For those striving to make a positive impression in legal jobs over the summer, simply avoiding negative attention can be a significant career enhancer, a consultant recommends.
A former associate can’t seek punitive damages from a law firm that allegedly misstated his partnership potential for years to keep him working on an important case and then terminated…
A suspended Washington state lawyer convicted of theft for allowing jail inmates to use her attorney phone privileges to make more than 900 free calls has been sentenced to community…
Two employees of a Washington state immigration law firm are accused of pocketing $130,000 that they persuaded clients to give them in cash, supposedly to speed the clients’ cases along.
In a new racketeering indictment that reads like the latest John Grisham legal thriller, an imprisoned New Jersey criminal defense attorney is now accused of additional crimes, including witness tampering…
Corrected: A California lawyer and a Rialto police officer have been taken into custody and charged with bribery after allegedly arranging for a client of attorney Lawrence Anthony Witsoe to…
A shooting spree last week in and around Yuma, Ariz., focused on an angry ex-husband’s former wife, lawyer and friends who supported her, according to police investigators and court records.
After news that three co-defendants of a jailed New Jersey criminal defense lawyer have struck deals with the feds, observers are wondering whether attorney Paul Bergrin, 55, is cooperating, too.
A 62-year-old divorce lawyer reportedly shot to death in his Yuma, Ariz., law office this morning represented the ex-wife of the man authorities say was responsible for Jun 3, 2011 12:17 AM CDT
An attorney who allegedly obtained confidential information over a 17-year period while working at three major law firms before being charged earlier this year in an insider-trading case that allegedly…
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