A pleasing personality and a sympathetic judge helped former GlaxoSmithKline in-house counsel Lauren Stevens win acquittal on all six counts during a federal obstruction trial last month.
A former North Carolina real estate closing attorney who had faced up to 25 years in prison after being convicted in a $15 million mortgage fraud case two years ago…
Did longtime friends of trial attorney John Edwards give him money to help cover up an extramarital affair so he could keep it secret from his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth? Or…
Hired in 2005 to work as a bookkeeper for a Virginia-based personal injury law firm, Diana Farmer-Forston allegedly embezzled $567,000 of Bennett and Zydron’s funds over the past four years.
Updated: Relying on unidentified sources, major news organizations are reporting that the U.S. Department of Justice has approved the pursuit of a possible criminal indictment against former presidential candidate John…
Two years after the FBI raided his home, a now-disbarred Baltimore attorney has been charged with downloading images of children involved in “explicit” activity from a website controlled by an…
A federal appeals panel made up of three Democratic appointees appears inclined to agree with the government’s defense of President Obama’s health care law.
Saying that the government couldn’t prove its case, a federal judge in Greenbelt, Md., has dismissed midway through trial an obstruction prosecution against a former in-house lawyer for GlaxoSmithKline.
A Maryland lawyer who was accused of helping drug traffickers launder their illegal profits and using tens of thousands of dollars in proceeds for real estate investments has taken a…
A federal appeals court has directed a lower court to consider DNA evidence and witness statements in an appeal by the Army doctor convicted of murdering his wife and two…
Virginia Tech may appeal a $55,000 federal fine it received regarding the school’s response time to a 2007 mass shooting, which resulted in the death of 32 people, the Apr 15, 2011 5:57 PM CDT
A 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has upheld a $4 million jury verdict awarded to a South Carolina real estate broker who created the concept for the A&E…
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