A federal judge has upheld most of the new restrictions on advertising by Louisiana lawyers, but struck down two rules regulating Internet advertising.
U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman said Louisana’s…
A Baton Rouge, La., lawyer who claimed his judgment was impaired by Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder has been disbarred for diverting $50,000 in settlement funds from his law firm.
Rejecting a recommendation for harsher discipline, the Louisiana Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded attorney Craig Mordock, saying that he violated legal ethics rules by filing a libel suit on behalf…
James “Jamie” Perdigao didn’t even spend the nearly $30 million he bilked from his law firm and gaming clients there, so it was easy for the former star partner of…
A Louisiana judge sanctioned for wearing blackface at a Halloween party could face discipline in another case, this time over comments he made to a woman seeking a restraining order…
A lawsuit filed by a Louisiana woman over foot injuries she allegedly suffered while shopping at her local Wal-Mart store has made international headlines because of the claimed cause of…
Two longtime Louisiana personal injury attorneys have been disbarred by the state supreme court for allowing nonattorney case managers to run much of their law firm operation.
When Chiquita Tate met her husband-to-be, she fell for him—hard. Now he is accused of murdering the up-and-coming Louisiana attorney, whose body was found last month in her Baton Rouge…
In the final chapter of a bizarre case at one point involving counterclaims that read like the plot of a John Grisham novel, a former partner at a Louisiana law…
A lawyer who sued his sister for defamation after she filed three disciplinary complaints against him has received a reprimand from the Louisiana Supreme Court.
As one member called a Louisiana doctor who at one point was accused of criminally euthanizing patients in her care a hero, a panel today recommended that the state should…
A Los Angeles prosecutor has been accused by a defense lawyer of acting unethically concerning an off-the-clock post he wrote for his personal blog, Patterico’s Pontifications, about…
Police have made no arrests and named no suspects in the case of a Louisiana criminal defense lawyer found dead in her Baton Rouge law office on Friday as she…
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