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Maine lawyers can pay non-expert witnesses, or fact witnesses, for reasonable costs associated with their testimony, the state bar said.

A Palm Beach, Fla., trial court judge who allegedly shirked her official duties for several years is facing an ethics inquiry.

An Ohio personal injury law firm can ethically use a bank loan to advance litigation costs on behalf of a client in a contingency fee matter, the state professional responsibility board said.

A Florida lawyer who filed a lawsuit on behalf of a client against General Motors after being fired and without his knowledge can collect some fees but isn’t entitled to expenses.

A lawyer who didn’t present any mitigating evidence and then let his client do all the talking at his sentencing hearing completely failed to function as an advocate, the Seventh Circuit said.

The “spark of life” legal doctrine allowed jurors to hear testimony meant to humanize George Floyd during the Derek Chauvin trial for murder. Ted Sampsell-Jones, a law professor at Minnesota’s Mitchell Hamline School of Law discusses the doctrine on [Un]Common Law.

Scores for the Multistate Bar Exam ticked up slightly in the February test that remained online in many states, but far fewer people took the exam compared with the previous winter.