A group formed at Harvard Law School that backs poker as an educational tool rallied outside the Massachusetts State House yesterday to oppose a bill that would impose criminal penalties…
Twenty-two law professors at Boston College Law School are sending a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey asking him to withdraw as a commencement speaker.
Updated: A raid last summer by Virginia-based LeClairRyan on Boston’s Donovan Hatem has resulted in an extraordinarily bitter and well-publicized breakup battle.
Contrary to what we now tend to think, bad behavior was common among the Puritans during the 1660s, according to Diane Rapaport. And she should know: Long-ago court records have…
Attorney General Michael Mukasey will be the first commencement speaker in some time at Boston College Law School who won’t receive its highest award, but he won’t be the last.
When officials at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art decided to litigate against artist Christoph Büchel over an incomplete commissioned piece, they probably didn’t realize what they were getting into.
In what is being hailed as a landmark ruling, a Massachusetts judge has prohibited a subprime mortgage lender from foreclosing on an entire class of “structurally unfair” loans there before…
Speculation over the past few years that an academic power couple at the University of Chicago Law School might be headed to Harvard apparently is half-right.
Two Massachusetts lawyers, including the former ethics counsel for two state governors, were disbarred today because of their aggressive investigation of a judge who ruled against their clients in 1995…
The MIT student charged with walking into an airport wearing a device feared to be a bomb is seeking dismissal of the charges on First Amendment grounds.
Citing a “genuine confusion” about what judges can say publicly about cases, Massachusetts’ highest court has assembled a committee to consider revising judicial conduct rules.
News of an apparent $400 million settlement that concludes a potential criminal case against the project manager of a controversial Boston tunnel project has sparked anger among Massachusetts residents.
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