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• Duncan School of Law denied accreditation
• Study: Jurors can't distinguish between knowing and reckless conduct
• Attorney attempts to narrow evidence in campaign violations trial
• Not so fast: Judge won't let plaintiffs dismiss case against tobacco ordinance while motion is pending
• Southwestern hopes to transform itself through student housing
• Apple wins one battle in Android wars, as ITC bars importation of infringing HTC phones
• This prize goes to the best law-related short story
• Verbal notice to clerk not sufficient to vacate transfer order, Federal Circuit rules
• The 2011 Law Firm Billing Survey
• A lawyer's Christmas story
• THE PRACTICE: Courts split on issue over individual Chapter 11 cases
• OPINION: Bad words?
• OPINION: Gingrich would have ideology trump authority
• ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY: A SPECIAL REPORT: Plaintiffs have their own duty to preserve
• LEGAL TIMES 150
• ANTITRUST: DOJ's suit against AT&T: rhetoric v. reality

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Duncan School of Law denied accreditation	Top
The ABA's Council of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted not to approve the Knoxville, Tenn.-school's accreditation application during its Dec. 2-3 meeting and informed the school on Dec. 20, according to a council memorandum.
Study: Jurors can't distinguish between knowing and reckless conduct	Top
Researchers conducted a series of tests designed to gauge how well jurors identified those mental states and assigned punishment under varying degrees of exposure to the definitions of the Model Penal Code. The results were surprising.
Attorney attempts to narrow evidence in campaign violations trial	Top
Trial attorney Pierce O'Donnell, whose plea agreement on campaign finance violations unraveled last month, has moved to whittle down the evidence that federal prosecutors can introduce during his impending trial and has indicated he plans to blame much of his behavior on his bipolar disorder.
Not so fast: Judge won't let plaintiffs dismiss case against tobacco ordinance while motion is pending	Top
A Boston federal judge has denied the bid of two plaintiffs to walk away from their case against the city of Worcester, Mass., over a tobacco control ordinance. He did so because the defendants had already moved for summary judgment in the case.
Southwestern hopes to transform itself through student housing	Top
Southwestern Law School broke ground this month on the first on-campus housing project in the school's 100-year history. Coinciding with the project, Southwestern named James Camp, a former partner at McKenna, Long & Aldridge in Los Angeles, as its first assistant dean for property administration and development.
Apple wins one battle in Android wars, as ITC bars importation of infringing HTC phones	Top
The International Trade Commission handed Apple Inc. a win on Monday, finding that Android phones made by HTC Corp. infringe one of Apple's patents. The ITC commissioners ruled that all infringing HTC phones will be barred from being imported to the United States starting in April.
This prize goes to the best law-related short story	Top
A year after the American Bar Association paired with the University of Alabama School of Law to launch its Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, Southwestern Law School and the Association of American Law Schools' Journal of Legal Education have announced a contest for short works of fiction related to law school or the practice of law.
Verbal notice to clerk not sufficient to vacate transfer order, Federal Circuit rules	Top
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that a party's verbal notice to the court clerk's office of a settlement of a patent infringement case was not sufficient to support withdrawal of an order directing transfer of the case. But the court also ruled that the district court did not have to transfer the dismissed complaint.
The 2011 Law Firm Billing Survey	Top
It appears that modest annual billing rate increases are here to stay. For the third year in a row, law firms showed restraint with hourly rate increases, inching up at a rate only slightly higher than inflation in many cases.
A lawyer's Christmas story	Top
We spend most of our time focused on our education and our careers, but real meaning and purpose is rooted in relationships. By restoring relationships that have been broken, you can create a foundation from which to realize a greater potential. But don't wait — opportunities that exist today may be gone tomorrow.
THE PRACTICE: Courts split on issue over individual Chapter 11 cases	Top
If absolute-priority rule applies, there's a big risk that all prebankruptcy property may need to be pledged to creditors.
OPINION: Bad words?	Top
In 'fleeting expletives' case, Court should recognize changed doctrine, culture.
OPINION: Gingrich would have ideology trump authority	Top
Such attacks are hardly ever motivated by incompetence of the branch whose power is being undermined.
ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY: A SPECIAL REPORT: Plaintiffs have their own duty to preserve	Top
Their attorneys must see that they obey it, especially since the client has a vested interest in the dispute.
LEGAL TIMES 150	Top
The headcount among Washington firms continued to decline, but not as sharply as it did last year — the biggest recorded drop in 25 years. According to the Legal Times 150, our annual ranking of the Washington area's largest law offices, the number of attorneys employed at Washington firms decreased by 343 — a little more than 2.2 percent of the total market of 14,945 attorneys.
ANTITRUST: DOJ's suit against AT&T: rhetoric v. reality	Top
From a traditional antitrust analysis, it would be hard to see how the government can lose this one in court.

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