Georgia’s Supreme Court disbarred (PDF) an Augusta, Ga., attorney today after a series of indiscretions that prompted disciplinary actions by the state bar and the federal court—including accepting $9,000…
A judge in Maine has upheld a jury’s verdict of $7.3 million for emotional distress to a former client who said the Bernstein Shur Sawyer & Nelson law firm worked…
When a murder trial last year that was expected to take four weeks continued nearly two weeks longer, putting a Nevada judge’s vacation at risk, the judge resolved the problem…
After testimony in a high-profile divorce case last year suggested that Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt could lose control of the team due to an apparent error by his…
A Seattle jury has awarded more than $46 million to a Bible college graduate who was left a paraplegic after a shooting at a Denny’s in Kent, Wash., that had…
Six federal judges have announced their retirements in the last six weeks, contributing to a growing number of judicial vacancies that are taxing some courts and delaying some trials.
The chief judge of Washtenaw County in Ann Arbor, Mich., had heard a lot about the so-called CSI effect—said to increase jurors’ expectations that technology can solve crimes with lightning…
Texas Wesleyan law dean Frederic White has written two books. The first is on Ohio landlord tenant law. The second, just released in December, tells of a suspicious death, law…
Even though she is 23 and married, Daniella Ormsby cried when she recalled the nine months she spent in a juvenile detention facility in Pennsylvania as punishment for missing a…
Northeast regional powerhouse McCarter & English has raided a Hartford, Conn.-based rival, Robinson & Cole, of seven attorneys—including three new partners who previously chaired their practice groups at their now-former…
The wife and alleged victim of a Texas lawyer accused of arranging, with his mistress, to target his spouse multiple times in a murder-for-hire scheme continued to stand by her…
After a pension board’s OK last month of a $3,000-a-month pension to a former Chicago police commander accused of playing a leading role in alleged widespread torture of suspects by…
Up against well-known national names in the caffeine trade, local coffee shops in Washington state have tried creative marketing approaches to distinguish themselves.
The Virginia Supreme Court was unanimous when it ruled last month that state judges can’t use a writ of error coram vobis to reopen the cases of immigrants who weren’t…
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