In-house counsel who advise their employers in a given state, even when they are admitted to practice only in another state, ought to be required to register with the state…
In an unusual situation that attracted both prosecutors and defense lawyers as courtroom spectators, veteran criminal defense lawyers in two separate cases in Baltimore were asked to explain themselves in…
A New York judge has allowed a suit against Schulte Roth & Zabel that claims the law firm helped the co-founder of a startup breach his fiduciary duty to the…
Two assistant U.S. attorneys told a judge on Friday that they are facing ethics probes for encouraging an ex-assistant sheriff to secretly record his onetime boss, former Orange County Sheriff…
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey will give his first—and no doubt only—address to the ABA House of Delegates on Tuesday during the association’s annual meeting in New York City. The…
In the 1990s, a reference to Kaye Scholer became shorthand for the power of federal regulators to punish law firms for misleading tactics in their representation of a client, in…
A retired Georgia judge who stepped down from the 2005 Atlanta courthouse killings case told an ABA panel today that prosecutors are partially to blame for high costs and delays…
Updated: Former senator and 2004 vice-presidential candidate John Edwards has reportedly admitted an extramarital affair about which he had previously lied.
The personal injury lawyer admitted that he had an…
A jury will decide whether a veteran Maryland defense lawyer tried to get a prosecution witness to change his testimony in a murder case, because “there is enough there” that…
A Pennsylvania nonprofit that claims it was overbilled by Reed Smith in a routine employment discrimination defense that was originally estimated at $50,000 and eventually racked up…
Lawyers who have been serving as standby counsel for the man who killed an Idaho family so he could kidnap and sexually abuse two children are being compelled by a…
Some 30 friends and family members attended a Tuesday sentencing hearing for a former Billings, Mont., attorney, supporting the man they knew as a devoted family man and warmhearted community…
Updated: An embattled Nevada judge was reportedly shouting “no!” during a Las Vegas disciplinary hearing yesterday, and planned to be in federal court today seeking a temporary restraining order to…
The American Bar Association is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the due process clause limits a judge’s ability to hear a case after receiving substantial contributions from…
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