A high-profile Boston criminal defense lawyer was in the hot seat himself Wednesday as the government began presenting its side of a money-laundering conspiracy trial against attorney Robert “Bob” George…
The Massachusetts Bar Association’s Task Force on the Law, the Economy and Underemployment released a report last week exploring the causes of and solutions for underemployment of law school graduates.
A Massachusetts disciplinary matter concerning the handling of an attorney’s divorce has resulted in a legal ethics trifecta: The counsel who handled the divorce has been reprimanded, the attorney client…
Rejecting a hearing panel’s reprimand recommendation, the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers has declined to discipline a former associate of a Boston law firm who had complained that the firm…
Under investigation concerning a claimed pro-criminal-defendant bias during his 21 years on the bench, a Massachusetts state-court judge is challenging the authority of the Commission on Judicial Conduct to probe…
The Massachusetts Appeals Court has upheld a judge’s summary contempt ruling concerning a lawyer who was sentenced to 90 days after diatribing at length in court when jury selection didn’t…
Prosecutors plan to use two memoirs that may have been written by alleged mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger when he is tried on charges of participating in 19 murders.
Although handcuffed and wearing leg irons, a Massachusetts criminal defendant reportedly swung his arms and knocked a court officer down on Monday afternoon as he was being led from Plymouth…
A grandson of one of the lawyers who helped Lizzie Borden win an acquittal in an infamous ax-murder trial nearly 120 years ago has donated the attorney’s trial journals to…
In the latest example of a law firm burned after apparently failing to confirm a worker’s credentials, the Legal Profession Blog is reporting that a Massachusetts…
A Massachusetts lawyer told a judge last Thursday that he should have heeded the advice of the state Board of Bar Examiners, which had warned him not to start a…