Many states are facing a crisis in public defense because of low pay, excessive caseloads, frequent burnout and a “great resignation” of qualified attorneys that began during the pandemic and shows no signs of ebbing.
Since being appointed to the bench in 2019, federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who sits in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Amarillo, has become known for rulings affecting efforts to ensure minors’ access to birth control and expand LGBTQ+ rights. How does one judge end up handling so many high-profile cases?
The National Institutes of Health violated the First Amendment when it used keyword filters that blocked Facebook and Instagram comments that criticized animal testing, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has settled a race and disability lawsuit filed by a Black former partner who cited remarks in emails by two partners who hired him.
Judiciary employees filed 161 complaints alleging wrongful conduct over three fiscal years beginning in 2020, and 17 of those complaints concerned judges, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office released Tuesday.
A mother who heard her daughter’s car crash while giving her directions by cellphone is entitled to recover for emotional distress, even though she wasn’t aware of the defendants’ alleged role in causing the accident, the California Supreme Court ruled last week.
Lawyers defending Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, say they misused just one word in a motion to dismiss a special counsel’s tax evasion case, and they are not deserving of sanctions.
Just months before our country’s next presidential election, defending democracy and protecting the rule of law will lead the agenda at the 2024 ABA Annual Meeting.
A 76-year-old retired lawyer in Arlington, Virginia, lost about $740,000 in retirement savings to sophisticated scammers who led him to think that he was helping the federal government catch thieves trying to gain access to his retirement and bank accounts.
Updated: A federal appeals court has affirmed an attorney fee sanction of nearly $12,000 against a Chicago lawyer accused of misleading the court when she denied intentionally pushing an opposing counsel following a “tense” deposition in July 2017.
The former chief financial officer of McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter was sentenced to five years in state prison Friday for embezzling more than $1.5 million from his law firm and evading state income taxes.
The Michigan Supreme Court has granted a new trial to a woman convicted of killing her infant daughter by shaking her, holding that proposed expert testimony on shaken baby syndrome would likely result in an acquittal.
As the Missouri Department of Correction was finalizing Christopher Dunn’s release papers Wednesday, the warden got the call. The state Supreme Court had halted the release order after the state attorney general appealed to keep him in prison.