821 ABA Journal Ohio articles.
Following a troubling report last year about Ohio’s youth prison, the state has promised to direct $30 million in additional funding and hire 100 more guards to improve the system.
…Apr 4, 2008 6:06 PM CDT
An expensive, bitter supreme court race in Wisconsin ended Tuesday with the first unseating of a justice since 1967, when Chief Justice George Currie was ousted after he allowed the…
Apr 2, 2008 6:25 PM CDT
As home foreclosure rates continue to reach record levels, Ohio’s political leaders are supporting a program that offers free legal representation to Ohioans making below $54,000 a year for a…
Apr 2, 2008 6:09 PM CDT
Although an upcoming merger at the end of the month will put more than 100 lawyers at Charlotte, N.C.-based Helms Mullis & Wicker into one of the nation’s largest law…
Mar 26, 2008 4:01 PM CDT
Is Angie Cox a caring parent with an unhealthy teenager? Or is she an unusual mom who encourages doctors to diagnose nonexistent symptoms and illnesses in order to put herself…
Mar 25, 2008 9:52 AM CDT
Disbarred Ohio lawyer Elsebeth Baumgartner lost a 2006 suit accusing her of libel, and now she has lost the latest round in a battle over unsubstantiated allegations of persecution that…
Mar 19, 2008 4:20 PM CDT
A new option of graduating from the University of Dayton School of Law after five semesters instead of the traditional six has definite benefits.
Although it requires students to work…
Feb 6, 2008 11:25 PM CST
The untimely death of one of Cleveland’s best-known plaintiffs lawyers has sparked an ugly court spat that could require dissolution of his super-profitable firm and the sale of its private…
Feb 5, 2008 9:51 PM CST
The pregnant Toledo lawyer who pleaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping is admitting to misusing client funds and plans to give up her law license.
Karyn…
Jan 30, 2008 7:25 PM CST
After 40 years in business, a Toledo, Ohio, law firm is getting attention because a majority of its attorneys, including shareholders, are women.
“It’s just something that happened naturally over…
Jan 30, 2008 6:13 PM CST
A pregnant Ohio lawyer who claimed she was kidnapped pleaded guilty today to one count of making false alarms.
Karyn McConnell Hancock, 35, was missing…
Jan 29, 2008 8:29 PM CST
Ohio remains one of 15 states in which the convicted lose their option for DNA testing once they get out of prison or die.
In a lengthy feature about innocence…
Jan 29, 2008 5:45 PM CST
A man who stole a Salvation Army donation kettle containing $250 the week before Christmas was sentenced by a Cleveland-area judge to spend the night homeless.
Last Thursday, Painesville Municipal…
Jan 28, 2008 5:51 PM CST
Lawyers for the parents of a man who died in a van accident argued yesterday they have a constitutional right to the return of his organs removed in an autopsy.
…Jan 24, 2008 3:00 PM CST
Local officials have advanced several cutting-edge concepts lately about how to save money on legal fees. However, the lawyers concerned may not be jumping for joy over the innovative ideas.
…Jan 10, 2008 12:05 AM CST
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