In a ruling that a CBS spokesman called “a total victory,” a New York appeals court today reversed a trial judge and said former network anchorman Dan Rather’s breach of…
The head of the U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice group in the Washington, D.C., office of Baker Botts has announced that he is leaving the firm to form a…
Having already been told they would have to wait until January of 2010 to start work after graduating from law school in 2009, about half of the incoming class of…
A judge who teaches a trial techniques class at the University at Buffalo law school says seven students who didn’t listen to him ended up saving his life.
A lawyer representing himself in a dispute with his landlord has no First Amendment right to wear jeans and a baseball cap in court, a federal judge has ruled.
Actress Kirsten Dunst was the star witness today in a New York trial of a mechanic accused of stealing a $13,000 Balenciaga handbag from her swanky Soho Grand penthouse suite…
CORRECTED: A “negligent” stapling job on a court filing that twice drew blood from a court clerk drew the attention of a New York judge, who took time to note…
At one time, only nonprofit hospitals were allowed to float tax-exempt bonds, which they used to build new facilities. A 1986 amendment to the tax code changed that, extending the…
A New York lawyer is among eight individuals charged in an alleged scheme in which current and former employees of city hospitals are accused of selling confidential patient information to…
If a private practitioner has sex with a client, it might be pursued as an a legal ethics violation. But because of his governmental role, a former assistant public defender…
Following a five-month trial, a New York jury is finally deliberating the criminal case against a son of socialite Brooke Astor and one of her attorneys. They are accused by…
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