A Colorado attorney working as a paralegal after his law license was suspended has been cleared of legal ethics allegations concerning correspondence he wrote on behalf of a client under…
A law student and Iraq war veteran at the University of California-Davis is reportedly a suspect in two on-campus sexual assaults last night near a bicycle path that led university…
Updated: Relying on unidentified sources, major news organizations are reporting that the U.S. Department of Justice has approved the pursuit of a possible criminal indictment against former presidential candidate John…
Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect in the slaying of Arizona’s chief federal district judge and the wounding of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords during a spree shooting earlier this year, has been…
A lawyer for 800 investors defrauded in Bernie Madoff’s stunning Ponzi scheme complains that trustee Irving Picard will be “richer than Madoff” once his law firm’s legal bills are paid.
A federal lawsuit filed in Michigan yesterday by a legally blind law school applicant contends that the American Bar Association is discriminating against the blind and visually impaired in the…
The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that a man who had an affair with a married woman may assert a paternity claim to the child he conceived in the relationship.
A Chicago lawyer wants a judge to exclude a buxom woman from the opposing counsel’s table at an upcoming trial over a car dealership’s warranty on a used Cadillac.
A defense lawyer for Casey Anthony alleged in opening statements on Tuesday that Caylee Anthony died in an accidental drowning, and Casey’s dad covered it up.
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