Week News

• Over 60% of 'fast-track justice' defendants never enter plea

• De Niro's company sues ex-employee for $6m for embezzlement and Netflix bingeing

• ‘Patent troll’ has no clear meaning and is a protected statement of opinion, state high court says

• Council ban on protests outside abortion clinic upheld by appeal court

• Justice Department avoids gender pronouns in brief in transgender case

• Afternoon Briefs: Lawyer accused of deducting kickbacks; Greenland purchase was exam hypothetical

• Lawyer complains about treatment by public defenders’ office after client’s punch; see the courtroom video

Month News

• Liberty loses high court challenge to snooper’s charter

• Britain's youngest terrorist's identity to remain secret

• Marcel Berlins, the Guardian's 'brilliant, humane' legal columnist, dies at 77

• Why children born of rape must be recognised as victims

• The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s prison policy: a fantasy built on an invention

• Limit guns in courthouses and train those who use them, ABA House of Delegates urges

Year News

• Oklahoma judicial nominee rated ‘not qualified’ by ABA wins confirmation

• The state of Australia's abortion laws: risk of jail is very real

• Judges who wed couples can’t refuse same-sex unions, ABA ethics opinion says

• What will be the hot careers for the Class of 2019?

• Founder of The Slants talks about the band’s free-speech fight