Legal Research

Darrow Goes Digital
New (to me) is the Clarence Darrow Digital Collection of the University of Minnesota Law Library. The Library explains:The University of Minnesota Law Library is pleased to provide access to an extensive body of information about the great American jurist Clarence Darrow...

Clarence Darrow Digital Collection
When I'm not prowling the web for something new and helpful to law students, I spend a lot of time around law librarians, some of my favorite humans.  In recognition of his work on a wonderful new resource, the Clarence Darrow Digital Collection, law librarian Michael J...

Darrow on Freedom: "You can be free only if I am free"
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. —Clarence Darrow, Closing argument in "Communist Trial," People v...

Did Clarence Darrow distract a jury with a long ash
Years ago, I heard a story that a lawyer -- posttibly Clarence Darrow -- distracted a jury from the opponent's argument, impressed that Darrow could create a very long ash with his cigarette or cigar, in the days that smoking was allowed in courtrooms...

Isn't The Clarence Darrow Digital Collection Ineligible for the 2012 Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award
"The Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award recognizes a significant contribution to legal bibliographical literature. The work may be a book, pamphlet, periodical contribution or publication in some other form...

Reviewed: books on Clarence Darrow, Guantanamo, and the nation after King's assassination
THE LAST TRIALS OF CLARENCE DARROW by Donald McRae is reviewed in the Washington Post. According to Jonathan Yardley, often McRae's "narrative moves along nicely," but in light of recent works highlighting Darrow's role in important cases, he strains "mightily (and for the most part unsuccessfully) to put a new twist on Darrow's story...

Bankruptcy Law
A complete prime (pre-2005)

Collection Agencies and Creditors
How to deal and stop the harassment

UAB Health System and Franklin Collection Service
allegedly violated the RICO Act in collection practices on delinquent patient accounts.

Apple Inc.
allegedly maintained an illegal monopoly on the digital music market.

imbee Data Collection
Industrious Kid, Inc. pays $130,000 civil penalty for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

Mel Harris and Associates Debt Collection
Face Class Action for Alleged "Sewer Service" Practices