Saying that the government couldn’t prove its case, a federal judge in Greenbelt, Md., has dismissed midway through trial an obstruction prosecution against a former in-house lawyer for GlaxoSmithKline.
A Maryland lawyer who was accused of helping drug traffickers launder their illegal profits and using tens of thousands of dollars in proceeds for real estate investments has taken a…
Arguing that personnel at a Nordstrom in Bethesda, Md., didn’t do enough to protect shoppers from a deranged woman armed with knives in the eight minutes she was in the…
A chemist for the Food and Drug Administration and his son are accused of reaping $2.27 million in illegal profits from an insider-trading scheme that allegedly used information from a…
At an action-packed pretrial hearing yesterday, a federal judge indicated that he may be considering dismissing the indictment (PDF) in an obstruction case against a former in-house counsel…
A former adjunct law professor at George Washington University is facing six felony charges in Florida based on allegations he attempted to seduce two “girls” online.
A paralegal who formerly worked at the Maryland offices of Shapiro & Burson has alleged that more than 1,000 “attorney” signatures on deeds in foreclosure cases were actually scribed by…
After deliberating for nearly four days, a Baltimore jury today found a community activist guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of his pregnant wife outside a courthouse where she…
The question that a jury must soon decide is not whether community leader Cleaven Williams stabbed his pregnant wife to death outside a Baltimore courthouse in 2008, minutes after she…
Prince George’s County, Md., does not have a policy requiring female criminal defense lawyers and other jail visitors to remove their bras before going through a metal detector.
Convicted of drunken driving last year following an accident that caused minor injuries to another driver, a 68-year-old Maryland judge who acknowledges a long history of alcoholism has now agreed…
A tax lawyer for the Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee has become a high-profile target in an unusual public dispute over his refusal to give his ex-wife…
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