The judge in charge of the case for death-row inmate Charles Dean Hood is defending a ruling made without input from defense lawyers that allowed the execution to proceed.
An editorial in the Wall Street Journal asserts that Milberg’s agreement to pay a $75 million fine to settle kickback allegations highlights a need for prosecutors…
Defense lawyer Edward Genson was so confident that the trial of his client R. Kelly was going well that he decided not to ask for a mistrial when prosecutors disclosed…
A well-known Albany, N.Y., law firm that specializes in education law has agreed to settle a pension benefits probe with the state attorney general for $500,000.
Two former partners at Milberg contend in a lawsuit that partners who pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks to lead plaintiffs harmed the law firm and drained its assets.
Updated: Barely an hour before Charles Dean Hood was scheduled to be put to death by the state of Texas at 6 p.m. tonight, a Collin County judge withdrew his…
An Oklahoma attorney has been disbarred by the state supreme court after allegations that he forged a letter under another lawyer’s letterhead, purporting to sign it with that lawyer’s name,…
Well-known Cincinnati plaintiffs lawyer Stan Chesley criticized three fen-phen lawyers in trial testimony today for failing to set up escrow accounts to hold settlement money.
Associate Louis Schneider says he knew he had to take action when he found a letter on a copy machine last December asking the Las Vegas partner who had hired…
Vinson & Elkins has agreed to pay $4.35 million to settle a lawsuit by the city of San Diego that contended the law firm’s probe into pension problems was incompetent.
With noteworthy speed, the chair of the judicial council of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has appointed a special committee to look into a judicial misconduct complaint against…
Updated: The wife of Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says her husband “is not into porn” and the few racy materials…
Clients in Collier County reportedly are complaining about several Florida law firms that have given money-back guarantees in traffic cases and then fought losing court battles on behalf of their…
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