Updated: Last year, a Boston municipal judge fended off an ethics complaint spearheaded by the Suffolk County district attorney’s office, which complained that he was biased in favor of criminal…
Updated: An intellectual property “super-boutique” based in Houston has opened a new office in Boston with seven lawyers from a smaller counterpart there.
After a week of deliberations, a Boston jury has been told to start their discussions anew in the case of a man charged with killing three adults and a small…
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review a federal appeals court decision finding it unconstitutional to enforce an Illinois state law that makes it a felony to videotape police…
After a prosecutor noticed that a man in the jury pool had made eye contact with a defendant in a Massachusetts gang-rape case, authorities apparently watched Jonathan G. Ngarambe closely.
Boston-based Choate Hall & Stewart has raided Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, announcing Tuesday that the BigLaw firm’s entire private client practice group, headed by four partners, will be…
The top court in Massachusetts has agreed to decide whether public schools are violating state equal protection guarantees by requiring students to recite the words “under God” in the Pledge…
Still proclaiming his innocence, a high-profile criminal defense lawyer convicted earlier this year in a $200,000 money-laundering conspiracy for which prosecutors said he earned $20,000 was sentenced Wednesday to a…
Updated: As what is expected to be an epic storm sweeps into the East Coast from Florida to Canada and could hit the Northeast especially hard, courts and law firms…
Two descendants of a Massachusetts judge who is known for the role he played in the Salem witch trials of 1692 say he had good qualities which they hope will…
Two weeks of special court sessions began Monday in Boston to deal with inmates serving time in state cases based on drug evidence provided by an alleged rogue chemist at…
It isn’t just thousands of state court cases that have been thrown into a state of uncertainty by problems at a Massachusetts facility that tests drug samples used to prosecute…
Updated: A Massachusetts legal publication asked the general counsel for the state’s Board of Bar Overseers whether professor professor Elizabeth Warren could possibly be involved in unauthorized practice of law…
Jury selection is set to begin Monday morning in the case of a University of Alabama Huntsville professor accused of shooting three colleagues in 2010.