Despite a trend toward recognizing limited animal rights on the estate planning front, a Michigan appeals court has taken a traditional view of the law concerning a man convicted of…
A disbarred Austin, Texas, lawyer who was accused of living in the home of a client who died and driving the car of another has been sentenced to 15 years…
Fearing that Saddam Hussein would not receive a death sentence at his trial, Iraq’s prime minister forced one of five judges presiding in his case to resign only days before…
Lawyers for a convicted Texas murderer who narrowly escaped execution earlier this month have filed a habeas corpus petition in the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
The Maryland Office of Public Defender has warned state judges that starting next week it will no longer pay private lawyers to represent defendants in conflict-of-interest cases.
Former McAfee general counsel Kent Roberts gave company executives a list of possible actions they could take against him for a date change on his stock options grant.
Rescuing two young girls from a Mexico City brothel, accompanied by others, including 20 armed immigration agents, isn’t usually part of a New York lawyer’s work.
Arrested earlier this year after more than 30 years on the lam, a California woman today was sentenced to probation for escaping a Michigan prison in 1976, a little over…
In a spillover of the criminal violence that is an increasing problem in Mexico, kidnappings for ransom—both real and “virtual”—are on the rise in Arizona.
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