A former Arkansas judge waived indictment and pleaded guilty Friday to a federal criminal information (PDF) charging him with accepting a bribe for reducing a nursing home negligence verdict…
A nativity scene on the courthouse lawn in Mountain Home, Arkansas, will include a disclaimer after a humanist group complained about the display last year.
A Little Rock, Arkansas, judge issued an arrest warrant for the head of a housing agency for not providing documents sought in a newspaper’s Freedom of Information Act request, the…
Imprisoned a decade ago after he and his son mailed a live poisonous snake to a man with whom they had a dispute, a former Arkansas judge on Friday was…
An Arkansas judge has been permanently removed from the bench over online comments he made under a “geauxjudge” pseudonym, including discussion of a confidential adoption of a child by…
Two lead lawyers in long-running litigation over Pfizer’s Inc.’s Prempro menopause drug have more than doubled their own payout by challenging a plan to allocate them less than $10 million…
The Walmart Museum and family members of Wal-Mart Stores founder Sam Walton have filed a lawsuit seeking the rights to family photos taken over the course of several decades.
All seven justices on the Arkansas Supreme Court have paid their bar dues late some time in the past, a possible issue for three justices because of an Arkansas constitutional…
A provision in the Arkansas Constitution is causing some problems for judicial candidates who failed to pay licensing fees on time, including a court of appeals judge who is running…
An Arkansas lawyer who hit the headlines last year after the state attorney general publicly admitted the two had an “inappropriate” relationship is back in the news again.
A yearlong national survey showed a “disturbing” amount of discrimination against deaf and hard-of-hearing would-be renters and led to the filing of nine federal fair-housing administrative complaints by advocacy groups…
An attorney accused of helping a client who was once a successful real estate developer conceal a substantial sum of money in a law firm trust account has been convicted…
Customers who claim LegalZoom’s document-preparation services amount to the unauthorized practice of law won’t be able to take their case before a judge.
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