The trauma center chief at Tampa General Hospital in Florida pleaded no contest today to two misdemeanor charges concerning a bullet he removed from a suspect during surgery in April.
The presiding judge of the highest criminal appeals court in Texas is expected to testify on her own behalf in a hearing that begins today. At issue is whether Judge…
Two former Kentucky lawyers will be sentenced today for their conviction on charges they kept nearly $95 million from a massive fen-phen settlement that was supposed to be paid to…
The fallout continues today concerning a Maryland judge who admittedly deflated a court worker’s car tire in response to her alleged inappropriate use of La Plata courthouse parking.
Upping the ante in a rash of admitted or alleged embezzlements by law firm administrators recently, a former bookkeeper has been accused of stealing $150,000 from a Virginia Beach legal…
The 72-year-old owner of a New York City restaurant supply store who made headlines yesterday when he shot two alleged would-be robbers to death and wounded two more, says he…
Unbeknownst to her California law firm, a longtime office administrator gave herself a $30,000 annual pay raise and better benefits by altering records on its computer, stealing some $1.3 million…
A lawyer’s ad for traffic court representation displayed on the website for the court clerk in Chicago’s Cook County is drawing lots of attention—from fellow practitioners.
Recent law school graduate Bobbi-Sue Doyle-Hazard has discovered a sad reality as she works as a waitress at a Boston steak restaurant and goes on interviews for jobs at small…
Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia are competing to prosecute accused high-profile terrorists housed at Guantanamo, but local leaders in Alexandria, Va., have…
A Maryland judge who admittedly deflated a courthouse worker’s car tire on more than one occasion has resigned from his role as chief administrative judge of the Charles County Circuit…
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