Updated: In a move seen as an indicator of where the Department of Justice may now be headed under the direction of a new U.S. Attorney General, the department has…
Several people are urging Attorney General Michael Mukasey to take a look at morale problems in the office of U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose of Minnesota.
As if the ongoing insurance coverage battle involving Mississippi’s attorney general, a well-known plaintiffs lawyer and a national insurance company weren’t already contentious enough, explosive new allegations have just been…
Two witnesses with substantial military experience told a U.S. House subcommittee in no uncertain terms today that waterboarding is not only torture but an ineffective method of obtaining information from…
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is proposing a way to increase collegiality between public defenders and prosecutors: Put them in one office and make them occasionally switch sides,…
A Marine Corps lawyer has been told by his superiors that he may not testify before Congress about his decision to abandon a Guantanamo prosecution because of his concerns that…
The former chief lawyer for Samsung Group has filed a legal complaint with South Korean prosecutors that alleges a bribery scheme and cover-up by chairman Lee Kun Hee.
A private practitioner from Canada who represents a Guantanamo Bay detainee held since the age of 15 has reportedly been banned by his military co-counsel from the client’s upcoming arraignment…
A film to be released this Friday called American Gangster features Denzel Washington as a drug kingpin and Russell Crowe as the prosecutor who put him behind bars.
An American Lawyer investigation of the Justice Department’s corporate fraud prosecutions shows a “precipitous decline” in major corporate fraud investigations since President Bush was re-elected.
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