For the second time in two weeks, an Alabama judge has banned a state gambling task force from an electronic bingo casino, eliciting a bells-and-whistles response from the governor’s office.
After a biology professor at the University of Alabama was charged with shooting three colleagues to death and wounding three more at a faculty meeting in February, questions were raised…
Lawyers and others are planning a series of summer events to wish a Happy 50th Birthday to a famous book that revolves around a Southern trial and the small-town lawyer…
A lawyer and a prosecutor in Alabama were reportedly arrested at a law office Wednesday as they were accepting a check for $1 million allegedly obtained in a civil case…
Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker says in a lawsuit filed this week that one of his opponents in the June 1 Republican primary failed to “file certain required documents…
Anticipating a fee dispute after his law partners terminated his secretary last August, Garland Clifton “Gary” Hall III began withdrawing funds from a Chenault Hammond & Hall account to cover…
An 18-attorney Birmingham, Ala., law firm is to merge with 300-attorney Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrère & Denègre, increasing the New Orleans-based Southeast regional firm’s local lawyer roster to 26.
Authorities say they have solved the mystery surrounding the death of an Alabama tax lawyer and snack food heir whose body was pulled from a pond at a Birmingham, Ala.,…
The Department of Justice has sued 18 lawyers, as well as law firms, manufacturers and insurers, contending that a $300 million settlement agreed to in 2003 in an Alabama environmental…
In a series of new investigations related to the prior conduct of a biology professor accused of shooting three colleagues to death and wounding three others at a faculty meeting…
Why wasn’t University of Alabama shooting suspect Amy Bishop charged for allegedly trying to steal a getaway car after shooting her brother in 1986? A columnist who is asking the…
Explaining that three jurors who earlier raised questions about the not-guilty verdict in a criminal case against a former Alabama judge have backed down, the Mobile County…
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