As 1996 neared an end, Chad Wold’s life course seemed set. The recent law school graduate was getting settled in Montana, where he was about to get married and study…
The state attorney general of Oregon announced today an agreement under which a law firm has been closed and one of its name partners agreed to give up his license…
A Kentucky lawyer has pleaded guilty to paying more than $57,000 to a former sheriff for drug client referrals and favorable treatment of the defendants.
A conservative lawmaker in Arizona has introduced several bills that would change the state’s merit selection process for appellate judges and for trial judges in its two most populous counties.
A Los Angeles County judge was speaking to lawyers in an off-the-record session last summer when he made what he considered a joking remark that has now landed him in…
Terri Ann Hauge had her license to practice law suspended in 1995. But that didn’t prevent the former Minnesota attorney from getting a large guardianship business up and running, along…
A Louisiana personal injury lawyer who operated an “attorney incubator” for fledgling practitioners has had his business model shot down by the Internal Revenue Service.
Cristian Gheorghiu has only paid about $5,000 of the $28,000 in fines he got after being convicted of being one of the most prolific graffiti taggers in Los Angeles.
A defense lawyer says a “tainted” case should be dismissed against a sergeant accused, along with five other current or former New Orleans police officers, in the killing of civilians…
Media observers have been complaining that a recent $60,000 jury verdict over a blog post in Minnesota that linked an individual to a mortgage fraud threatens free speech rights. That’s…
A Minnesota nurse had been convicted of two counts of aiding suicide for encouraging depressed people in online chats to kill themselves and offering instructions on how to do it.
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