A California attorney who focuses his practice on mediation wanted his office to be a peaceful place where warring couples and others enmeshed in disputes would be inclined to relax…
A California court ordered a Santa Clara country judge to resentence Joseph Gerber, who was convicted in 2009 of possessing child pornography after pasting photos of his 13-year-old daughter’s head…
Dozens of reporters flooded a state office building in Juneau today to cart away banker’s boxes stuffed with nearly 24,000 pages of emails released by Alaska state officials from former…
After deliberating for more than two weeks, a California jury convicted 25-year-old Yusuf Bey IV on Thursday of three counts of first-degree murder for ordering the 2007 slayings of Oakland…
Michigan-based Varnum is donating up to $1 million in pro bono legal services over the next five years to help start-up and fledgling businesses in the state.
A prosecutor in the Public Integrity Division of the Los Angeles district attorney’s office is being criticized for asking a law firm representing witnesses in a criminal case to hire…
Although apparently too young to be charged with a crime, an unidentified 5-year-old girl is being investigated by Kansas City police as a suspect in what they are calling the…
A New Jersey lawyer has been suspended from practice for a year by the state supreme court an incident of domestic violence that also resulted in a 12-month jail term…
Initially charged with a felony for “keying” several badly parked cars in a downtown parking garage and leaving rude notes for their drivers, a Seattle lawyer tearfully pleaded guilty to…
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