The wife of a retired Pennsylvania judge serving a federal prison sentence for insurance fraud is appealing a court order requiring that their home be forfeited to help pay restitution…
A United Kingdom regulatory agency has issued a warning about a purported New York-based legal partnership that appears to be fictitious, as least as far as practicing law is concerned.
A Wisconsin law firm and one of its lawyers are facing a lawsuit claiming they revealed the results of a reality show’s martial arts competition, compromising the show and its…
A Connecticut lawyer is facing possible prison time of perhaps six months after pleading guilty in federal court in Bridgeport to omitting information from a mortgage form in a real…
At first, it was former clients of Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs & Shapiro who wanted binding arbitration to settle a dispute over the legal fees they were charged.
Eric Lindell was never a particularly good student, although he excelled in basketball and track in high school. In law school, only the opportunity to try cases as an intern…
A Kansas attorney has been temporarily suspended from law practice after pleading no contest last week to felony charges related to a fatal collision with a bicyclist last year.
A judge in southern Georgia is speaking out after a critical episode of the popular public radio program This American Life called into question her drug court procedures.
A disbarred Florida lawyer whose biological and adoptive fathers were both well-known in Palm Beach County has reportedly decided to plead guilty as his trial was about to begin today…
Corrected: A veteran Boston municipal court judge known as “Judge Let Me Go” is coming under scrutiny for being overly lenient, prompting a local district attorney to wage an unusual…
A federal judge is investigating whether jurors who voted to send a confessed killer to death lied on their jury questionnaires and by doing so tainted the verdict.
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