In a case that’s likely to be watched closely by criminals from drug-dealers to white-collar embezzlers—and the unpaid lawyers representing them—the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the plight of a criminally-indicted woman arguing that she is constitutionally entitled to a pretrial hearing before the government can freeze her assets.

 

As the gap between male and female lawyers’ salaries continues to widen, the American Bar Association has created a set of tools to help state and local bar associations hold conferences on gender-pay equality.

The U.S. Supreme Court this week held that a U.S. copyright holder’s rights expire when his copyrighted work is sold overseas legally, the LA Times reported.