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Reuters to Become IRS’ Research Partner

Thompson Reuters will assist the Internal Revenue Service in its research of tax laws, and relevant statutes, codes, and treatises, for policy purposes.

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Top Paid First-Year Associates Earn $160K

The highest paid first-year associates at U.S. law firms with more than 700 attorneys are earning an average of $160,000 -- the same amount the highest paid new lawyers were making in 2009. So reports Bloomberg.

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Criminal Exonerations on the Upswing

In 2013, there were 87 known criminal exonerations, the most ever, and the increase isn’t owed to the use of DNA evidence to clear suspects. So reports the ABA Journal.

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Adverb Use: The Legal Writer’s Cop Out?

Adverbs may be an unpopular part of speech with best-selling authors like Stephen King, but they’re beloved by members of the legal profession. So reports The Wall Street Journal.

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LGBT Advocate Pleads Guilty To Domestic Violence

The transgender rights advocate Dana McCallum pleaded guilty to inflicting corporal injury on a spouse as part of a deal to resolve charges that she raped her wife. So reports the San Francisco Gate.

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Mistake 911 Call Leads Cops to Meth Cooks

An accidental call to 911 led Florida police to an active meth lab in Deltona. So reports the Sunshine State’s Fox 13 News.

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Owner of Killer Pit Bulls Sent to Jail for 15 Years

A Los Angeles court handed down a rare second-degree murder conviction in a dog-mauling case to a man who repeatedly ignored complaints about his dangerous pit bulls. So reports the Associated Press.

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3 Ways For Mid-Sized Firms to Save Their Practices

Mid-sized law firms can limit the extent to which they are negatively affected by the uptick in the amount of legal work that companies are handling in house. So reports Forbes.

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White Women Sue After Having Black Baby Via Artificial Insemination

A same-sex couple is suing the sperm bank they used to conceive their daughter for mistakenly giving them sperm belonging to a black man instead of the white donor they had selected. So reports the Associated Press.

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Legal-Support Start-Up Gains Ground

The legal case management platform Clio is becoming the service provider of choice for firms of all sizes. So reports Above the Law.

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