Updated: Unlike three colleagues who worked on the fen-phen diet drug litigation, Stanley Chesley is still an active practitioner. But that could change, if attorney disciplinary authorities in Kentucky follow…
Mass torts expert Kenneth Feinberg, in the news for overseeing the BP fund to compensate Gulf oil victims, once believed that lawyers accused of bilking their…
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an effort to force the recusal of a federal judge who presided over the attempted extortion trial of a woman who…
Having already tripled its attorney roster in Louisville, Ky., since opening an office there two years ago, Fisher & Phillips is looking to hire more attorneys…
Disbarred even though he was acquitted of criminal charges in a high-profile prosecution of three attorneys over their alleged swindling of clients in multimillion-dollar diet drug litigation, ex-lawyer Melbourne Mills…
Apparently irked by a prosecutor’s critical posts on Facebook and Twitter, a Kentucky lawyer known for suing police officers filed a libel suit against Kenton Commonwealth’s Attorney Jan 10, 2011 5:37 PM CST
A bankruptcy trustee has joined a Mississippi family in challenging fees charged by a law firm and other companies involved in a mortgage foreclosure, on behalf of all similarly situated…
A Kentucky jury deliberated for only 90 minutes on Friday before convicting a murder defendant who had claimed he suffered from a sleep-deprived psychosis that made him falsely confess to…
Initial defense claims of caffeine-induced insanity and a caffeine-induced false confession were abandoned before a Kentucky jury had a chance to determine their validity in the murder…
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