Attorney General Michael Mukasey will be the first commencement speaker in some time at Boston College Law School who won’t receive its highest award, but he won’t be the last.
When officials at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art decided to litigate against artist Christoph Büchel over an incomplete commissioned piece, they probably didn’t realize what they were getting into.
In what is being hailed as a landmark ruling, a Massachusetts judge has prohibited a subprime mortgage lender from foreclosing on an entire class of “structurally unfair” loans there before…
Speculation over the past few years that an academic power couple at the University of Chicago Law School might be headed to Harvard apparently is half-right.
Two Massachusetts lawyers, including the former ethics counsel for two state governors, were disbarred today because of their aggressive investigation of a judge who ruled against their clients in 1995…
The MIT student charged with walking into an airport wearing a device feared to be a bomb is seeking dismissal of the charges on First Amendment grounds.
Citing a “genuine confusion” about what judges can say publicly about cases, Massachusetts’ highest court has assembled a committee to consider revising judicial conduct rules.
News of an apparent $400 million settlement that concludes a potential criminal case against the project manager of a controversial Boston tunnel project has sparked anger among Massachusetts residents.
Judges in Massachusetts don’t qualify for workers’ compensation. So, after Paul Chernoff fell on some jagged steps at the Norfolk Superior Courthouse in Dedham and fractured his knee, the jurist…
Advocates for victims targeted during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s by organized crime figures in Northeast who were aided by ties to the local FBI are expressing outrage about…
A Massachusetts appeals court has affirmed dismissal of a legal secretary’s disability lawsuit against Peabody & Arnold based on evidence turned up by a private detective.
Boston’s chief federal judge has written a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey criticizing the U.S. Justice Department for lax discipline of a federal prosecutor who withheld evidence and a…
A onetime lawyer who was named one of People magazine’s most eligible bachelors in 2001 goes on trial today for the first of three alleged attacks on women he met…
The escalator accident that left a 4-year-old’s hand severely injured, happened in China. But American jurors decided the case, this week awarding $3.35 million after a trial in Massachusetts.