Lawyers for Britney Spears persuaded a California judge today to postpone a misdemeanor traffic case against the troubled pop star, saying that she isn’t able to participate fully in her…
Have you eliminated all metadata from electronic documents you send to opposing counsel? Do you look for metadata in the documents you receive? And, in both cases, does your approach,…
A state commission on judicial conduct has recommended removal from office for a New York municipal jurist who jailed 46 people in what it terms “two hours of inexplicable madness”…
Lawyers are increasingly checking out social networking websites such as Facebook.com and MySpace.com as they prepare for litigation, but two recent cases split on efforts to obtain and use such…
Conspiracy theorists, fasten your seat belts. A document found with other items about a year ago in an old safe in a Dallas courthouse bolsters the theory that President John…
The U.S. Supreme Court may create another exception to the exclusionary rule when it decides a case accepted yesterday involving a man who was mistakenly…
Texas lawyers confided to the Houston Chronicle that they wear lucky shoes, watches and ties; use lucky briefcases; listen to lucky music; and make lucky charitable donations.
A New York appeals court has ruled attorney-client privilege does not protect documents requested by two former executives for American International Group Inc.
A lawsuit by disgruntled students against the American Justice School of Law has been settled with the help of a physician’s agreement to purchase a controlling percentage of the institution…
A traditional taboo against suing banks among big-league United Kingdom law firms is rapidly losing its power as legal eagles there and abroad rev their engines in anticipation of a…
Arguing her position pro se, a woman has persuaded a Suffolk County, N.Y., judge not to allow a Manhattan law firm to bow of out her ongoing medical malpractice case.
A San Francisco attorney is facing potential disbarment because while serving on a jury in 2004, he reportedly cast the deciding vote to end a deadlock simply so that he…
Embattled Houston District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal has agreed to resign to stop an investigation into improper use of office computers. His resignation letter says his judgment was…
In a recent discussion of leading plaintiffs firms filing class actions related to the subprime mortgage crisis, what Wall Street Journal Law Blog described as “San Diego-based…
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