A Mississippi attorney has been sentenced by a federal judge to 6.5 years in prison and ordered to pay $5.8 million in restitution for pursuing baseless diet drug litigation on…
Judges in Massachusetts don’t qualify for workers’ compensation. So, after Paul Chernoff fell on some jagged steps at the Norfolk Superior Courthouse in Dedham and fractured his knee, the jurist…
A paraplegic man has filed a tort claim against a Southern California hospital, seeking damages for being dumped, without a wheelchair, on a local skid row in a condition in…
Three officers who once worked at the Drug Enforcement Administration in New York claim in a lawsuit that they were defamed by American Gangster, the film about a Harlem drug…
A defendant cruise line has filed motions seeking to disqualify a Miami plaintiffs firm from pursuing 75 pending claims by passengers and workers, contending that the Wingate Law Firm retained…
It’s a relatively common practice in the United States for trial lawyers to seek help from jury consultants when preparing arguments and selecting jurors. But the idea is still a…
Newly publicized details of a prominent Canadian lawyer’s alleged steamy affair with a client are prompting renewed questions about whether an existing legal ethics rule concerning conflicts of interest is…
A Washington state lawyer has filed a motion seeking a new trial in a medical malpractice case, saying that biased jurors mocked his Japanese heritage during closed-door deliberations and didn’t…
The punishment continues for a disbarred North Carolina prosecutor who lost his job and his law license after pursuing a meritless rape case against three members of the Duke University…
Updated: Federal investigators are expected to announce today that a design defect caused the collapse of a Minneapolis bridge last summer, killing 13 and injuring more than 100 in a…
Because four of seven justices on the California Supreme Court own stock in Lockheed Martin or companies that provided related materials, they can’t hear an appeal involving several dozen workers…
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