A law grad who passed the Massachusetts bar exam in 2008 was initially deemed qualified for a law license, until three lawyers contacted the Board of Bar Examiners to report…
Locke Lord’s Boston office has lost dozens of lawyers acquired as a result of a January merger with Edwards Wildman Palmer, according to a published report.
The involuntary manslaughter case against a Massachusetts teenager accused of encouraging her boyfriend to commit suicide will proceed, a judge has ruled.
Juvenile Court Judge Bettina Borders, in an order…
Judy Clarke helped keep high-profile murderers including child-killer Susan Smith, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and Jared Loughner, who killed a federal judge in an Arizona shooting spree, off death row.
A federal judge in Boston has sentenced a Massachusetts lawyer to eight months of home confinement for trading on insider information gleaned form a golfing buddy.
The highest court in Massachusetts has upheld the state’s sex-trafficking law in an appeal that claimed the defendants were assisting consenting adult prostitutes rather than trafficking.
An expatriate American lawyer was stabbed to death Sunday at his home in Venezuela, in what his son, an attorney in the Miami office of White & Case, says may…
Massachusetts’ top court has overturned a law used to prosecute a PAC official for campaign brochures claiming a state lawmaker put the interests of criminals ahead of families.
An 11-year, 24/7 vigil at a Roman Catholic church outside Boston may be coming to an end, if Massachusetts appeals courts see the case the same way as the Archdiocese…
A Massachusetts lawyer who specializes in defense of operating-under-the-influence cases was indicted Wednesday, along with a former law student intern, in a Boston Harbor boating accident in which alcohol allegedly…
A man charged with disrupting his initial Massachusetts murder trial by threatening the jury and a witness and biting a Worcester Superior Court officer, will not have to proceed with…