A traffic magistrate with no history of attorney discipline in Florida has been arrested and charged with obstruction with violence after allegedly following a man into a courthouse restroom last…
After deliberating for 10 hours, a Florida jury has reached a verdict in the first-degree murder case of Casey Anthony, who was accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, in…
The National Law School Admission Council reported last week that black enrollment at the University of Florida Levin College of Law dropped 10 percent between fall 2006 and 2010.
A visibly irked judge in a high-profile Orlando, Fla., murder trial warned lawyers for both sides that he will consider possible legal ethics sanctions once the case concludes if their…
Briefly banned from practicing bankruptcy law in the Middle District of Florida, after one of its lawyers aggravated a federal judge, an Orlando law firm is now back in the…
A former drug dealer who used his prison time productively, getting a high-school equivalency diploma and reading prodigiously so he was ready to enroll in college after his release, has…
Although Whitney Boan is reportedly an excellent criminal defense attorney, she’s becoming a household name among those following the Casey Anthony murder trial for another reason: She looks a bit…
Corrected: An appeals court judge in Tallahassee, Fla., who is facing a legal ethics case over his role in a controversial $50 million courthouse construction project, among other claimed misconduct,…
Casey Anthony’s lawyer Jose Baez is taking some hits from legal analysts analyzing the legal play-by-play of the murder trial unfolding in a Florida courtroom.
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