Getting into gear to consider possible impeachment proceedings against a federal judge, the House Judiciary Committee formed a task force today to consider the case against U.S. District Judge Thomas…
Leaders of the House Judiciary Committee are calling for an investigation into the conduct of U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous, accused of perjury and taking money from lawyers who appeared…
Students at the University of Illinois law school are collecting donations in large orange buckets at football games to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Lawyer Stephen Bright, president of the Southern Center for Human Rights, had told officials he wanted to help an ex-con get his life on track when he…
Franchesca Hamilton-Acker, a Lafayette, La., lawyer who serves as the ABA Young Lawyers Division representative for the state, is getting ready for Hurricane Gustav to come ashore and—after the storm…
Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell received more than 300 complaints by late Saturday of gas stations jacking up the price of fuel as hundreds of thousands of residents made their…
If Hurricane Gustav is anything like 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, lawyers who blog will be cut off from the outside world when the storm comes ashore and the power goes out.…
Founded shortly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Wolfe Law Group—with offices in New Orleans and Seattle—is using technology to continue to function during Hurricane Gustav.
New advertising standards for Louisiana lawyers are slated to go into effect on December 1, but some practitioners feel they could still using a bit of tweaking.
Albert Woodfox, a former member of the Black Panthers, has been held in solitary confinement for more than 35 years for the 1972 murder of a Louisiana prison guard.
A longtime Loyola University New Orleans School of Law professor who is credited with making Louisiana women equal partners in their marriages died Saturday. Janet Mary Riley was 92.
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