Allison Worden reportedly tried to get out of a traffic ticket—for not wearing a seatbelt—by telling the officer she was a San Diego deputy district attorney. When that didn’t work,…
Volunteer work led to paying jobs at the New Jersey Attorney General’s office for the luckiest volunteers in a program created at the height of the recession.
If the 2011 Budget Control Act goes forward, the federal judiciary faces an 8.2 percent cost reduction that would send it “over the fiscal cliff,” the American Judicature Society says…
Most cities uphold on average 6 percent of excessive-force complaints against police officers, but in Chicago, only 2.7 percent were upheld, a witness testified Tuesday, in a federal civil case…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is investigating five deaths and one nonfatal heart attack, linked to Monster Energy, a highly caffeinated beverage.
What’s the value of a bribe? A federal appeals court considered the question when it overturned the conviction of a Chicago zoning inspector who accepted two $600 bribes to issue…
Covington & Burling has filed an appeal of a Minnesota judge’s determination that the law firm is conflicted out of representing the state against 3M Co. in a major environmental…
In what is being billed as a first-of-its-kind filing in Cook County, two legal clinics supported by big-name members of the legal community are pursuing a criminal court class action…
A criminal defense attorney has filed a motion seeking the dismissal of 20 criminal cases, contending that the state lacks authority to prosecute the defendants because the Orleans County state’s…
Hired in 2010 by a Florida city to check out a private company, in connection with a potential film school project in collaboration with Florida State University, a BigLaw firm…
Two weeks of special court sessions began Monday in Boston to deal with inmates serving time in state cases based on drug evidence provided by an alleged rogue chemist at…
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