On trial in Kentucky for the murder of her husband, attorney Larry Gilliam, who was shot to death in his law office last year, Lisa Gilliam is arguing that his…
Bingham McCutchen has become the latest major law firm to centralize its back-office legal services in a facility far from its expensive big-city attorney offices.
A lawyer for Louis M. Smith said his Parkinson’s disease is at least in part responsible for the now-disbarred Kentucky lawyer’s alleged embezzlement of over $1 million from two elderly…
The Kentucky Bar Association has been ordered by a federal judge to pay a little over $190,000 in attorney’s fees to a lawyer whose free speech rights were chilled.
A federal appeals court has sided with a Kentucky lawyer who challenged, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, a threatened legal ethics case concerning his criticism of…
The University of Louisville’s law school budgeted $550,000 for scholarships to incoming students this academic year. But, officials say, the school actually offered first-year law students $1.3 million.
Last week, American Lawyer Media announced that it’s forming a “Marketing Services team that will work with clients to plan, execute and measure a comprehensive…
A Kentucky woman sued a Lexington dentist on Thursday, contending that she reflexively swallowed a small implant screwdriver he dropped in her mouth during a routine treatment and it had…
One of Kentucky’s most prominent civil rights lawyers has been disbarred after failing to remit to three clients over $150,000 to which they were entitled.
A Kentucky judge blasted prosecutors for alerting local media in what he claimed was a “petulant and peevish” effort to pressure him into ruling in the state’s favor when deciding…
Disbarred even after he was acquitted in a high-profile criminal case against three attorneys accused of swindling clients in multimillion-dollar fen-phen diet drug litigation, a Kentucky lawyer has won another…
The Kentucky Court of Appeals reversed the conviction of a suspended Louisville attorney in a tax evasion case Friday and granted him a new trial because he had been forced…
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