Finding an entry level legal job after graduating from law school can be a tough gig, as many know from personal experience. So the University of Arizona’s law school has…
A well-known labor and employment law firm has filed suit against Maricopa County, Ariz., seeking damages for claimed defamatory statements made in a letter from county officials terminating its services.
Their onetime boss was absent, but a former deputy Marcopa County attorney and another ex-lawyer from the office were present yesterday as an unusual legal ethics trial began at the…
The U.S. Justice Department and Congress are probing missteps in a case that played a role in the ouster of U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke of Phoenix and Kenneth Melson, the…
In the first settlement of some $125 million in claims made by Maricopa County, Ariz., officials who say they suffered damages because of alleged off-the-rails prosecution and litigation by Sheriff…
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas took an aggressive tack earlier this year when he signaled an intent to sue Arizona ethics investigators who recommended he be disbarred and county…
Errors by the prosecution in pursuing a possible plea deal directly with a represented murder defendant resulted in the dismissal of the Apache County, Ariz., case, reports the Aug 31, 2011 8:50 PM CDT
The top federal prosecutor in Arizona has resigned, effective immediately, and two other officials who oversaw a botched federal investigation of gun-running operation have been reassigned. In the probe, agents…
Four cannabis clubs in Arizona, where voters last year passed a law allowing medical marijuana use, were sued today by the state attorney general, who alleges that the groups’ actions…
A former municipal court judge who resigned after being accused of sexually harassing a female public defender who had recently graduated from law school, as well as other attorneys who…
A new issue has been raised in the aftermath of a hard-fought political battle between the former Maricopa, Ariz., county attorney Andrew Thomas and the county’s board of supervisors.
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