A longtime Golden Gate University law professor who defended Vietnam War protesters and civil rights advocates, Bernard Segal, has died at the age of 81.
As a child escaping from what she described as an abusive home situation, Wendy Babcock turned to prostitution at 15 to support herself. She quit in 2003, after a colleague…
Five adults and four juveniles have been charged with first-degree murder and other crimes in the killing last month of a Kansas attorney who was shot to death when she…
Remembered at a funeral mass in Laurel, Md., attended by hundreds of mourners on Saturday evening, slain Mercer University law graduate Lauren Giddings was recalled again and again for the…
Police in Tarrant, Ala., began looking for a Talladega County civil defense and worker’s compensation lawyer yesterday after finding his white 2009 GMC Yukon afire.
Terrible though it has been for family and friends of a murdered Mercer University law graduate to know that she is dead, it could have been worse, the Macon police…
A 40-year-old Kansas attorney was shot and killed and her female companion was injured when a gunman approached their vehicle as they pulled into their driveway in Topeka a little…
Updated: Scheduled to be in federal court in East St. Louis for sentencing today at 9 a.m. in a mail fraud case, an Illinois attorney sent his lawyer a fax…
A dismembered body found near the apartment of a missing Mercer University law graduate has been identified as that of the young woman, 27-year-old Lauren Giddings, who served as president…
A jailed Russian lawyer who had accused government officials of corruption was chained to a cot and beaten by eight guards immediately before he died in 2009, according to a…
Updated: A former BigLaw associate who was criminally charged in a child pornography case described by a prosecutor as involving “truly sickening” images was found dead in Mexico City within…
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