The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday permanently disbarred an attorney who had previously been convicted of theft after stealing more than $225,000 from an estate that he administered.
A prominent New Mexico defense attorney who had been accused of bringing drugs into a prison now faces additional charges of allegedly possessing child pornography.
Updated: Judge Ryan Douglas Nelson, who sits on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco, was charged in April with misdemeanor battery and property damage.
A federal appeals court has sanctioned two lawyers for filing briefs that contained artificial intelligence-generated hallucinations and for their lack of candor over the mistakes.
A former Ohio judge was sentenced Monday to 60 days in the county jail and fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to tampering with records, so that she could steer court business to a friend.
An Iowa lawyer who was appointed to represent a criminal defendant was recently reprimanded for claiming that he had dementia, so that he could be excused from the case.
An Alabama judge who described herself as the “ultimate authority” has been suspended following complaints that she was incompetent, unprofessional and failed to diligently discharge her judicial duties.
A New York compliance lawyer was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months and a day in prison for his role in a fraudulent scheme to steal $20 million from an Emigrant Bank unit.
Updated: A judicial conduct committee has confirmed findings that a federal judge had sex inside her chambers during work hours with a high-ranking police officer and within earshot of clerk staff.
A lawyer has been barred from appearing in a case involving a scandal at the Harvard Medical School morgue after he was sanctioned for including fake artificial intelligence citations in other court filings.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge who made disparaging remarks and interrupted litigants in court was recently publicly admonished by the state’s judicial disciplinary body for the second time.
A former Brooklyn Supreme Court justice was arrested Tuesday for allegedly participating in numerous schemes to defraud investors in commercial real estate deals.
President Donald Trump’s appointee for U.S. attorney in Albany, New York, was found to have committed professional misconduct, according to the New York judicial committee that reviews complaints against attorneys.
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