Updated: Two Louisiana lawyers who traded barbs and got into a short physical altercation during a court proceeding have landed in trouble with the state attorney discipline board.
A federal judge has ruled a private arbitrator has no standing to sue a law firm based on allegations it made false charges in court papers that sought to disqualify…
A former South Carolina magistrate has been publicly reprimanded based on findings he used a racial slur and sought to videotape a law clerk in a sexual encounter.
The California Supreme Court has refused to kick two prosecutors off pending cases over alleged conflicts of interest caused by their participation in fictionalized portrayals of crimes.
A federal appeals court has affirmed dismissal of stock fraud charges against two lawyers because a prosecutor withheld evidence favorable to the defense.
Overwhelmed by the work involved in a high-profile 18-month trial and taking on too many other matters, a Toronto lawyer couldn’t bring himself to admit the problem and ask for…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by a Virginia death row inmate who contends the federal courts improperly weighed his claim that his lawyer did a…
The recusals of four justices left the U.S. Supreme Court without a quorum today in a dispute over the legal rights of apartheid victims, leaving intact an appeals court ruling…
A Canadian partner of Dorsey & Whitney has reportedly been fired by the Minneapolis-based law firm, as an insider trading probe to which the lawyer has been linked continues.
Updated: “Hundreds and hundreds” of New York lawyers will be implicated in a statewide scheme in which non-employees have improperly been enrolled in the public pension system, the state attorney…
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