The theme of underfunded courts continued Monday morning in the ABA House of Delegates with the president of the Conference of Chief Justices telling the policymaking body that “the fiscal…
Lawyer Patrick Rocchio didn’t mince words in writings and testimony contesting a disciplinary matter in Indiana, calling the discipline system “a hideous aberration of justice” and the ethics rules “frivolous…
A midsize Minneapolis firm has raided the biggest law firm in Austin, Texas, departing with an eight-attorney group that will help Bowman and Brooke establish a new office there. The…
Although he is still in coma, a former law student viciously attacked and stuffed into the trunk of a BMW he was trying to sell in New York last month…
Telling a federal judge she was truly sorry and would never make the same mistake again, a 36-year-old New Jersey legal assistant was sentenced to probation instead of prison for…
Having already tripled its attorney roster in Louisville, Ky., since opening an office there two years ago, Fisher & Phillips is looking to hire more attorneys…
Rejecting a Pennsylvania judge’s argument that the state’s highest court lacked the power to suspend her with pay prior to a hearing on the merits of its case against her,…
The newest judge in one of the nation’s most respected corporate courts is unusually outspoken about what he calls “the darker underside” of securities class actions and his opinion of…
A defense psychiatrist has concluded that a Florida murder defendant killed his 83-year-old father during a psychotic break fueled by Red Bull and sleep deprivation.
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