Spying on behalf of a major drug trafficking cartel is still ongoing at the Mexican attorney general’s office, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer suspects, even after five officials there…
Two top employees in the unit of the Mexican attorney general’s office charged with fighting organized crime have instead been passing information to the Beltran-Leyva drug trafficking cartel about federal…
An Arizona-based law firm has opened its first foreign office in Mexico, becoming the first major United States firm to do so in the Baja California Sur state.
Officials in Ontario, Canada, promised compensation to wrongfully convicted criminal defendants today after a judge commissioned by the government to investigate a pediatric pathologist castigated Dr. Charles Smith in a…
A major Canadian law firm has caught the attention of a local newspaper with a recent ad that features a business-suited “law student” with long blond hair.
Gunned down in the bedroom of his home, inches from his wife and infant daughter, Juan Jose Soriano is a prime example of why Mexico’s drug war isn’t likely to…
Addressing a public that has become increasingly outraged over a spike in violent crime related to drug-dealing, Mexico’s president and other government officials have unveiled a comprehensive plan to reform…
Concerned citizens throughout Mexico are planning a national march against crime on Aug. 30 that is focusing, in large part, on a huge increase in kidnappings for ransom in recent…
A former president of the Canadian Bar Association has been an easy mark in recent years for savvy litigants in family law cases. If they wanted to prevent her from…
In a country already reeling from the effects of a brutal drug war, the abduction and murder of the 14-year-old son of a well-to-do Mexican industrialist is spurring national efforts…
A secret Canadian government report says a youth detained at Guantanamo Bay was deprived of sleep in an effort to make him more willing to talk during interrogations.
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