29159 ABA Journal States articles.
Updated: A federal judge in San Diego has removed Mark Geragos from representing a defense contractor in a CIA fraud case, because the high-profile California defense lawyer refused to submit…
Jul 10, 2007 6:35 PM CDT
Criminal courts in the Chicago area are expected to operate in slow motion today, as up to two-thirds of the 520 prosecutors in Cook County’s felony courtrooms take the day…
Jul 10, 2007 6:00 PM CDT
The upcoming execution of a man who says he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer has drawn international attention.
Courts have refused to allow death-row inmate Troy Anthony…
Jul 10, 2007 5:26 PM CDT
It isn’t just defendants and jurors who have been pushing their luck lately by blogging about their case while it is at trial. An attorney representing an alleged mobster in…
Jul 10, 2007 1:06 AM CDT
John Luke Hill Jr., a Houston trial lawyer who went on to become Texas attorney general, secretary of state and chief justice of the state supreme court, died today of…
Jul 10, 2007 12:07 AM CDT
In the latest chapter of a sad story that could soon be commonly told throughout the country, an increasing rate of mortgage foreclosures in and around Atlanta is creating a…
Jul 9, 2007 11:22 PM CDT
In recent years, the California officials have increased the amount of money they spend to locate dormant assets that the government can seize. But they’ve decreased the amount of money…
Jul 9, 2007 10:28 PM CDT
A New Jersey man jailed for 22 years after being convicted of murdering his former girlfriend’s two children has been freed and will not face new charges after a DNA…
Jul 9, 2007 9:15 PM CDT
After three years of hard work, the nation’s newly graduated law students aren’t done with their studies yet. The vast majority are still buried in the books as they put…
Jul 9, 2007 8:27 PM CDT
It has been some 30 years since thousands of banana workers in Central America claim to have been exposed to carcinogenic pesticides on plantations there. Intended to kill worms infesting…
Jul 9, 2007 6:00 PM CDT
Police fighting gang crimes in Trenton, N.J., are stymied by witnesses who are too afraid to come forward.
At least 20 people were present during a gang gunfight more than…
Jul 9, 2007 5:29 PM CDT
New York is installing a surveillance system designed to capture terrorists that rivals the one used in London.
The city plans to install more than 100 live-transmission cameras by the…
Jul 9, 2007 3:30 PM CDT
A former legal aid lawyer in New York has been charged with using secret cameras to spy on five female co-workers in their offices, taping one woman who was undressing.
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A pending indictment and a continuing feud with judges isn’t fazing controversial Michigan attorney Geoffrey Fieger.
He remains on the attack, vowing to appeal a recent ruling reinstating a formal…
Jul 9, 2007 2:52 PM CDT
A New Jersey ethics opinion gives a boost to law firms that invest in outside businesses.
The private opinion, made public in the July 2 edition of New Jersey Lawyer,…
Jul 9, 2007 2:14 PM CDT
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