A New York City man facing robbery charges escaped from the 12th floor of a Manhattan courthouse during a pretrial hearing today by simply walking out, surveillance footage shows.
A Florida lawyer has accused the local sheriff’s office of an unethical and potentially criminal practice of secretly recording—and forwarding to its own legal counsel for review—jailhouse phone calls made…
A former consumer reporter for the Hartford Courant claims in a lawsuit that his free speech rights were violated when his job was eliminated before he could write a critical…
A former Paul Hastings associate who pleaded guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy in a $4.8 million insider trading scheme won’t have to go to jail.
A Texas lawyer briefly jailed for contempt after he refused to testify against his client has been acquitted under an agreement approved by a judge on Tuesday.
A former Massachusetts real estate lawyer and title company agent has pleaded guilty to criminal charges concerning what a prosecutor says was a “mortgage stacking” scheme in which he obtained…
Drug courts were created 30 years ago to offer offenders with substance abuse problems an alternative to jail. But now criminal defense lawyers say the drug courts need reform in…
Marc Dreier admits he had a lengthy track record of “cutting corners.” But it wasn’t until an apparent midlife crisis, precipitated by his divorce and a sense of failure, when…
In a ruling that a CBS spokesman called “a total victory,” a New York appeals court today reversed a trial judge and said former network anchorman Dan Rather’s breach of…
A federal judge in Washington state has agreed that the owners of a gun shop from which a rifle used in 2002’s fatal D.C. sniper shootings allegedly was shoplifted should…
A former lawyer for Toyota who claimed in a lawsuit that the automaker destroyed evidence is at the center of controversy over disclosures about his former employer.
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