396 ABA Journal Kentucky articles.
Updated: The construction schedule for a new, expanded library will determine whether fall classes will be held at the troubled Barkley School of Law in…
Jul 28, 2008 12:31 PM CDT
A Kentucky agency is seeking an injunction to stop the cash-strapped public defenders office from withdrawing from some kinds of cases.
The legal move comes in response to a lawsuit…
Jul 25, 2008 4:21 PM CDT
The foreman of a deadlocked jury that heard the case against three fen-phen lawyers accused of defrauding their clients says the vote was 10-2 in favor of acquitting the remaining…
Jul 7, 2008 10:32 AM CDT
Jurors still weighing the evidence against two lawyers accused of defrauding their clients out of $65 million in a fen-phen settlement aren’t making any headway. But the defense is hoping…
Jul 2, 2008 4:32 PM CDT
There’s no word on whether Kentucky personal injury attorney Kevin Renfro and the Becker Law Office, picked up any new clients.
But his…
Jul 1, 2008 10:50 PM CDT
A jury has acquitted one of three lawyers accused of defrauding their fen-phen clients out of $65 million in settlement proceeds.
Jurors acquitted Melbourne Mills Jr. but indicated they have…
Jul 1, 2008 4:05 PM CDT
The law school at Florida A&M University says there is “no objective evidence” that a fen-phen lawyer’s $1 million gift to the school in 2002 came from tainted money.
The…
Jun 24, 2008 4:48 PM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 5-4 opinion that the use of age as a factor in Kentucky’s retirement plan does not violate the federal age bias law.
…Jun 19, 2008 4:27 PM CDT
Well-known Cincinnati plaintiffs lawyer Stan Chesley criticized three fen-phen lawyers in trial testimony today for failing to set up escrow accounts to hold settlement money.
Chesley testified under a grant…
Jun 17, 2008 6:43 PM CDT
One of three fen-phen lawyers on trial for allegedly defrauding their clients in a fen-phen case testified yesterday that he and a co-defendant deposited tens of millions of dollars of…
Jun 13, 2008 1:19 PM CDT
The Kentucky judge overseeing the trial of three fen-phen lawyers accused of defrauding their clients told other attorneys and witnesses in the case yesterday to stay away from jurors.
U.S.…
Jun 11, 2008 1:10 PM CDT
A legal assistant testified Friday that a lawyer accused of misappropriating fen-phen settlement money told her to destroy legal documents showing how clients were paid.
Rebecca Phipps said she ignored…
Jun 2, 2008 12:52 PM CDT
A former client of three fen-phen lawyers testified she “smelled a rat” when they wouldn’t turn over documents supporting her settlement.
Former client Tracy Curtis testified May 20, 2008 1:07 PM CDT
Several states are considering programs to release inmates from jail early and save the cost of imprisonment.
Between 1987 and last year, states increased college spending by 21 percent, in…
May 5, 2008 4:43 PM CDT
More than nine years ago, a forensic anthropologist was called to a creek bed where hunters in Henry County, Ky., had just found the skeletal remains of a body. Handing…
Apr 21, 2008 9:29 PM CDT
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