Lawyers for Britney Spears persuaded a California judge today to postpone a misdemeanor traffic case against the troubled pop star, saying that she isn’t able to participate fully in her…
A five-day jail sentence has been given to an aspiring journalist with a bad driving record who was at the wheel when author David Halberstam died last year in a…
Toronto lawyer Jerry Levitan may not have been a journalist when, at the young age of 14, he got an interview with John Lennon. But Levitan’s 40-minute audiotape is now…
The Florida Supreme Court criticized television’s “Judge Alex” in an opinion released yesterday, saying he should not have testified for a Miami man who survived torture and kidnapping.
A plaintiff in a suit against NFL star Reggie Bush walked out of a deposition yesterday because Bush’s lawyer was accompanied by an armed security guard.
Three unrepentant lawyers who changed careers and now create popular culture’s view of the profession—they write for TV’s Law & Order, Boston Legal and Shark—talked freely Friday afternoon about how…
A judge has refused to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed against TV psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw by two brothers questioned in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
Overturning an October ruling by a special master, a federal judge ruled today that fallen football superstar Michael Vick can keep a $20 million bonus that the Atlanta Falcons had…
Jerome Kerviel’s career in the securities industry appears to be at an end after the stunning news late last month that the junior trader allegedly cost one of France’s biggest…
An actor-turned-lawyer has written a 30-minute screenplay that imagines the deliberations of three military judges deciding whether to hold a Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant.
Actor Wesley Snipes was acquitted of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges in Ocala, Fla., Friday, but found guilty of three minor counts of failing to file a tax return.
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