As recent controversy over a proposed $4.85 billion settlement of Vioxx painkiller litigation shows, traditional rules of legal ethics do not fully accord with the way mass tort cases are…
A Canadian senator representing British Columbia is under investigation for allegedly overbilling one of her legal clients, a Catholic missionary order.
In one instance Sen. Mobina Jaffer is suspected of…
The Hawaii State Bar Association is asking the state’s supreme court to revise an ethical rule against the unauthorized practice of law, clarifying that nonlawyers can’t select, draft or complete…
A first-time summit in New York City last week of Indian legal process outsourcing companies and their counsel shows how the industry—which could result in some $4 billion in foreign…
Almost 26 years ago, as two Chicago public defenders were representing a client accused of murdering two police officers, their case suddenly got a lot tougher.
The U.S. Judicial Conference has upheld a censure of U.S. District Judge Manuel Real of Los Angeles for improper ex parte communications with a litigant and has remanded a second…
Photos filed with a recusal motion have led the chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court to step aside in a pending case to avoid an appearance of impropriety.
A Mississippi attorney has been sentenced by a federal judge to 6.5 years in prison and ordered to pay $5.8 million in restitution for pursuing baseless diet drug litigation on…
The district attorney in Houston says he will ask a court to dismiss charges against Texas Supreme Court Justice David Medina and his wife, indicted yesterday in connection with an…
Clients of a disbarred Florida lawyer who pleaded no contest today to stealing some $200,000 from them are reportedly likely to seek leniency for the man they thought was representing…
Lawyers for Richard “Dickie” Scruggs are seeking to throw out taped conversations about an alleged attempt to bribe a state judge, arguing that one exchange suggests the judge wanted to…
A law firm that picked up the cases of a disbarred lawyer can’t keep referral fees it promised him before his practice closed, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled.
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