The ABA House of Delegates will consider a proposed change to model ethics rules that would ease the way for lawyers leaping from one law firm to another.
Asking a Missouri judge “Are you a pedophile?” was but one of the “rude and angry” comments that reportedly helped persuade the jurist to slap a 120-day contempt sentence on…
Millions in dollars of assets held by two lawyers accused of defrauding their fen-phen clients cannot be traced, according to a motion opposing their release from jail as they await…
Florida trial lawyer Willie Gary has submitted two tapes to a court overseeing a civil suit alleging he raped a woman. The two DVDs show his accuser having sex with…
A Michigan judge who admittedly removed her opponent’s campaign signs from a seemingly public area, while leaving her own adjacent campaign signs in place, says she did nothing wrong.
An Atlanta divorce lawyer has been banned from the entire fifth floor of the DeKalb County courthouse following an incident in which he called an African-American court staffer a “little…
The annual judicial conference held by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is getting lots of attention in the legal press because of high-profile figures who canceled…
It wasn’t just political affiliation that some top officials at the Department of Justice may have considered when making decisions about hiring and firing.
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