A lawyer who is employed as a staff attorney at a federal court in Syracuse, N.Y., has taken a misdemeanor plea in a child sex-abuse case and is expected to…
A few lawyers and paralegals at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe’s New York headquarters made it to work on Monday, even though the office was officially closed for Hurricane Sandy. One…
A Florida judge has stricken as unconstitutional a new law requiring courts to pay, out of their own funds, for the cost of court-appointed private attorneys to represent defendants in…
Already slapped earlier this year with a $10,000 sanction by a state appeals court for his insulting deposition conduct toward a trial judge, her clerk, a court reporter and plaintiff’s…
Updated: As what is expected to be an epic storm sweeps into the East Coast from Florida to Canada and could hit the Northeast especially hard, courts and law firms…
Things began to look up a little bit Monday for a disgraced former Tennessee judge accused of lying to three other judges and a prosecutor to try to conceal a…
Efrain Cazares, a federal judge for the Mexico state of Michoacan accused of improperly releasing drug cartel suspects, was fired Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.
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…
An ethics complaint accuses a Philadelphia judge of leaving negative information off of candidate questionnaires submitted to a committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
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