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…
For some lawyers at one Albany, N.Y., area law firm, getting a public pension for a no-show school district job was a standard “perk of partnership,” a state prosecutor said…
A Colorado personal injury lawyer who was ordered by a jury to pay a former client $145,000 says the verdict represents a “big victory” for him, because the plaintiff was…
Judge Lance Ito, who presided over the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, was criticized Monday in a California Supreme Court opinion for actions he took while he was a prosecutor.
A report released today by the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy takes aim at a “business model” in asbestos cases that relies on “flimsy medical diagnoses” and seeks to…
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