A woman who became severely disabled giving birth to triplets in 2006 has the right to see her children, a California judge ruled today in a temporary order pending a…
A constitutional requirement for a lawyer in civil contempt cases against parents who don’t pay child support would be a “massive” change, a lawyer argued before the U.S. Supreme Court…
A hearing officer had recommended only a six-month suspension for Arizona attorney Charna Johnson, who admittedly had claimed to serve as a medium channeling the thoughts of a client’s dead…
Twenty-six years after a young couple vanished from their San Marino home, prosecutors in California have charged a German national known as “Crockefeller” with murder concerning the death of the…
Emmett Corrigan, a 30-year-old Boise, Idaho, lawyer in practice since October, was shot and killed Friday, allegedly by a man whose wife was Corrigan’s employee.
In the latest chapter of the Charlie Sheen saga, the Los Angeles police department raided the actor’s home last night in a search for any firearms and ammunition that might…
Cyndi Cheatham says she was simply seeking to see that her client, who is married to a man in a well-known Franklin County, Tenn., family, got a fair divorce trial.
Actor Mel Gibson reportedly is about to plead no contest in a domestic battery case concerning his ex-girlfriend in exchange for a sentence that includes no jail time.
Robert Leighton’s alleged bad behavior after a Las Vegas bachelor’s party created a rift between Chicago attorney Lauren Serafin and her ex-fiance, who is also a lawyer. The result, she…
After reportedly clinging to the windshield of her husband’s car as he hit speeds of up to 100 mph during a 40-mile wild ride, a California woman was treated for…
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