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Exoneration Project Presents New Evidence in Attempt to Reverse Murder Conviction
December 8, 2011

A parade of witnesses who testified against Jamie Snow at his 2001 murder trial have recanted, creating a pool of new evidence that could reverse Snow’s murder conviction, an attorney for the former Bloomington man told the 4th District Appellate court Wednesday.

Siegler on How Blagojevich is Getting Off Easy
December 4, 2011

Rod Blagojevich is a lucky man. He is lucky that the U.S. attorney's office is asking U.S. District Judge James Zagel to send him to prison for only 15 to 20 years.

Chicago Daily Law Bulletin on New Abrams Environmental Law Clinic
December 2, 2011

The University of Chicago Law School will launch its new Abrams Environmental Law Clinic in January.

It will be led by the former director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Mark Templeton, 42, said dean...

Mark N. Templeton to Direct New Abrams Environmental Law Clinic
November 30, 2011

Dean Michael H. Schill is pleased to announce that Mark N. Templeton will join the Law School as an assistant clinical professor to direct the Law School’s new Abrams Environmental Law Clinic.

Exoneration Project Wins New Trial for Man Convicted of Murder
November 21, 2011

Students in the University of Chicago Law School’s Exoneration Project have helped a man convicted in a 1994 Chicago murder win a new trial based on DNA evidence that links the slaying to another man.

Students in Exoneration Project Help Free Man Wrongly Convicted of Murder
November 4, 2011

For the second time this year, the hard work of University of Chicago Law School students in the Exoneration Project has successfully...

David Zarfes Discusses Legal Implications of Breaking a Confidentiality Agreement
November 3, 2011

The woman who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment now wants to speak up, according to her lawyer, Joel P.

Chicago Daily Law Bulletin: Lab teaches real world skills
October 25, 2011

David Zarfes still remembers the look on the faces of his students when he used legal terms like "indemnity" and "subrogation" during one of his transactional courses a few years ago.

They appeared "confounded," said Zarfes, the...

Futterman Questions Police Recording Ban, Posner Disagrees
September 28, 2011

Even if he wanted to, Chicago attorney Craig Benson Futterman said he likely could not comply with an Illinois law that allows citizens to photograph or videotape police officers but bars them from recording the officers’ words.

“I’m not even sure how to turn off the audio on my...

Futterman Comments on Sentencing of Corrupt Chicago Cop
September 9, 2011

Jerome Finnigan, who led a gang of corrupt Chicago cops, was sentenced Thursday for plotting to kill another Chicago police officer.