Fighting to keep famed film director Roman Polanski from being extradited from Switzerland to face sentencing in a decades-old California child-sex case from which he fled following conviction, his lawyers…
Yale Law School is renowned for its rare book collection. But it also hopes to make a name for itself as the official repository of the U.S. Supreme Court bobbleheads.
The dean of the University of Idaho College of Law is condemning the “punks” responsible for hate speech directed at gay and liberal activists at the school.
Corrected: A Harvard Law School graduate accused of setting fire to a Sept. 11 chapel was so drunk he barely remembers being at the site on Halloween morning, his defense…
A Tennessee lawyer has been accused of misappropriating client funds while fighting a suspension in a disciplinary case involving similar alleged conduct.
Lawyer John Threadgill of Knoxville was charged Monday…
Ruling on a defendant’s argument that a so-called SLAPP law precluded a tort claim for alleged cyberbullying, a divided California appeals court has given the green light to the defamation…
The newest judge on Delaware’s Court of Chancery has taken the unusual action of removing lead plaintiffs counsel from a class action case, citing their “nonexistent” advocacy in the shareholder…
A Maryland judge who declared a break in an alleged batterer’s misdemeanor domestic violence trial so he could marry the defendant to the claimed victim and prevent her from testifying…
Although the economy seems to be improving, that may not be much comfort to law students who earned their degrees in 2009 in the midst of a global financial crisis…
After a fellow jurist admitted that he gave a confidential psychiatric report on an accused serial killer to an Ohio newspaper, the judge overseeing the case of murder defendant Thomas…
A Connecticut judge has dismissed an advertising complaint brought against Google by a New Haven personal injury firm, agreeing with the Internet search engine giant that the lawsuit should have…
A prosecutor trying a credit card theft case in New York City wound up doing double duty after a juror accused another member of the panel of stealing his own…
A five-lawyer team’s move from Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge to Sullivan & Worcester has doubled the size of the bankruptcy practice at the Boston-based midsize firm.
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