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Lawyer groups organize against the proposal to investigate lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees.       .  .  .  .  .       Point of Law responds to our posting, by Richard Painter, about the Sestak affair.       .  .  .  .  .       The client wasn't really dead after all, and is back in jail.  (I'm trying to nail down the lawyer's role in all this.  If it was an innocent misrepresentation, it sure is embarrassing.)       .  .  .  .  .       Attorneys liens have priority over medical liens, at least in California.  (h/t: California Attorney's Fees Blog)  (Personally, I find that conclusion to be inherent in the principles of ordered liberty, but I'm glad the court agreed.)       .  .  .  .  .       Disbarred lawyer popped for $500,000 malpractice verdict.       .  .  .  .  .       An Australian op-ed is skeptical about calls for preserving the independence of the bar and says lawyers and judges want to be a "law unto themselves."       .  .  .  .  .       "Today solicitors in  Scotland will vote to revise their formal policy on the introduction of alternative business structures (ABSs) for law firms."

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