Two former state-court judges–one of them, until recently, a chief judge–as well as an attorney and a court administrator have been indicted in Georgia, in a federal case over state…
The top deputy to the chief of a government watchdog agency has resigned and accused his boss of putting “political agendas and personal vendettas” ahead of his mission.
As oral arguments were being made today in an unusual lawsuit by New York’s top judge seeking an increase in judicial pay for the state’s jurists, law blogger Eric Turkewitz…
The embattled mayor of Detroit will probably rack up some $1 million in legal bills, observers predict, just defending himself in a criminal case related to his testimony in a…
A former employee who stole $35,000 from two South Carolina law firms in separate theft schemes was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she pleaded guilty yesterday.
A New Jersey disciplinary board says a lawyer should be reprimanded for missing deadlines to file appellate briefs in two cases and then failing to tell his clients about it.
An Indiana judge charged in a misconduct complaint says he had reason to be angry when he made disparaging remarks about a defendant during a sentencing hearing in another courtroom.
A Florida lawyer who called a judge an “evil, unfair witch” on a blog has submitted a brief with the Florida Supreme Court that contends his comments were protected by…
A veteran prosecutor in suburban Chicago has been suspended without pay for a month, starting yesterday, after her boss learned of her alleged undisclosed relationship with a police officer who…
Concerned that professionals are double-dipping into public payrolls, New York’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has sent 200 letters throughout the state letting individuals know that their employment arrangements have raised…
The U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating allegations of misconduct made by a company unsuccessfully prosecuted by U.S. Attorney Alice Martin, the American Lawyer…
In a civil theft verdict that could hit two attorneys with some $2 million in damages, a Florida jury found late last month that two longtime associates of a well-known…
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