A Columbia law professor isn’t concerned about recent comments by President Obama that contradict the criminal complaint filed against the suspect in the shooting death of U.S. District Judge John…
A federal judge in California with experience in death-penalty trials has been tapped to preside over the trial of the suspect in the Tucson, Ariz., shooting spree that left six…
A graduate of Brigham Young University’s law school who reportedly served previously as a military lawyer after faking his membership in the California bar has been charged with stealing from…
A Washington newspaper has won a round in a costly court battle to force Yakima County officials and/or a local state court to make public the billing records for court-appointed…
Vacating a dismissal by a U.S. District Court, an appellate panel has ruled that a patent law issue in a $33 million malpractice claim against a Detroit-based law firm puts…
Arrested on an outstanding traffic warrant in 2007, a Texas man was beaten by two now-former Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies while in custody at the jail.
The public, lawmakers and at least one Florida newspaper columnist are outraged about the lavish new “Taj Mahal” courthouse built to house the 1st District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee…
Ohio State University law grad Hassan Jonathan Griffin of Columbus, Ohio, has a part-time job in the public defender’s office and no feasible plan to repay his law-school and credit-card…
The top criminal court in Texas has ruled that a trial judge may not hold a hearing on the constitutionality of the death penalty when a capital murder defendant has…
A busy law firm that focused its practice on mortgage foreclosures kept costs down by requiring employees to work unpaid overtime, a former paralegal at Florida Default Law Group contends…
Disbarred even though he was acquitted of criminal charges in a high-profile prosecution of three attorneys over their alleged swindling of clients in multimillion-dollar diet drug litigation, ex-lawyer Melbourne Mills…
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