In the 1990s, a reference to Kaye Scholer became shorthand for the power of federal regulators to punish law firms for misleading tactics in their representation of a client, in…
A retired Georgia judge who stepped down from the 2005 Atlanta courthouse killings case told an ABA panel today that prosecutors are partially to blame for high costs and delays…
Updated: Former senator and 2004 vice-presidential candidate John Edwards has reportedly admitted an extramarital affair about which he had previously lied.
The personal injury lawyer admitted that he had an…
A jury will decide whether a veteran Maryland defense lawyer tried to get a prosecution witness to change his testimony in a murder case, because “there is enough there” that…
A Pennsylvania nonprofit that claims it was overbilled by Reed Smith in a routine employment discrimination defense that was originally estimated at $50,000 and eventually racked up…
Lawyers who have been serving as standby counsel for the man who killed an Idaho family so he could kidnap and sexually abuse two children are being compelled by a…
Some 30 friends and family members attended a Tuesday sentencing hearing for a former Billings, Mont., attorney, supporting the man they knew as a devoted family man and warmhearted community…
Updated: An embattled Nevada judge was reportedly shouting “no!” during a Las Vegas disciplinary hearing yesterday, and planned to be in federal court today seeking a temporary restraining order to…
The American Bar Association is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the due process clause limits a judge’s ability to hear a case after receiving substantial contributions from…
A bankruptcy trustee contends that the law firm of Smith, Gambrell & Russell failed to prevent the founder of a now-defunct Atlanta investment firm from embezzling from his clients.
The husband of a law school dean who was named Ohio’s attorney general has retired from his law firm after questions about potential conflicts of interest.
Although it had been more than a year since Johnnie Jordan worked as a bailiff for suspended District Judge Elizabeth Halverson, he broke down yesterday in a disciplinary hearing in…
Monica Goodling and Kyle Sampson were able to inject politics in Justice Department hiring decisions partly because they rewrote the rules governing the process, a recent report reveals.
A former municipal judge in Washington state who announced at a holiday party that she was having an affair with a public defender who frequently appeared in her Federal Way…
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