After a five-year litigation saga, a Denver law firm has not only prevailed in its defense of a case initially brought by a former client as a legal malpractice action…
Papers covering the 33 years that the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist spent on the U.S. Supreme Court, including correspondence with fellow justices, have been donated to his alma mater.
Growing up in a circle of influential African-American attorneys at a time when the U.S. Supreme Court had just decided that racially restrictive property deed covenants were unconstitutional, Gail Milissa…
Some 40 years after a now-dead child serial killer admittedly stabbed a 16-year-old neighbor boy to death, authorities today are expected to begin excavating the Southern California site where they…
Most British judges gave up their wigs and elaborate robes on Oct. 1, and now sport simplified robes and their own hair (or lack thereof). And that’s a sorry state…
When Betty Roberts attended her first judicial conference, a male judge groped her breast. And that was just one of a number of instances of what a newspaper reviewing an…
Convicted espionage figure Morton Sobell has admitted his guilt for the first time in a New York Times interview and implicated his fellow defendant Julius Rosenberg.
The lawsuit took about 10 years to resolve, at a cost of around $18 million in today’s dollars, and the winner inherited the riches of a man reputed to be…
A Minnesota judge has been accused by a state disciplinary body of referring at least 19 divorce mediation cases to his personal attorney, in exchange for a $64,000 discount on…
A powerful secret group of wealthy warrior monks active in the Middle Ages had been maligned for centuries, remembered for accusations of heresy and sexual misconduct.
From his perch as chief legal correspondent for NBC News, Dan Abrams has developed opinions on everything from the politicization of the Justice Department to news coverage of Barack Obama.…
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