San Jose, Calif. criminal defense lawyer Jamie Harley wiped away tears as a jury convicted her Tuesday of laundering money for a client who trafficked in stolen computer equipment.
Ruling from the bench in a Los Angeles case, an appellate judge today voided a $2.3 million jury verdict and threw out a pesticide-exposure case against Dole Food Co., due…
In a lawsuit likely to resonate with other women who travel alone on business, a well-known sportscaster for ESPN sued several hotel chains today in Illinois state court over video…
Updated: Lindsay Lohan has found another lawyer in the nick of time—she’s scheduled to turn herself in Tuesday—to appeal her 90-day sentence for probation violation.
A 42-year-old California lawyer has agreed to plead no contest to one of three felonies he faced after allegedly filing a civil suit against a witness in a stalking case…
When Judith Sheindlin agreed in 1993 to allow a reporter for the Los Angeles Times to sit quietly in the back of the New York courtroom in which she worked…
A California lawyer has been accused of smuggling—perhaps unknowingly—a witness hit list from a jailed client. It allegedly contained highlighted names that would have understood by the recipient to be…
The judge who sentenced Lindsay Lohan to 90 days in jail for violating probation attended Southwestern Law School, but she didn’t choose it for love of…
A controversial use of DNA evidence that is expressly permitted by statute in only two states has identified a suspect in at least 10 so-called “Grim Sleeper’ killings over the…
Actress Lindsay Lohan is denying that an obscene message on her fingernails was intended for the judge who sentenced her on Tuesday to 90 days in jail.
Gregory Evans is leaving a partnership at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy to start a new high-stakes litigation law firm that disdains the BigLaw “profit model.”
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