Mass torts expert Kenneth Feinberg, in the news for overseeing the BP fund to compensate Gulf oil victims, once believed that lawyers accused of bilking their…
At least three jurors who acquitted a Cleveland teen are so angry about the prosecution that they plan to give the defendant their $100 jury pay if he obtains a…
An Ohio judge who hung a new Ten Commandments poster in his courtroom after losing a legal battle over the first didn’t fare any better the second time around.
Corrected: Named in an arrest warrant after allegedly shooting another man to death on Monday night, trial attorney Richard F. “Richie” Dodelin was at his home in Columbus, Ga., yesterday…
Faced with a $4.2 million claim by a deceased name partner’s widow, a Florida-based asbestos law firm has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy seeking respite.
An Ohio lawyer serving as an expert witness appropriately became a defendant in criminal and civil cases when he created child pornography by digitally altering stock photo images of children…
A onetime lawyer who was disbarred in 1992 cannot use the initials “JD” after his name because his apparent intent was to convince others that he was a licensed attorney,…
A lawyer charged with dropping his pants while counseling two 19-year-old men on Friday says he exposed himself as part of a mentoring program to help at-risk youths.
Ohio State University law grad Hassan Jonathan Griffin of Columbus, Ohio, has a part-time job in the public defender’s office and no feasible plan to repay his law-school and credit-card…
A judge has settled a $50 million lawsuit that claimed an Ohio newspaper and its website should not have reported that her e-mail account was the source of anonymous online…
In his adjoining chambers, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Timothy McCormick couldn’t help but overhear the confab in a bailiff’s office about a problem facing his colleague, Judge Jose Villanueva.