A federal judge has agreed to unseal the grand jury testimony of a key witness in the indictment of former Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa for obstruction of justice.
Following blistering criticism by a federal judge who last week appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the government’s handling of a high-profile criminal corruption case against former Sen. Ted Stevens,…
A district attorney in Orange County, Calif., is agreeing to dismiss some misdemeanor and drug charges against defendants if they provide a DNA sample.
Updated: Two well-known law firms have partially resolved what one participant has termed a “sandbox” dispute over a PowerPoint presentation about legal fees paid by Sherwin-Williams Co. in lead paint…
Updated: It now appears that it wasn’t merely a document but a PowerPoint presentation on legal costs allegedly purloined by an unknown person from a 2004 Sherwin-Williams board meeting that…
The U.S. Supreme Court has revived a controversial ruling of the Warren era in a decision holding that some voluntary confessions may be tossed because of delayed court appearances for…
Lawyers battling over funds seized for human rights victims of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos have asked an appeals court to force a controversial federal judge to account for…
A prominent New York lawyer complained bitterly when his law office was raided last month by Suffolk County authorities. But now George Guldi is in a better position to object…
A lawyer who won a rare insanity acquittal from a Massachusetts jury last week for a client charged with the first-degree murder of his own mother has blasted the district…
A receiver for Stanford Group Co. has asked a federal judge in Dallas to order a law firm that represented an Antigua-based bank at the center of a claimed $8…
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