The New Jersey Supreme Court in a 3-2 ruling has ordered the state schools to spend additional money on public education in poor school districts, an amount estimated to be…
A homeless nonlawyer in Washington State offered his legal services through a parental alienation group and a website, taking fees from at least two would-be clients, prosecutors say.
A former office manager for a Santa Ana, Calif., law firm was sentenced today to four years in prison for skimming $502,000 from the accounts of Tustin Rinos and Martin…
An 83-year-old New York defense lawyer has been indicted on a felony count of promoting criminal contraband after he allegedly smuggled a cellphone into the Monroe County jail that helped…
Apparently angry about being awakened by a noisy Arizona State University student, bankruptcy attorney and former prosecutor Daniel Gukeisen got into an argument with Garrett Hohn that escalated into a…
A former cheerleader for the Indianapolis Colts has sued the team alleging that it discriminated against her by firing her after she posed in racy photographs when it had not…
Are the criminal activities at big banks that led to the financial meltdown of 2008 simply too hard to prove? Or, because of relaxed government regulation in recent years, did…
Saying that allowing an alleged Mexican drug kingpin to be represented by the lead lawyer of his choice could create significant distraction and delay during trial, a federal judge in…
Over a decade ago, John Joe Gray got involved in an altercation with Henderson County sheriff’s deputies after a traffic stop, leading to a warrant for his arrest after he…
Although she hasn’t filed for divorce, Maria Shriver reportedly has retained celebrity attorney Laura Wasser. And she apparently has plenty of money to cover even the heftiest legal bill.
An Arizona judge last week gave a green light to a lawsuit seeking to force a well-known law firm to turn over copies of its bills for representing the Maricopa…
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