Adding to the uncertainty created by a major mortgage servicer’s decision to call a temporary halt to foreclosures and related activity in 23 states, a…
Updated: Refused admission to the New York state bar in 2009 on character and fitness grounds because of a reported $430,000 delinquent student loan balance, Robert Bowman is trying again…
Due to a lack of credible evidence, the highest appeals court in Texas has thrown out the murder conviction of a man identified as a suspect in the crime solely…
It appears that attorney Granville Webster Burns simply didn’t see a fellow California lawyer when he drove into her as she was crossing a street on foot in Manhattan Beach.
An explosion of embarrassing news lately about claimed sexual and relationship misconduct by lawyers in positions of authority has cost two their careers.
A longtime Tennessee prosecutor has resigned, after…
Updated: The governor of Wisconsin promised in a press conference earlier this week to seek the removal of a controversial district attorney accused of harassing two women and asking a…
Eight current and former officials of the Los Angeles suburb of Bell were arrested Tuesday on charges of misappropriating more than $5.5 million in public funds.
Upping the ante in a hard-fought battle for control of Maricopa County, Ariz., that some observers fear has threatened the rule of law there, the county’s board of supervisors is…
As the new governor of New Jersey and state lawmakers deadlocked for months about filling a vacancy on the state’s highest court, its top judge finally took action.
Alerted by a state office that a New York lawyer had failed to file tax returns, authorities in Erie County initiated an investigation that eventually led to a guilty plea…
Seeking to strike a balance between legitimate prison security concerns and an inmate’s right to confer confidentially with his or her attorney, a federal appeals court in Chicago has ruled…
An embattled Wisconsin prosecutor is now being accused by a law student of sending her harassing text messages over a year ago, after he agreed to help her seek a…
A county prosecutor in Indiana is fighting an effort to force him off a triple-murder case, due to his involvement in a potential true-crime book deal prior to the defendant’s…
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