1) In Students' Eyes, Look-Alike Lawyers Don't Make the Grade by Adam Liptak addresses Building a Better Legal Profession, a group started by Stanford law students to grade law firms on diversity: gender, race and openly gay status. It also addresses other factors such as billable hours and pro bono participation. BBLP does not include Philadelphia.
2) The New York Times is also running a series of articles on what has happened to those exonerated by DNA evidence after spending many years in prison.
3) A New York criminal case focuses on the importation and use of monkey meat for religious purposes.