In a ruling that puts criminal defense lawyers for former employees of Bernard L. Madoff between a rock and a hard place, a federal judge has upheld the right of…
Saying that a federal judge was disqualified from issuing sanctions in a case that centered on his own alleged remarks showing a lack of impartiality, a federal appeals court has…
Ratcheting up a controversy that led to a popular journalism professor sitting on the sidelines rather than teaching at Northwestern University this spring, the school has just released a statement…
Arguing that the state of Pennsylvania should either pay private defense attorneys adequately for taking on court-appointed capital cases or abolish the death penalty, a group of lawyers has filed…
A former New Jersey prosecutor and chief municipal judge in the state’s biggest city has pleaded guilty to accepting a $3,500 payment in exchange for arranging for an innocent man…
When he was playing for the Sacramento Kings, it must have seemed like a good idea to Kevin Martin to purchase a California home for more than $1 million.
The owner of the New York Giants tried unsuccessfully yesterday to persuade a federal judge that the upcoming NFL draft took precedence over his work as a fourth alternate juror…
A former associate claims in a $1.3 million wrongful dismissal suit that he was forced out of a Canadian law firm after he alleged a drunken partner groped a law…
A New York lawyer has won a $150,000 settlement in his suit against a Brooklyn developer that claimed the living space in the condo he wanted to buy was 109…
A potential juror who made racist statements on her jury questionnaire was dismissed from the death penalty trial of an alleged mob boss on Tuesday, but she will still have…
The mother of a 7-year-old elementary school student has sued the Chicago Public Schools and her daughter’s teacher for allegedly posting the child’s photo on a Facebook page and publicly…
In the first of a series of expected worker lawsuits against Howrey, former staffer Stephanie Langley has filed suit against the law firm contending that it failed to meet its…
An attorney is suing Facebook and its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg for not promptly shutting down an embattled page that sought to incite violence against Jews.
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