A Connecticut lawyer was sentenced yesterday to a year and a day in federal prison for falsifying documents to help a client along the path toward legal residency.
A federal appeals court has rejected a claim that U.S. District Judge Manuel Real should be booted from the resentencing of a conspiracy defendant because lawyers are too afraid of…
A former southern Illinois lawyer and Democratic power broker has accepted a plea deal in a cocaine case that calls for a six-year federal prison sentence and $525,000 in financial…
Two former Colorado prosecutors who didn’t turn over potentially exculpatory information to the defense in a first-degree murder case have been censured for their role in sending a man who…
John Lambert was in the Cook County Jail because he was an addict. And, thinking that he couldn’t abuse drugs or alcohol while he was there, his family didn’t bail…
A Justice Department sentencing memorandum claims disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff defrauded his employer, Greenberg Traurig, by asking clients to pay fees to different organizations.
Updated: A judge who oversaw the death penalty trial of Charles Dean Hood and the prosecutor in the case have admitted an affair, lawyers told the governor of Texas in…
There’s no word about what was said at depositions yesterday and today of a former prosecutor and a retired judge accused of having had an affair more than a decade…
A former legal assistant who pleaded guilty earlier this year to fraud and forgery in connection with the misappropriation of $1.4 million from a major Canadian law firm’s accounts was…
A federal judge in Santa Ana, Calif., has tossed a plea deal that involved a hefty fine but no jail time in the backdating case against Broadcom co-founder Henry Samueli.
Former lawyer William Lerach, serving time for paying kickbacks to lead plaintiffs in securities class actions, is now accused of offering another kind of incentive, this time to a prison…
Charles Dean Hood is scheduled to be executed Wednesday. But first his lawyers will be allowed to depose a former prosecutor and retired judge accused of having an affair during…
“There was no extortion. No lavish vacations. No gambling debts. No drug addiction. Instead, a former partner in a major Maine law firm stole more than $300,000 simply because he…
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