Despite taking heat from Congress about bank failures and fraudulent investors such as Bernard Madoff and R. Allen Stanford, Marisa McQuilken reports Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers are still upbeat.
Joe Palazzolo reports more than a dozen former private practice lawyers in the Justice Department could be facing potential conflicts of interests as the agency begins its review of about 245 men imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay.
Mike Scarcella reports, in 2001, Peter Atherton was dismissed from a D.C. Superior Court grand jury. Atherton is alleging civil rights violations and jury tampering and now, with the help of a team from Duke University Law School, he is trying to hold the prosecutor and court official responsible for his dismissal liable for damages.
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