Authorities in Boston have unveiled the Real Time Crime Center, a new camera network that helps authorities not only identify suspects but provide police with potentially lifesaving information about what…
Attracted by the opportunity to market their wedding-related products and services to a huge group of brides-to-be, hundreds of would-be exhibitors paid $350 to $4,000 for a chance to promote…
Without admitting liability—and, according to a company press release, without making any monetary contribution—a partner of Troutman Sanders has agreed to participate in a $14 million civil settlement agreement with…
A lawyer in the limelight for his defense of the accused kidnapper who called himself Clark Rockefeller is defending his law license before Massachusetts’ highest…
Contending that a Massachusetts condominium association violated fair housing law by restricting children’s play activities in outdoor common areas, the local U.S. attorney has filed a federal lawsuit against Stonecleave…
In a series of new investigations related to the prior conduct of a biology professor accused of shooting three colleagues to death and wounding three others at a faculty meeting…
Applications tripled in February after the Southern New England School of Law merged with the University of Massachusetts, creating the first public law school in the state.
A Massachusetts lawyer has been suspended for a year and a day for using a client’s handicapped parking permit in an effort to get more than a dozen parking tickets…
Why wasn’t University of Alabama shooting suspect Amy Bishop charged for allegedly trying to steal a getaway car after shooting her brother in 1986? A columnist who is asking the…
As mortgage foreclosures continue to surge throughout the nation, there’s at least one case that should never have been filed, a Massachusetts couple says.
A woman who was convicted of child abuse in West Virginia and sentenced to one year in jail after she was caught on tape in a hospital trying to smother…
Despite economic woes and layoffs in Boston’s legal sector, senior lawyers from three of the city’s largest firms are reporting they had their most profitable year ever in 2009.
A Boston-area criminal defense lawyer has been federally charged in a money-laundering case, accused of conspiring with another defendant to conceal the source of $1.7 million in illegal drug-trafficking proceeds…
Today the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education unanimously approved a plan to merge the unaccredited Southern New England School of Law with the University of Massachusetts.
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