A California judge will resign after pleading guilty to a felony mail fraud charge for allegedly hiring a physician convicted of health care fraud to prepare medical records to submit to the state’s workers’ compensation program, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
A Pennsylvania judge who allegedly kept a “Book of Grudges” and a sexually explicit calendar in her office violated judicial conduct standards, according to formal charges filed Wednesday.
A federal judge this week ordered Lindsey Halligan, a former personal lawyer for President Donald Trump whom he installed as interim U.S. attorney in Virginia, to explain why she continues to say in court filings that she is still in that role despite another judge’s ruling that her appointment was unconstitutional.
A state appeals court has upheld the law license suspension of attorney Norm Pattis—a lawyer for former Infowars host Alex Jones—who improperly disclosed the sensitive medical files of a Sandy Hook Elementary School family during a 2022 defamation trial.
An attorney known for his activism on behalf of the homeless has been disbarred for allegedly pressuring a client to sign a plea agreement and mishandling her money while also propositioning her for sex and cocaine.
A lawyer and a law firm that represented the Chicago Housing Authority must pay nearly $60,000 for filing a court document that included a fake citation.
The California Supreme Court has rejected a state bar proposal to automatically expunge records of attorney discipline other than disbarment after eight years.
A judge in Wakulla County, Florida, has apologized and recused himself from an estate battle after telling attorneys in the case that he “would like to tell the deputy to pull his gun and shoot all three of you.”
A lawyer has been suspended from Ohio law practice for 18 months, with six months stayed, for an incident in which he confronted ex-colleagues with a hatchet and challenged the name partner of his former law firm to a duel.
Two Michigan judges who faced ethics charges stemming from a “trivial dispute” over a $23 Mackinac Island bicycle rental did not commit misconduct, according to two reports by a retired judge appointed as a master in their cases.
A California lawyer with a big social media presence should be disbarred after pleading no contest to facts underpinning multiple acts of alleged misconduct involving 10 imprisoned clients and 13 cases, according to a stipulation and conclusions of law approved by a state bar court judge.
Updated: The lead prosecutor handling cases against protesters during the January 2017 inauguration of President Donald Trump should be suspended for three months for “simply untenable” discovery conduct, according to a hearing committee of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Board on Professional Responsibility.
