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PHILADELPHIA — A criminal defense lawyer was arrested after a sheriff's deputy found him naked with a 14-year-old girl in a courthouse conference room, authorities said Tuesday. Larry Charles, 49, has been charged with solicitation, attempted statutory sexual assault and related counts, said Lt. Dan Bagnell of the police department's Special Victims Unit. A sheriff's deputy making his rounds in the Criminal Justice Center on Monday afternoon looked into a lawyers' conference room on the third floor and discovered Charles and the girl, Bagnell said. Click here for more Crime news. "He had asked for sex. But there was no...

In sweeping legal reform, increasingly litigious Japan expecting flood of new lawyers... In past years, 25-year-old law school graduate Hiroyuki Ichikawa would have been facing an almost impossible task : a bar exam with a 97 percent failure rate. Now, his chances are closer to 50-50. In the most sweeping reform of Japan's legal system since World War II, the doors are opening wide for a flood of new lawyers, prosecutors and judges to handle criminal and civil cases in an increasingly litigious society. Experts say the reforms are long overdue and underscore a big shift in social attitudes that...

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