A federal judge has OK’d a plan for the FBI to review computer records that a New Jersey lawyer says concern all of his clients for the past 15 years,…
A former Republican congressman and Department of Homeland Security undersecretary who is now at Venable in Washington, D.C., says he is planning to give up his partnership there in order…
With the departure of two San Francisco Bay area attorneys for other law firms, the total number of partners who have left Heller Ehrman this year now reportedly tallies at…
Ruling today that the Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office is too understaffed to handle most of the felony cases it is getting, a Florida judge said 60 percent must be handled…
Reinstated to the Wisconsin bar almost exactly one year ago, after he was given a six-month suspension for having sex with a client in one case and for having sex…
The courtroom scene was “highly unusual and very civilized” as a Texas federal judge proclaimed his innocence today in no uncertain terms on charges of abusive sexual contact and aggravated…
After 25 years of periodic dispute between a Greeneville, Tenn., law firm and a local Greene County judge, the situation has heated up to a point where the state supreme…
A Pakistani neuroscientist being held without bail in Brooklyn, N.Y., had documents suggesting possible plans for a U.S. attack when she was arrested in Afghanistan, according to an indictment announced…
A federal judge in San Francisco has found that Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison deliberately destroyed or withheld e-mail and failed to preserve tape recordings in an investor lawsuit.
A federal appeals court has ruled Monsanto Co. may not sell genetically altered alfalfa until a government environmental study determines whether the crop would contaminate farmers’ nearby fields.
The founders of Pennsylvania-based Kimmel & Silverman, the “1-800-Lemon-Law” firm, have been suspended from legal privileges in Maryland for failing to supervise a lawyer there unable to keep up with…
Updated: Lawyers for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick only had a half-hour this morning to stop a hearing by the state’s governor that could result in their client’s ouster from office.
Now 41, Robert Chambers Jr. became notorious decades ago. His murder trial and manslaughter plea, for what he claimed was the accidental strangulation of a young woman in 1986 during…
Updated: Just minutes after a state court refused today to block the Michigan governor’s planned hearing tomorrow over the possible ouster of Detroit’s embattled mayor, counsel for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick…
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