Fasthosts has been forced temporarily to shut down hundreds of websites, after computer hackers penetrated the “master database” and apparently stole some private customer information including passwords, addresses and bank…
The University of Colorado has agreed to pay $2.85 million to settle a lawsuit by two women who say they were raped in 2001 at an off-campus party attended by…
There is a growing groundswell of support by colleagues for a Massachusetts judge who has become a target for national election-year political criticism after agreeing to release a convicted killer…
A corrupt lawyer at the heart of a multimillion-dollar British heroin ring reportedly is headed to jail for his role in orchestrating bogus alibis and fraudulent evidence to help associates…
A wave of violence in Mexico involving warring drug gangs has now apparently targeted several well-known musicians with no known ties to the organized-crime groups, sparking increased concern that no…
Lawyer Timothy Balducci has changed his initial not guilty plea and agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy in a judicial bribery case involving high-profile…
A Louisiana appeals court has overturned a contempt finding by a state judge that would have required a law professor working with the Orleans Parish public defender’s office in New…
A coalition of San Francisco Bay Area attorneys, including some of the area’s biggest-name law firms, has formed a task force to represent immigrants who may have been targeted in…
Computer hackers broke into a website at Duke University School of Law, and may have stolen social security numbers and other confidential information for as many as 1,400 or more…
Prosecutors and securities officials are increasingly targeting companies for paying bribes to obtain foreign contracts, bringing more than double the number of cases this year than the number filed in…
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