A federal judge in Boston has ruled that the Massachusetts Department of Correction will have to pay legal fees for the plaintiff in a successful civil rights suit in which…
Ruling Tuesday in a seven-year-old civil rights suit in which a transgender prison inmate has been seeking to have the state of Massachusetts pay for sex-change surgery, a federal judge…
The top court in Massachusetts has upheld administrative decisions nixing a disability pension for a former superior court judge who won a $2.1 million libel verdict against the Boston Herald…
Two ex-wives who combined forces to track down Stephen Wayne Cantrell expressed joy Monday at news that a Massachusetts judge has nixed a state-approved plea deal that would have allowed…
It seemed like a routine pretrial hearing in the case of Cornell Smith until the handcuffed murder defendant suddenly, and for no apparent reason, attacked his own counsel in a…
Updated: The Middlesex District Attorney’s office announced that it has dropped misdemeanor larceny charges against a Massachusetts judge over alleged misrepresentations of the features of a combination crib-and-playpen set she…
In a series of rulings, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ratcheted up the requirements for obtaining a taxpayer-funded defense in criminal cases, the Associated Press…
A hard-fought legal battle over a Massachusetts company’s $1 million phone bill quickly racked up, at a rate of $22 per minute, by hackers calling Somalia, came to an abrupt…
A British drug manufacturer has agreed to pay $1 billion in criminal fines and $2 billion in civil fines and revamp its compliance procedures to settle wide-ranging allegations by U.S.…
Amidst reports nationwide of a decrease in applications that suggest law school may be becoming much more of a buyer’s market, a state university that’s already at the low end…
Partner Larry O’Bryan understands that the $10,000 a year his small Boston law firm wants to pay a new associate isn’t a big enough salary for most new law graduates…
A small Boston law firm that hit the headlines when it advertised a job for a new law graduate paying $10,000 a year got 32 applicants for the position, a…