Lawyers, like kids, say the darndest things. During one of our TBA House of Delegates meetings, one of the House members explained to me that country lawyers call city lawyers like me, "tall building lawyers," meaning of course, that we practice law in tall buildings and implying, quite accurately, that we tall-building lawyers have gaps the size of...

Lauren Brittain Patten and Emily B. Warth have joined the Nashville law firm of Walker, Tipps...

The Illinois governor's alleged offer to sell President Obama's former Senate seat to the highest bidder has outraged citizens all over the country. We would hope such a scandal is a rare event.

Actually it is not. During the period of reconstruction following the Civil War the buying and selling of political offices was rampant in the South. One...

Long-time readers of this silly column (and you know who you are) know how I feel about how we lawyers should dress. I believe that every problem now faced by the American legal profession " tort reform, the decline in civility, Alberto Gonzales " has been caused by the advent of "casual day" at law firms throughout our once well-dressed nation.

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By Harold Schechter | Ballantine Books | $27.95 | 494 pages | 2007

You and I know about the evidence principle that other crimes are inadmissible in an accused's trial for the indicted crime. It is ensconced in Rule 404(b).

A famous case applying that principle is People v. Molineux, 61 N.E. 286 (N.Y. 1901). You...