In order to become a lawyer you are required to have a four year degree, three years of law school, and you must pass the written bar examination. During your first year you will have courses in cons...
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Litigation: We wondered what trial lawyers would gun for next after smoking the tobacco industry. Fast-food chains? Soft-drink bottlers? Gun makers? How about companies that contribute to ... globa...
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Lawyers for hundreds of people who sued Merck & Co. over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx are challenging a key provision of a proposed $4.85 billion settlement that requires lawyers to advise al...
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Zimbabwe's government is intimidating, arresting and beating lawyers in an attempt to destroy the beleaguered political opposition's last line of defense, one of the country's leading attorneys sai...
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A man charged with fatally shooting four people in a 2005 rampage that began inside a courthouse where he was being tried for rape was suffering a "delusional compulsion" when he committed the kill...
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Thousands of black-suited lawyers facing police batons and tear gas to protest the declaration of emergency rule have become Pakistan's political conscience.Enraged by President Pervez Musharraf's ...
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Lawyers for the widow of former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko said they filed papers with the European Court of Human Rights Thursday, alleging Russia's complicity in his poisonin...
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A Chinese lawyer convicted of subversion has again been detained after writing to U.S. lawmakers asking them to help expose what he called an "ongoing human rights disaster in China," an activist f...
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There’s a new player in the ongoing fight between the Independence Party of New York City and their own state party organization: the National Action Network.
A lawyer for NAN, which is run ...
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Requirements for Becoming a Lawyer
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