A survey of law reviews, by the nonprofit Ms. JD, found that women account for 44 percent of staffers but only 33 percent of editors-in-chief. “There is obviously some lingering glass ceiling when it comes to the highly coveted editor-in-chief position,” said Ms

The 1st Circuit has unanimously ruled that a Massachusetts education agency’s decision to remove curriculum guide materials disputing the existence of an Armenian genocide did not violate the First Amendment. The opinion was written by retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, sitting by designation

A California man known for his anger over left-leaning politics said after a freeway shootout with California Highway Patrol officers that he had been planning an attack on the ACLU and another nonprofit group, police said Tuesday. Byron Williams, a parolee with two bank robbery convictions, wanted to “start a revolution” by killing people at the American Civil Liberties Union and Tides Foundation, Oakland police said in court documents.

While the ACLU and other nonprofit legal groups have been declared exempt from the Florida Bar’s strict proposal for regulating lawyer websites, the state’s largest law firms are starting to band together to protest the restrictions on advertising, largely on First Amendment grounds.

The plaintiffs’ tab in a widely watched state secrets case has arrived; whether it will ever be paid is another matter. Lawyers representing Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation in a suit over illegal wiretapping seek more than $2.6 million in fees, the result of thousands of hours of work over several years