A federal judge has given a green light both to a race discrimination suit filed against Mayer Brown by a fired former associate and a counterclaim in which the law…
Testifying today for the first time as a legal ethics case against her enters its second week, a Michigan judge and her counsel blamed the trial on a claimed effort…
A suspended Michigan judge wearily spent hours on the witness stand today during a legal ethics trial, answering questions about hundreds of checks showing questionable expenditures ranging from “independent contractor”…
A suspended Michigan judge who has been accused of misapplying some $130,000 in public funds and making false reports to cover up her excessive absenteeism is…
The American Civil Liberties Union is backing an appeal by a young Michigan attorney who was briefly jailed after asserting his client’s Fifth Amendment rights when a judge tried to…
The law firm that employs a young Michigan attorney who was briefly jailed for telling his client at arraignment not to answer a judge’s questions about drug use is planning…
Updated: A transcript has been published of a Dec. 1 arraignment at which a Michigan attorney prevented his client from answering a judge’s questions about drug use and was jailed…
Updated: A Michigan criminal defense lawyer spent about four hours in jail on Friday after being held in contempt for telling a client to assert his Fifth Amendment right against…
A woman has sued a used-car dealer in greater Detroit and the company that financed her 2006 Ford Expedition, contending that she wasn’t told when she purchased the vehicle used…
There’s going to be more fallout for a Michigan personal injury lawyer over an $8.4 million settlement by the city of Detroit that has created trouble for many of the…
Supporters of a Michigan mom scolded by a Paw Paw district judge after she breastfed her son in the courtroom are planning a “nurse-in” outside the Van Buren County courthouse…
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