A federal appeals court has ruled that an elderly widow can sue a law firm for unfair debt collection practices, even though the alleged wrongdoing occurred in communications between the…
Law school graduates taking the February bar exam in Oregon have learned in a letter from the state’s chief justice that they will be required to participate in a new…
A lawyer charged with dropping his pants while counseling two 19-year-old men on Friday says he exposed himself as part of a mentoring program to help at-risk youths.
As a tsunami of mortgage foreclosures and bankruptcies continues to sweep over many individuals who never thought they would ever be in this situation, a California lawyer feels his clients’…
A second onetime Ropes & Gray associate has pleaded guilty to making unauthorized use of confidential law firm client information in a wide-ranging insider-trading case in which certain individuals connected…
A Connecticut prosecutor has resigned, effective Feb. 1, after a probe of what the Connecticut Law Tribune describes as a possible “too-friendly relationship” with a defense…
A former police chief was acquitted today by a Springfield, Mass., jury in a high-profile criminal case brought over the death of an 8-year-old boy who accidentally killed himself in…
A New York money manager has been charged with threatening to kill 47 current and former securities regulators, including lawyers who worked on a lawsuit accusing him of running unregistered…
Apparently distraught about his divorce case, an armed man entered a South Florida courthouse this morning through an unsecured exit and demanded to speak with a judge while pointing the…
A Georgia lawyer has been accused of usury in a malpractice suit that claims he advised two clients to take out a loan at a 50 percent interest rate through…
Last year, a decision to cooperate with a filmmaker making a documentary about a $113 billion Ecuadorean environmental case cost plaintiffs’ counsel their attorney-client privilege.
A once-successful lawyer is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to accept his cert petition and reverse a child porn conviction stemming from an affair he had with his wife’s16-year-old sister…
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