Ever since the police beating of Rodney King in 1991 made international headlines after being captured by a citizen bystander on videotape, such recordings have often played a key role…
A Massachusetts attorney is accused of using his legal skills to identify properties that were about to be sold and then recording documents to make it look as though a…
Despite a difficult legal economy, some historically Boston-based law firms are expanding. But many are doing so internationally rather than growing their practices at home.
The managing partner of Weil Gotshal & Manges in Boston says a decision to hold the office’s holiday party in a conference room instead of a restaurant wasn’t about saving…
A 98-year-old woman has been sent to a mental hospital for a competency evaluation after being indicted on a second-degree murder charge in the death of her 100-year-old roommate.
A jury this week took only 15 minutes to convict a 25-year-old man of animal cruelty for running over a mother duck, in front of her 12 ducklings, in a…
The president of the University of Massachusetts announced today that he will support a proposal to establish the state’s first public law school under the U Mass banner.
Relatives of Dana Muller lived well into their 90s, and her 83-year-old mother still takes aerobics classes regularly. So it isn’t unrealistic, the 59-year-old recent law graduate says, to expect…
Although every situation must be considered based on its own individual facts, at least one retired former judge in Massachusetts will still be expected to continue paying his wife $42,000…
An undercover journalist researching the “shadowy underworld” of ghostwritten term papers says a senior staff attorney with the Massachusetts Appeals Court offered to write a term paper on physician-assisted suicide…
Southern New England law school dean Robert Ward is preparing for battle over his school’s plan to merge with the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and become the state’s first…
Updated: The law firm Sidley Austin has rescinded an employment offer to a Harvard law graduate who has turned himself in to police for allegedly setting fire to a Sept.…
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