Sued last month by a former staff attorney who claimed Covington & Burling maintained its staff attorney ranks as a ghetto for minority attorneys, the law firm didn’t hesitate to…
A lawyer has asserted his Fifth Amendment right not to testify in a pretrial hearing concerning a former New York judge who is accused of seeking money from a lawyer…
After reviewing DVDs of exotic dancers, an administrative law judge has determined that pole dancing is “no small feat”—and it’s also art qualifying for a tax exemption.
Houston lawyer Dick DeGuerin is going on the offensive as he takes on a new client—billionaire R. Allen Stanford, accused of running an $8 billion Ponzi scheme.
In the news last month when he complained that authorities had searched his law office, a Long Island criminal, matrimonial and real estate attorney now has additional trouble on his…
Observers predicted earlier that as many as 100 of the lawyers working at dissolving WolfBlock might wind up at another Philadelphia-based law firm, Cozen O’Connor.
A former New York art dealer is now included among an elite group of alleged white-collar master manipulators recently accused of defrauding others of monster sums.
In the latest chapter in an ongoing state-court corruption saga in Pennsylvania, a state supreme court ruling today is expected to reverse perhaps as many as 1,200 juvenile court convictions…
A motorist who flipped off a police officer and received a disorderly conduct ticket has won a ruling that his gesture was protected by the First Amendment.
After news this week that a former top drug prosecutor in the Detroit area—along with a former local judge and two cops—had been criminally charged for allegedly helping present perjured…
A Pennsylvania judge removed from the bench will get a chance to make her case that she was kicked off the bench because of a conspiracy by two judges who…
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