A staff lawyer who had criticized her boss, Minnesota attorney general Lori Swanson, over claimed ethics issues related to the filing of two lawsuits against mortgage foreclosure rescue companies has…
A West Virginia lawyer has been suspended for two years for accessing the e-mail of his wife and eight other lawyers at least 150 times over a two-year period.
A lawsuit filed last week against Morgan Lewis & Bockius and one of its partners claims the partner made mistakes in a patent application and then waited too long to…
A former corporate partner in Baker & McKenzie’s New York office has been indicted for allegedly stealing $1.3 million from a client trust account. The money reportedly represents interest earned…
An Ohio judge is facing potential discipline after being twice conned by a former client in connection with business ventures, according to court records.
A California appeals court has granted a new trial to a divorce litigant whose case abruptly ended when the judge walked out while his lawyer was questioning a witness.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Boston College law graduates on Friday that a lawyer’s job is to offer clients “dispassionate and reasoned analysis” of legal issues.
Updated: Outsourcing legal work to India permits the U.S. government to intercept confidential documents, violating attorney-client privilege and the constitutional rights of those accused of wrongdoing, a Washington, D.C., area…
Updated: A former name partner in a New York plaintiffs firm has been criminally charged for allegedly groping two female attorneys while working at his own small-firm law office.
State disciplinary authorities in Texas issued warnings to two judges that chastise one for discussing slavery with an African-American attorney before his court and another who reportedly “slapped” a female…
Lawyers in Boston are still waiting and wondering whether a popular bankruptcy judge, who resigned from the bench after a much-publicized cross-dressing incident but then changed his mind, will be…
Former Pennsylvania Chief Justice Ralph Cappy labels as “preposterous” a lawsuit that accuses him of leading legislators to believe that the court would issue a favorable ruling on a gambling…
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