When a Kentucky judge last month sentenced Brian Pollard to four days in jail for DUI, she apparently had no idea there’d been a fatality tied to the incident.
A federal judge arguably added to attorney Eric Deters’ troubles today by criticizing his “ready, fire, aim” approach to litigation and requiring him to get an independent lawyer, selected by…
May a lawyer represent a man accused of killing the lawyer’s client? Recent news stories detail ethics questions surrounding the arrangement in two separate prosecutions.
In 2006, a Kentucky judge retired rather than face potential discipline for his role in overseeing a $200 million settlement in controversial diet drug litigation that sent two of the…
The Kentucky Bar Association Board of Governors is recommending that famous mass tort lawyer Stanley Chesley be disbarred for his role in a $200 million fen-phen settlement that ended with…
A Kentucky lawyer claims in a lawsuit that his law firm directed him to trade clients with a chiropractor’s medical clinics and fired him when he refused.
The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that a man who had an affair with a married woman may assert a paternity claim to the child he conceived in the relationship.
A federal judge has ordered a Kentucky lawyer to pay the defense costs of two Kenton County prosecutors after suing them for false arrest and malicious prosecution in what U.S.…
John M. Berry, a lawyer who has had an ongoing free speech battle with the Kentucky Bar Association, lost the latest round today in federal court in Frankfort, Ky.
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