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N.Y. Law Students May Take Bar Exam Before Graduation

New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman last week announced the creation of a Pro Bono Scholars Program that will allow law students in the Empire State to take the bar exam in February of their third year of law school instead of after graduation. So reports The New York Times.

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Elderly Hit-and-Run Driver Says Diarrhea Made Her Do It

A 92-year old Arizona woman who hit a jogger with her Lincoln Town Car is claiming that she fled the scene to avoid an accident of another sort. So reports the New York’s Daily News.

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Personal Injury Firm Runs ‘Heavy-Metal Masterpiece’ TV Ad

One of the most entertaining and outrageous personal injury law firm advertisements you will ever see ran on Georgia television stations during the Super Bowl. So The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog reports.

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Eighth SAC Capital Employee Convicted for Insider Trading

A federal jury in New York last week convicted former SAC Capital portfolio manager Mathew Martoma of securities fraud and conspiracy for soliciting information about the clinical trial results of an Alzheimer drug owned by a company in which SAC Capital owned significant holdings. So Reuters reports.

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New NYC Law Protects Pregnant Women in the Workplace

To illustrate the need for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a new law that took effect in New York City last week, this New York Times piece tells of the story of a 22-year-old woman who was forced to take leave from the Bronx thrift store where she worked after she asked the employer to accommodate her pregnancy by assigning her tasks that do not require heavy lifting.

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Court: Flashing Headlights to Warn of Speed Trap Likely Protected as Free Speech

A federal court judge is Missouri last week held that several drivers would likely prevail in their free speech lawsuit challenging a state law that makes it illegal to flash your headlights to warn other drivers of a speed trap ahead. So reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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N.J. Tackles Super Bowl-Related Sex Trafficking Surge

New Jersey officials are working with the FBI and law enforcement officials from prior Super Bowl host cities to combat the uptick in sex trafficking in the tri-state area as hundreds of thousands of tourists flood into New York and New Jersey for Super Bowl-related festivities. So reports Fox News.

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Disgraced Former Journalist Denied CA Bar Admission

The California Supreme Court last week denied bar admission to Steven R. Glass, a former journalist who was first found morally unfit to practice law in 2009 because of transgressions he perpetrated when he worked as a writer for the New Republic in the 1990s. So The Daily Caller reports.

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N.H. Judges May be Forced to Tell Jurors They Can Acquit if they Disagree with Law

A bill to was introduced in January in New Hampshire’s House of Representatives to require judges to tell juries in every criminal case that they are free to vote to acquit defendants if they have reasonable doubt of guilt or if they simply don't agree with the underlying law. So reports The Wall Street Journal.

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39k in Attorneys Fees Awarded to Exotic Dancer

A federal judge in Nebraska last week ordered the government to pay a woman the more than $39,000 in attorneys’ fees that she spent fighting to get back $1 million that she had earned as an exotic dancer. So the Lincoln Journal Star reports.

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