09:43
The move represented a rare attempt to seek accountability for rank-and-file lawyers who have represented the Trump administration in court.

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Judges across the country have repeatedly called out Justice Department lawyers for violating their orders and even for destroying the bonds of trust that the government has traditionally been afforded in court.

Roy Black, Defense Lawyer for William Kennedy Smith and Epstein, Dies at 80

25 juillet 2025 à 00:01
With a national profile, he represented the notorious and the celebrated, helping to secure an acquittal in the Smith rape case and a lenient plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein.

© Lynne Sladky/Associated Press

Roy Black spoke to the news media outside the Palm Beach County Courthouse in West Palm Beach in 1991 after his client William Kennedy Smith was acquitted of sexual assault charges.

Thomas A. Durkin, Civil Liberties Lawyer for the Reviled, Dies at 78

23 juillet 2025 à 19:44
He relished skewering the U.S. government as he represented unpopular defendants in public corruption and national security cases, like those at Guantánamo.

© Teresa Crawford/Associated Press

Thomas A. Durkin in 2012. “He represented the damned of the earth,” a colleague said.

Big Law Firms Bowed to Trump. A Corps of ‘Little Guys’ Jumped in to Fight Him.

21 juillet 2025 à 17:44
Solo practitioners, former government litigators and small law offices stepped up to help challenge the Trump administration’s agenda in court after the White House sought to punish many big firms.

© James Estrin/The New York Times

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