Lawyer Lyle Koenig says his letter threatening to reveal a prosecutor’s alleged car registration violation was intended as a joke, but Gage County Attorney Randy Ritnour didn’t take it that…
A district attorney’s office that refused a Pennsylvania judge’s order to reveal the name of a confidential informant has been held in contempt of court and fined $5,000.
Fired by the Bush administration in 2006 along with eight other top federal prosecutors for what some consider to have been political reasons, Daniel Bogden, it appears, may soon have…
An Illinois lawyer who is under consideration for the job of U.S. attorney got an up-close taste of crime-fighting on Wednesday when he chased and tackled a suspected thief.
A former top White House aide during the administration of President George W. Bush says he relayed information that may have encouraged the hiring and firing of federal prosecutors, including…
Retired federal judge Abner J. Mikva, who heads up a panel investigating clout in the admissions process at the University of Illinois, decried the growing practice by prosecutors of holding…
Joining in a call by private defense lawyers representing Zhenli Ye Gon to dismiss the federal drug conspiracy indictment against him with prejudice, two Washington, D.C., public defender agencies say…
The tough job market has apparently pushed more law students into unpaid internships at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office, where they compete for office chairs, good assignments and permanent job…
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee today called for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special counsel to probe potential abuses of power under the Bush administration.
The attorney general of Grenada has resigned over a letter he sent on official letterhead seeking leniency for his stepson from the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney in a Florida criminal case.
The New Jersey Attorney General’s office is battling the effects of a hiring freeze with a new internship program for unemployed lawyers and law grads.
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