A longtime senior lawyer in an Illinois public defender’s office should be censured for photocopying documents he was entitled to discover, but had not yet received through normal channels, an…
Adding to its westward expansion in recent years, Philadelphia-based Ballard Spahr has opened a new office in San Diego with a five-lawyer team from La Bella & McNamara.
A law firm defending onetime Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford in federal civil securities litigation has sued the insurer providing his company’s policy of directors and officers liability coverage and…
A New Jersey lawyer and his two affiliated Pennsylvania debt-collection companies have agreed to cancel $7.9 million in charged-off debts, delete records of the claimed debts from the credit reports…
A transgender candidate has now officially won election to a seat on California’s superior court bench, apparently making Victoria Kolalkowski the first trial judge in the country to claim the…
Following a Rolling Stone expose about how a judge in one Florida court handled foreclosure cases on Jacksonville’s “rocket docket,” officials swiftly made changes to improve public…
In a first for the nation, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously that illegal immigrants who graduate from state high schools can receive lower tuition at California’s public universities and…
Two California men are suing a San Rafael restaurant, claiming a birthday celebration was ruined when escargot they ordered exploded, spewing hot butter on their faces and shirts.
After three years of allowing comments on its news stories, Wisconsin’s Janesville Gazette is taking a step back and shutting down commenting on stories about crime, courts,…
An environmental contamination case that made paralegal Erin Brockovich famous, after she was portrayed by actress Julia Roberts in a Oscar-winning movie about the litigation, may not be over yet.
In what the law school dean at the University of Miami is billing as a groundbreaking program to help jobless grads, it has established a new program that will pay…
For four years, criminal investigators have attended concerts at a Missouri campground owned by a member of a Grateful Dead tribute band, but they weren’t there for the music.
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