A New York prosecutor has dropped plans to retry a murder case based on new findings that a 13-year-old girl found dead 15 years ago died of a cocaine overdose…
A former Seattle labor lawyer convicted in an FBI sex sting has been sentenced to five years in prison for traveling to Oregon to meet a person he thought was…
The day after a federal judge gave William Lerach the maximum two-year prison sentence possible under a plea deal, a front-page Wall Street Journal profile reports that the once-mighty plaintiffs…
Law student Matthew Sinor of Ohio State law school had an early victory in his legal career. He interceded on behalf of an old Army buddy and persuaded a judge…
A once-mighty partner at the nation’s biggest and best-known plaintiffs securities firm was given a two-year federal prison sentence today for his role in an alleged law firm scheme to…
A disbarred New York attorney has reportedly pleaded guilty in the middle of a trial to assuming his deceased father’s identity and misrepresenting himself as a lawyer, in order to…
Four college buddies who spent nearly a year planning to rob a group of very rare and valuable books from a Kentucky university would have been better-advised to focus on…
In a discovery that has fanned fears that British inmates’ phone calls to their attorneys are routinely bugged, a lawyer in the U.K. reportedly has received transcripts of secretly recorded…
A federal judge in Houston is one step closer to approving a criminal plea deal by petroleum giant BP concerning a 2005 explosion at a Texas refinery that killed 15…
A “jailhouse lawyer” who helped a defendant challenge his cocaine sentence has seen a rare achievement: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case.
Securities class-action lawyer William Lerach hasn’t been shy about his opinions on issues such as sweetheart deals for corporate CEOs and the federal government’s…
New York’s attorney general is teaming up with social networking website on proposed legislation that would bar registered sex offenders from sites such as MySpace and Facebook.
Seattle-area prosecutors are looking into why a man, already labeled by the courts and mental health authorities as “dangerous,” was free at the time he is accused of following a…
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