Gordon Cooney and Michael Banks are featured as AmLaw's "Litigators of the Week" for the latest development in their representation of John Thompson, which began in 1988.

High-powered lawyering—and a well-timed bit of luck—add up to an eleventh-hour reprieve for an inmate on Louisiana's death row.

When two Philadelphia lawyers took the case of a man on death row, they had one goal: to save his life. After years of work, they discovered they'd been fighting the wrong battle all along.