The Alabama Supreme Court has affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit that would have required the Alabama secretary of state to certify the birth certificate of presidential candidates before their…
After adding attorneys last month in Denver, Georgia and New York, a nearly 300-attorney law firm with offices throughout the south is expanding again.
An Alabama judge Friday refused to dismiss a capital murder charge against the grandmother of a 9-year-old girl who authorities said was forced to run for three hours as punishment…
Citing Alabama’s stand-your-ground law, a Tuscaloosa judge has dismissed a civil suit by a former college student who says she was injured in a fight with her sorority sister, the…
When they got an email earlier this month inviting them to a state dinner at the White House in honor of the president of France, two young lawyers practicing at…
The father and stepmother of a 5-year-old Tennessee girl are facing first-degree murder charges over accusations that they caused her death by forcing her to consume an excessive amount of…
It isn’t just individuals who are taking legal action over a massive data breach in November and December that reportedly involved at least 40 million and perhaps as many as…
Closing a chapter in a criminal case that is considered symbolic of racial injustice in the early decades of the 20th Century, the Alabama parole board Thursday granted posthumous pardons…
A University of Alabama supporter must pay $796,731.98 in restitution for poisoning an iconic 130-year-old stand of oak trees at Auburn University, a state-court judge has ruled.
The ex-wife of former football great Kenny Stabler has filed a malpractice suit against the lawyer who represented her in a misdemeanor case over a restroom incident in an Alabama…
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