Former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, now of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, was appointed yesterday to oversee efforts to diversify the New York Fire…
The number of would-be students seeking admission to the new University of Massachusetts School of Law is about double the number who applied last year before the school’s new incarnation.
People on a sports fishing boat four miles off of Long Beach in California found the body of an Irell & Manella partner on Wednesday who had gone missing after…
William Barnes has already served 16 years in prison for shooting and paralyzing a police officer in 1966. Now, as a result of a jury verdict on Monday, the 74-year-old…
The rats kept scurrying through Idrissa Munu’s home in Washington, D.C., for several years, even after he killed three with a baseball bat and took them in a plastic bag…
Updated: Forget cupcakes and cookies, a culinary alternative-career option that has offered the sweet taste of success to a growing number of enterprising law school graduates.
An Ohio lawyer and a Florida business executive have been criminally charged in New York in connection with an alleged $60 million scheme to steal from a Manhattan public holding…
A former administrative assistant at American University’s Washington College of Law is scheduled to be sentenced in September to stealing nearly $400,000 from the school.
Forced to choose between her job and speaking on radio talk shows and at Tea Party events, a Florida prosecutor was fired this week after she refused to give up…
Lawyers and others are planning a series of summer events to wish a Happy 50th Birthday to a famous book that revolves around a Southern trial and the small-town lawyer…
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