MSNBC – March 22, 2012
“Dictation” is one of the features of the new iPad, and it can be used to dictate notes, emails, text messages. But new iPad owners may want to use it sparingly …

A tree well is the hole or depression that forms around the base of a tree. Evergreen trees (fir, hemlock, etc) can have large, deep tree wells that form when low hanging branches prohibit snow …

To see a new iPad is to want a new iPad — that new screen is so much better — and that’s why thousands of people around the world lined up outside Apple stores Friday …

By Bob Sullivan – MSNBC News
When the expression “red tape” was invented, they had phrases like this in mind: “Request to Inspect or Receive Copies of SF 278/OGE Form 278 Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial …

The Telegraph – By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent
Details of every phone call and text message, email traffic and websites visited online are to be stored in a series of vast databases under new Government …

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MSNBC News / Reuters – updated 2/9/2012 2:07:17 PM ET
LONDON — Millions of healthy people – including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes – may be wrongly labeled mentally ill by …

The Washington Post – By Lonnae O’Neal Parker, Tuesday, January 31, 6:39 PM
As director of the criminal justice unit at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Swarns, 43, is one of the most prominent capital-defense lawyers …

By Suzanne Kantra – Techlicious – MSNBC.COM
If you’re holding back on upgrading to a new cell phone, camera or laptop because of cost, you may be surprised how much your old device will bring at …

1-9-2012
SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments.
Denise Brown, 60, of Fair Oaks, has been appointed director of the California Department of Consumer Affairs. Brown was an advisor to the executive …

12-28-2011
SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments.
Kristoffer Applegate, 34, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief of legislative affairs for adult operations at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Applegate …

MSNBC – By Linda Dahlstrom
If you think you’ve found the perfect gift for Grandma, and it happens to be a ShoulderFlex massager, buy her something else quick. It turns out to be a device that …

The Clarion Ledger – by Jimmie E. Gates – December 16, 2011
Jackson criminal defense attorney Sam Wilkins, who practiced for 45 years, has died. Wilkins, 74, was found dead Friday morning at his home….[For full …

To facilitate a lawyer’s ability to readily identify and address legal ethics issues, the State Bar has published an e-Reader version of the Rules of Professional Conduct and the State Bar Act. The e-Reader version …

The general Ethics Information page at the State Bar website has added a new area dedicated to Ethics and Technology – a collection of resources that address professional responsibility issues raised by the use of …

“Scenes of a Crime” explores a nearly 10-hour interrogation that culminates in a disputed confession, and an intense, high-profile child murder trial in New York state.
“SCENES OF A CRIME” investigates police interrogation and false
confession in …

Karen Sloan - The National Law Journal- September 22, 2011
(Indio, CA) A group of attorneys in Indio, Calif. are moving forward with plans to open a new law school next September.
The California Desert Trial Academy College …

by Carlos Alcala – The Sacramento Bee
David A. Brooks’ “Foresthill” bears a subtitle calling it a “bedtime reader,” but it doesn’t have the usual assortment of fairies, princes and ogres.
Its stories are instead populated by …