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We have a mildly embarrassing love for British tabloids because they publish the world’s best headlines, and they consistently report on the hijinx of William’s and Harry’s nightclub impresario pal, Guy Pelly. So today we pretend to be The Daily Mail with our coverage of a tax evasion conviction appeal in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals from the District’s own “nightclub impresario” Abdul Karim Khanu. Khanu was convicted in 2009 on 22 tax-evasion-related counts stemming from DC Live and Platinum, two D....

Being ‘in the zone’ is a good thing for basketball players. It means they are in a Michael Jordan-like zone where every shot seems to go in the basket. For students at for-profit law schools, not so much. It means their law schools are failing education department standards or are “in the zone” for failure. According to a new report from the U.S. Department of Education, virtually every for-profit law school in the country has failed debt-to-earnings ratios or is “in the zone” for failure....

Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has reportedly hired renowned New York defense lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman, who notably got John Gotti off. In addition to Gotti’s champion, El Chapo has hired a whole team of “high powered,” and likely high-priced, defense attorneys. Previously, El Chapo, an international drug kingpin, was represented by the public defender’s office. Prior to the announcement of the new counsel, who are still yet to appear in court, El Chapo’s public defender filed a motion to dismiss based upon alleged misrepresentations made to Mexican authorities....

It reads like a scene from an old movie, a la Sweet Smell of Success in 1957: “I love this dirty town,” says J.J. Hunsacker, a syndicated columinist played by Burt Lancaster. He wants to break up a romance between his younger sister and a jazz musician. Sid Falco, an unprincipled press agent portrayed by Tony Curtis, is the man to do it. “The cat’s in the bag and the bag’s in the river,” Falco promises....

US News Rankings Czar: Our Methods Don’t Affect Law School Diversity. Does emphasis on LSAT and GPA undermine law school diversity? Court refuses Husson law school request, again. No Bar exam for these future law grads. CUNY Spends $155M for New Law School Home, Spurring Outcry. Queens cost of living, 101. Ex-law school dean acted unethically at best. A case of misplaced title entitlement? Summer Associate Offers Plummet, Hitting 17-Year Low....

Theft is exhausting. Just ask Timothy Zacharie, who, after a long night of breaking into eight different cars and pilfering everything from credit cards and IDs to cash and gift cards, finally succumbed to the sweet peace of sleep in the eighth and final car, only to be roused by sheriff’s deputies and hauled off to jail. We guess it’s true what they say: there is no rest for the wicked....

There are plenty of business owners who dislike dealing with unions, but bigwigs are limited in what actions they can take to dissolve their employees’ unions. For example: Cornering staff members and asking them to sign a union decertification petition? Not okay. The paper was actually a union decertification petition. In the following weeks, Good-Nite management approached various staff about signing the petition. On September 14, 2005, Good-Nite withdrew recognition of the Union based on petitions signed by 13 of the 24 unit employees stating that they no longer wished to be represented by the Union....

In a case brought by the Health and Human Services Agency to remove defendant’s one-year-old son on the basis of her drug use, trial court’s jurisdictional and dispositional orders are affirmed, but the matter is remanded to the juvenile court to vacate its finding that ICWA does not apply and to instruct the agency to complete ICWA inquiry and notice. Read In re Damian C., No. D054918 Filed October 8, 2009...

The criminal justice system is far from perfect. Sometimes mistakes get made due to accidents caused by flaws in the system. Fortunately for Richard Jones, the miscarriage of justice he suffered has been corrected; unfortunately, it took nearly 20 years to happen. Thanks to the Innocence Project and another criminal’s lack of luck, Ricky Amos, Mr. Jones was confronted one day, while in custody, by a friend who claimed Mr. Jones snubbed him in the cafeteria....

Graduation ceremonies are happening across the country. But graduating law students don’t get to revel in the same way as other graduates, at least not until after the bar exam, which is usually over two months after commencement. Sure, earning a JD is a big deal, but getting licensed as an attorney is, arguably, more important. And while most law grads will take a week or two off before getting started on bar prep, that decision may be one to carefully consider....

Jose Barrera was arrested for smoking pot in a McDonald’s drive-thru lane in Illinois. Maybe Barrera had a case of the munchies, or maybe he just wanted to preemptively buy some snacks when he did have some cravings, but whatever the case - he really should have looked in the rear-view mirror. As it turns out, he had lit up at the McDonald’s drive-thru without noticing that the car right behind him was a police car, reports CBS News....

A heated fight over a (possibly spicy) meatball led to one Maryland man allegedly stabbing the other – mamma mia! On Thursday, the assault suspect, 31, reportedly stabbed his coworker, 36, because he believed his colleague had eaten a meatball from the assailant’s lunch. It is unclear if this meatball was from a Subway sandwich or even something homemade, but The Baltimore Sun reports that the alleged meatball menace “fled the scene” shortly thereafter....

Sailors have their own language – haul the jib, ease the main, starboard side, coming about! All that just to say you’re turning around. It gets even more complicated when you’re in the Navy. That explains in part what happened when the Navy reversed a rape conviction against a sailor due to “unlawful command influence.” It means the Navy’s top attorney wrongly meddled in the case. Judge Advocate General In United States v....

So you want to go to law school. Congrats! Studying to be a lawyer takes courage, commitment, and, of course, plenty of preparation. That’s where we come in. Once you’re in law school, you’ll be drowning in reading – and not always the most thrilling reading. Right now, though, you should have plenty of time to dive into some useful, even pleasurable, books. Here’s a list of what to read, adapted from FindLaw’s great Law Students section and with a few of our own recommendations thrown in....

As you may have heard, the annual Raiders-49ers game has been canceled. Dubbed the “Battle of the Bay,” the pre-season “friendly” is supposed to pit the Oakland Raiders against the San Francisco 49ers in a cross-bay showdown. Unfortunately, the games are almost always marred by violence. The most recent “Battle of the Bay” game at the start of the 2011 season was no different. The game took place at Candlestick Park in San Francisco....

An Ohio woman who sprayed her own breast milk on police officers won’t be facing a prison sentence. Stephanie Robinette, a former school teacher, will instead be forced to pay a $200 fine plus court costs. She was also sentenced to 2 years in probation. The breast-milk spraying incident came out of a dispute she had with her husband in late June at the Bridgewater Banquet & Conference center, reports WBNS-TV....

Think that being a litigator means you have to be a stressed-out, ulcer-ridden, hard-ass shark? Think again. You can certainly follow that stereotype, or you can have success as a litigator while still keeping it Zen. Don’t believe us? Just check out this trial lawyer who operates a yoga studio alongside his practice. So, who is this yoga master slash trial lawyer? Patrick Palace, an attorney who handles workers comp, personal injury, and civil rights cases just outside of Tacoma, Washington....

In a few short weeks, you’ll be done with your first 1L final exams. For some of you, it was easy – you got an open-book, take-home final and were then told you had a week to complete it and turn it in. For others, you had to actually go into a classroom, turn on ExamSoft, and write for three hours straight. Any way you slice it, you’ll soon be done with your first semester....

If you’re in the middle of prepping for the February bar exam, you’re just a couple weeks away now. And at this point, hopefully, you have a firm grasp on just about everything and it’s all about fine tuning and practice. Though, you may also be incredibly far behind and panicking. And frankly, that’s okay too. You just don’t want to neglect some of the critical planning steps. There’s still time to study more, but you may want to think about focusing your studying efforts over the last two weeks, in addition to developing your sleep schedule, and making sure you have your exam day(s) plan....

The delight of many law school hopefuls is working on law school applications while friends and family are busy having actual winter and holiday fun. Don’t let application blues set in. To help you finish your law school applications over winter break, check out these five tips: You may think that you have time to take one more LSAT in February before firing off applications that are due at the beginning of March....