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Closing Argument February 10
The AI Lawyer is Here
How Artificial Intelligence is making its way into the legal system.
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Life Inside October 17, 2019
For My Incarcerated Clients, There Is No Winning
“What he really needed, a lawyer couldn’t give him.”
By Peter Borenstein
News August 1, 2019
One Lawyer. Five Years. 3,802 Cases.
In Detroit, court-appointed lawyers for the poor are encouraged to take on large caseloads at the expense of their clients, a new report says.
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Patrick Megaro, an attorney, outside the federal courthouse in Raleigh, N.C., after a ​2017 hearing ​​about his legal fees for representing Leon Brown and Henry McCollum.
News September 26, 2018
Lawyer Accused of Preying on Vulnerable Clients
The North Carolina bar says he fleeced two mentally disabled brothers.
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A sign for legal services in Hollywood, Calif.
News July 18, 2018
Can’t Afford a Lawyer?
Civil representation is too expensive for many, but Washington state has one solution
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Patrick Megaro, an attorney, outside the federal courthouse in Raleigh, N.C., after a ​2017 hearing ​​about his legal fees for representing Leon Brown and Henry McCollum.
News April 20, 2018
A Lawyer Who Helped an Exoneree Blow Through $750,000 Is Under Investigation
The North Carolina State Bar probes Patrick Megaro.
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Henry Lee McCollum, seated, and his half-brother, Leon Brown, were released from prison after DNA evidence exonerated them in the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.
Feature April 7, 2018
The Price of Innocence
Two brothers did 31 years for someone else’s crime. Then things went bad.
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A recreation cage in the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay.
Feature February 28, 2018
Guantánamo, Forever
After nearly a decade in detention, Haroon Gul believed he had a chance at freedom. Then came President Trump.
By Amos Barshad
Detainees at the border patrol station in McAllen, Texas, in 2014. A growing number of courts in the U.S. are providing legal representation to immigrants in deportation proceedings who cannot represent themselves.
News July 5, 2017
One Bit of Good News for Immigrants in Detention
As a federal program grows, more mentally ill immigrants have access to attorneys.
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Bronx Criminal Court on 161st Street in New York City.
Commentary April 17, 2017
Law Partners
A prosecutor on what his wife, a defense attorney, taught him about justice.
Jesse Weinstein
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