2566 ABA Journal Florida articles.
Updated: Jack Thompson’s attempt to make a point about a gay news Web site has backfired badly.
A federal judge is threatening action against the Florida lawyer for attaching electronic…
Sep 27, 2007 1:09 PM CDT
A Miami-area lawyer who lost a $600,000 investment in WorldCom stock may pursue his suit against Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. because of an en banc ruling of a federal appeals…
Sep 25, 2007 12:03 PM CDT
A well-known defense lawyer is the latest central Florida attorney to be caught in the crossfire between high-profile client Lou Pearlman, a jailed music producer with $500 million in claimed…
Sep 24, 2007 6:37 PM CDT
CORRECTED:The man known as O.J. Simpson’s lawyer is in media demand since his client’s arrest on armed robbery charges, a situation he appears to relish.
Yale Galanter toiled in relative…
Sep 21, 2007 3:05 PM CDT
Kelly-Ann Cartwright is something of a trailblazer.
She has been named executive partner of Holland & Knight in Miami, the first black woman to lead one of the firm’s offices…
Sep 21, 2007 1:59 PM CDT
The wife of a disabled Florida man serving a 25-year sentence for trafficking in drugs–the medication he needs to suppress his pain–was stunned yesterday when the state pardoned him at…
Sep 20, 2007 6:43 PM CDT
A federal prosecutor arrested in a child sex sting tried to hang himself in jail early today.
John David Roy Atchison was accused of flying to the…
Sep 20, 2007 5:18 PM CDT
A special bill is being pursued in the U.S. Senate to help a star Miami area student facing deportation with his family as illegal immigrants.
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) filed…
Sep 19, 2007 3:46 PM CDT
A federal judge has approved a plea deal that calls for a once-prominent Miami personal injury lawyer to serve up to 15 years in prison.
Louis Robles, who has been…
Sep 18, 2007 4:34 PM CDT
A federal prosecutor has been arrested on suspicion of flying to metropolitan Detroit with the intention of having sex with a 5-year-old girl.
John David Roy Atchison was arrested in…
Sep 18, 2007 1:26 PM CDT
The woman who became famous as the first female attorney general of the United States is now making a mark in an entirely different line of work: music production.
Janet…
Sep 17, 2007 4:49 PM CDT
Attorneys for a Miami mass-torts lawyer going on trial for stealing client money want to question potential jurors about their views on personal injury lawyers.
Jury selection in the trial…
Sep 17, 2007 1:00 PM CDT
Updated: After a massive hunt, police shot and killed a man suspected of killing one Miami-Dade cop and wounding three others with a high-powered rifle.
Shawn Sherwin LaBeet was armed…
Sep 14, 2007 10:35 AM CDT
Updated: A continuing faculty controversy at Ave Maria School of Law that has become focused, in part, on a planned campus move from Michigan to Florida is heating up.
Faculty…
Sep 13, 2007 7:05 PM CDT
A purse-snatcher picked the wrong victim when he allegedly stole Marta Suarez’ handbag yesterday in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami.
The 85-year-old victim, a former Cuban track star in…
Sep 13, 2007 3:21 PM CDT
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