A Chicago lawyer says her defense of death-penalty defendants has brought hate mail, but she was physically attacked because of her work in just one case—the Casey Anthony trial.
Updated: Casey Anthony should be thankful she is being sentenced in Florida state court, according to a law professor who is an authority on sentencing.
A Houston jury consultant who helped the defense select the jury for the Casey Anthony trial advised against putting parents with young children on the jury.
The hotel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has filed a libel lawsuit against the New York Post over its claim that she was a prostitute.
Corrected: A blind student at Vermont Law School has filed a federal lawsuit against the National Conference of Bar Examiners, seeking permission to use the same screenreader software she relies…
Denied entry to the bar for years because of his handling of his personal finances and criticized by observers for taking a risky trial strategy in his first death-penalty defense,…
A jailed Russian lawyer who had accused government officials of corruption was chained to a cot and beaten by eight guards immediately before he died in 2009, according to a…
Legal malpractice claims are up in 2011, according to a survey of the insurance brokerages that provide three-quarters of the coverage to large and midsize law firms in this country.
Granting an emergency motion by the suspect in a Tucson, Ariz., mass shooting spree early this year, a federal appeals court has ordered prison officials not to forcibly administer anti-psychotic…
After deliberating for 10 hours, a Florida jury has reached a verdict in the first-degree murder case of Casey Anthony, who was accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, in…
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