For South Carolina attorneys who seek to arm themselves against the potential vicissitudes of law practice but lack the practical training to feel confident about doing so safely, their bar…
Convicted by a federal jury in Scranton of 12 of the 39 counts that he faced in a bribery case, a former president judge of Luzerne County is now trying…
A federal grand jury in Arizona has issued a sweeping new superseding indictment against suspect Jared Lee Loughner, who is accused in a January supermarket parking lot shooting rampage in…
A first-year law student at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth is a fugitive wanted in Texas and has been arrested on illegal firearms possession charges, Dartmouth police say.
An Albuquerque, N.M., policeman who listed his job description as “human waste disposal” on Facebook has caught the attention of lawyers who filed a wrongful death suit against the city…
A judge in New York’s Albany County declared a mistrial Tuesday after a juror said she had seen the defendant dragging his alleged victim across a bridge.
After a dozen lawyers from the Sacramento office of Bullivant Houser Bailey jumped ship to Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, the firm announced today that it is closing its 20-year-old…
In a move that the Wisconsin State Journal says is of questionable legality, the Republican state senators of Wisconsin voted today to authorize the arrest of…
A former general counsel of WellCare is among five ex-executives of the Florida-based company who were indicted by a federal grand jury in an alleged Medicaid fraud that is claimed…
Adding nearly two years to the sentence recommended by prosecutors, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., today sentenced a former Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Algeria to 5 and…
A Florida law firm that has been struggling since the suspension last year of founding partner Henry “Hank” Adorno was reported earlier this week to be closing its West Palm…
A Pennsylvania judge today declared a mistrial in the case of a state lawmaker and ex-prosecutor accused of conspiring with a sister to illegally use her staff to help another…
A retired chief drug prosecutor in the Detroit area has taken a plea in a controversial perjury case, along with two police officers, leaving only a former Wayne County judge…
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