A Kentucky lawyer who criticized a decision by the state’s Legislative Ethics Commission is in the middle of an ethical controversy once again that is the fictional subject of a…
A federal judge in Omaha has refused to dismiss the drug cases against an inmate and 10 other defendants based on evidence collected by a Nebraska lawyer who wore a…
A county official’s deposition turned into a lengthy debate about the definition of copying machines in a public records case being heard by the Ohio Supreme Court.
A former Legislator in Suffolk County, N.Y., will be spending some time in the slammer after being sentenced to two consecutive prison terms today by a Suffolk County judge for…
First William Henry Winters and Marc Edward Yonker got hit with a $2 million verdict in a civil theft and racketeering case, after leaving the firm of the rainmaking personal…
Despite multiple complaints about issues ranging from the death of patients to an apparent lack of malpractice insurance at one point, a physician charged with eight murders concerning the Philadelphia…
A female client says she doesn’t remember all of what happened after the Iowa lawyer representing her in a driving under the influence case allegedly served her four alcoholic drinks…
By suing her United Kingdom law school, Maria Abramova had apparently hoped to recoup some of the $162,000 or so that she says she wasted on a failed education.
The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a per curiam decision that hits the San Francisco appellate court for an “inexplicable” three-paragraph decision…
The Las Vegas chief deputy district attorney who prosecuted Paris Hilton for cocaine possession has been arrested and accused of buying crack from a man riding in his BMW.
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