All charges have been dropped against a suburban Chicago lawyer facing a criminal disorderly conduct case over a filing he attempted to make at the Lake County courthouse in December.
A prosecutor seeking 24 years for a mortgage fraud defendant complained Tuesday that the 6½-year term handed down by a federal judge to Vasilia Berger represented the biggest variance he’d…
An Illinois judge who had been hearing misdemeanor cases in Peoria County was reassigned to a civil call in Tazewell County after a Feb. 20 meeting with court personnel and…
A 21-year-old man accused of calling in a courthouse bomb threat from a pay telephone in order to try to avoid his scheduled sentencing that morning in a malicious wounding…
A New Mexico judge has resigned following allegations that he sent instant messages to his wife, a court employee, during trials and other proceedings.
News that some state court workers in California were working at home—in Minnesota, Maryland and Switzerland—has led to a stricter policy on telecommuting.
The American Bar Association is joining with two other legal groups to warn that across-the-board budget cuts threaten access to justice and put litigants, court staffers and judges “in physical…
Lise Rapaport is the wife of Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery as well as his chief judicial aide. She also makes money on the side, connecting clients with law…
Maintenance director Mike Miller used to have to arrange to remove pigeon droppings from in front of the Boone County, Ind., courthouse on a daily basis. Now all he has…
A South Texas lawyer facing 42 months in prison in a judicial bribery case died in an apparent suicide on Thursday, the same day that jurors convicted another lawyer in…
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