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President Joe Biden has nominated a former prosecutor and a defense attorney for the top federal prosecutor jobs in Iowa’s Northern and Southern districts, which have been without permanent leaders since 2021.

A Davenport attorney has been nominated by President Joe Biden to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa. David C. Waterman has been an attorney at the law firm of Lane & Waterman L.L.P., in Davenport, since 2020. He was previously an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for […]

Litigators, which would you rather be: a “zealous advocate” for your client? Or one who is “conscientious and ardent” is pursuit of the client’s interests? Most litigators, we suspect,...

Like everyone else in the legal community, this year we read an enormous amount of writing on the impact of artificial intelligence on the practice of law. We noticed how initial...

Jury duty: It is simultaneously a vital, foundational block of our democracy and a common punchline guaranteed to draw sympathetic groans. This makes me wonder, why do we have jury duty? Are there any ways to make service as a juror a painless process?  Most of us would want a trial by a jury of...

Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition. Crow paid for private school for a relative Thomas said he was raising “as a son.” “This is way outside the norm,” said a former White House ethics lawyer. by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski Of ProPublica

Of all our government institutions, the Supreme Court may be the most sacrosanct, the very...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have had over $150,000 worth of private school expenses for his nephew covered by real estate magnate Harlan Crow.

The Supreme Court justice took legal custody of his teenage grandnephew when he was 6.

Crow paid for private school for a relative Thomas said he was raising “as a son.” “This is way outside the norm,” said a former White House ethics lawyer.