Updated: A Minnesota lawyer has been sentenced to two days in jail for snorting cocaine in the Winona County Courthouse while defending a client in a terroristic threats trial.
For the second time in less than two months, a dedicated career prosecutor in a central California district attorney’s office has died unexpectedly, leaving his remaining colleagues and the local…
A longtime Fort Collins practitioner with a hitherto unblemished ethical record has been put on probation by a disciplinary arm of the Colorado Supreme Court after making a loan to…
Husband-and-wife Florida personal-injury lawyers Kathryn Fenderson Scott and Charles Scott practice law together and blog together. It’s the latter activity that spurred a lawsuit against them, filed by a marketing…
The attorney general’s office in Washington state is requiring the do-it-yourself document service LegalZoom to be a little more cautious when making cost comparisons.
As actress Lindsay Lohan herself reportedly admitted in a Twitter post over the weekend, she has failed a drug test while on probation in two drunken-driving cases.
Arent Fox doesn’t have any direct role in a $20 million wrongful death lawsuit filed against former partner Joseph Price by the widow of an attorney found slain at the…
An Idaho attorney is being held without bail in San Diego, Calif., where he also had an office, following a federal grand jury indictment last month on child-exploitation charges.
Updated: A Wisconsin prosecutor who admittedly sent 30 texts to a victim in a domestic violence case seeking a sexual relationship but says that shouldn’t prevent him from keeping his…
Avoiding a potential felony conviction, Paris Hilton has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors concerning an incident last month at a Las Vegas casino-hotel.
Although BigLaw firms in Washington, D.C., weren’t as hard-hit by the economic downturn as New York counterparts focused on banking and financial matters, many are still struggling to find solid…
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