A Cook County judge has ordered a halt to cleanup of a derailed train after crews discovered the derailment and subsequent bridge collapse Wednesday claimed the lives of at least…
A longtime lawyer who helped build a small New Jersey law firm into one of the state’s biggest over his 80-year career there while maintaining a reputation as a consummate…
Oakland, Calif., civil rights lawyer John Burris represented Rodney King when he won a $3.8 million judgment against the Los Angeles police department, a victory for the man whose taped…
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, a former legal adviser to Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy who famously faced off with then-Gov. George C. Wallace in 1963 at the main building…
A man once described as the evil genius of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon who was transformed by a Watergate prison term into an evangelical Christian and energetic…
Two Nevada lawyers who were targeted in a federal investigation of claimed widespread corruption among Las Vegas area homeowner associations have been found dead within a week of each other.
Walking around the corner for a late-night snack from his apartment in Chicago’s trendy Old Town neighborhood, a Northwestern University law student was killed in a hit-and-run accident early Saturday.
Having already been found liable in the 2006 hiking accident deaths of a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner and her cousin, the state of Hawaii has agreed to pay a…
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