A plaintiff’s lawyer sued for $4 million in damages by Chevron has scored a significant interim victory in the malicious prosecution case, winning a court ruling eliminating a large portion…
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is defending the state’s payment of more than $120,000 for expert witness testimony by an anti-gay psychologist now caught up in the so-called Rentboy scandal.
A well-known law firm is on the hot seat along with its client airline over a belatedly produced 2005 e-mail that reportedly undermined a high-profile criminal cartel trial against four…
Attorney General Eric Holder says the Obama administration would like to work with Congress to develop a more flexible Miranda rule to allow longer questioning of terrorism suspects before they…
A West Virginia attorney has been accused of setting fire in 2007 to the Martinsburg law firm at which she then worked and attempting to set another fire there in…
A New York lawyer has lost his bid to introduce brain scan evidence in an employee retaliation trial to support a claim that a plaintiff’s co-worker was telling the truth…
Asked at the last minute to give a friend a ride to a suburban Chicago courthouse on Monday, 19-year-old Jennifer LaPenta got behind the wheel still dressed for the gym…
The embarrassing deposition was apparently worthwhile: A Duke University law graduate now serving as Connecticut’s secretary of state has won a court ruling that she has sufficient legal experience to…
With the help of aerial photographs, a Washington state community is zeroing in on thousands of potentially dangerous structures put up without building permits.
Because a defense expert retained by a New Jersey law firm consulted for 15 minutes in 2007 with the plaintiff’s expert, before suit was filed in a legal malpractice matter,…
Saying that a defense motion fell “very short” of establishing a need to subpoena the president of the United States to testify in the upcoming political corruption trial of former…
Fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias is back in the news, this time for his role in the prosecution of a Canadian teen captured on an Afghanistan battlefield.
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