Jonna Spilbor, an attorney and legal analyst on "Kelly’s Court", airing daily on the Fox News Channel, host of a call-in radio show Thursdays on WPDH FM, and a frequent guest commentator on MSNBC, Court-TV and other television news networks, where she has covered many of the nation's high-profile criminal...

Effective mentoring and good lawyering: nearly always the latter follows the first. The passing of knowledge to new generations is why phrases like "standing on the backs of giants" exists, as Gregory Gallopoulos so aptly describes in his article, "How Holistic Mentoring Benefits Lawyers". He says that holistic mentoring is...

Centre for Court Innovation leaders Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox published an article in the July 23 issue of The Guardian, about The Red Hook Community Justice Centre, an experimental program sponsored by the New York court system and spearheaded by the CCI think tank leaders. The article discusses the...

Miller-McCune.com, the online community of the Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy, which harnesses current academic research with real-time reporting to address pressing social concerns, addresses the success of problem-solving courts in its long article entitled "Succor. Succor in the Court. There’s a problem with problem-solving courts: Taxpayers...

An impassioned article on truth and reconciliation in Nigeria's River State area, where violence, attributable to social corrosion, is rampant, writer Emmanuel Onwubiko discusses the Justice Kayode Eso-led Truth and Reconciliation Commission in light of philosophies governing our times. Read more at the Leadership Nigeria site below. Tracing the causes...

In Ashburton, New Zealand, a remarkable initiative called the Restorative Garden is blossoming. This progressive project mandates non-violent juvenile offenders to construct a community garden as part of their sentence. The yield from the garden is then either donated to the community food bank or retailed at the local Farmer's...

Former California State Bar President, Jeff Bleich (2007-2008), discusses lack of access to adequate legal representation for much of America's working class. Citing economic circumstance as the chief cause of unrepresented litigants, Mr. Bleich concludes the legal profession is not meeting the needs of a substantial portion of the public....

Circle sentencing is the NSW approach to what is generally called 'indigenous courts' which operates in most (except Tasmania) Australian jurisdictions. The idea is to bring a level of cultural awareness and significance to the traditional criminal justice system, and generally involves using Aboriginal elders as advisors in the sentencing...

Most of us experience a steady stream of ideas, concerns and preoccupations—to-do lists, bills and reams of information to digest and act on. As lawyers, we tend to consider the mind a great ally. After all, it churns out all the strategies and arguments that build our businesses and boost...

Almost everyone has a home office of some kind these days. Does that mean you're virtual? What does being virtual really entail? Can I untether myself from the office? If I do, can I still be effective? Can I manage my law practice remotely? What about connecting with the main...

The only way my “career” in law makes any sense is if I view it from the perspective of it having followed a path designed by someone other than the “I” that looks back at me when I look in the mirror. And as it turns out, the purpose of...