In seat 24B as US Airways Flight 1549 fell silently toward the Hudson River, attorney Frank Scudere did not know that his name was on the list of lawyers that his firm planned to lay off the next morning.
Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of a massive Ponzi scheme, has denied wrongdoing and asked a federal judge to free up some of his money so he can hire a lawyer.
The attorney accused of killing New York Knicks player Eddy Curry's ex-girlfriend and her infant daughter was an abusive, controlling boyfriend who disputed $23,500 in legal fees with his victim, prosecutors alleged Monday.
Ten days before the impeachment trial that could cost Gov. Rod Blagojevich his office, his team of defense lawyers said Friday they have withdrawn from the proceedings, which two of the attorneys compared to a "lynching."
A former Ohio lawyer who concocted a story about being kidnapped after a client accused her of taking his money has been sentenced to four years in prison for stealing.
A panel of judges has apparently made Washington the first state to rule that juvenile students accused of chronically cutting classes in public schools are entitled to a lawyer in their first court hearing.
New Orleans' district attorney is backing off the idea of his office filing for bankruptcy.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich has turned to one of Chicago's best known lawyers to defend him — a legendary courtroom bulldog whose roster of clients includes rock star R. Kelly and Canadian-born press lord Conrad Black.
A former Toledo, Ohio, lawyer who made up a story about being kidnapped after a client accused her of stealing his money has admitted she took $624,000 from about two dozen people.
Veteran defense attorney Robert Simels has represented the mobster immortalized in "Goodfellas," a drug kingpin with ties to hip hop and other notorious clients in his long career.
A North Dakota defense attorney and former federal prosecutor has pleaded guilty to stealing two hunting knives worth more than $125 each and assaulting a store employee who spotted one of the thefts.
A former federal prosecutor with a history of shoplifting was arrested Friday on charges that he stole a hunting knife from a sporting goods store and scuffled with employees.
A lawyer and former city councilwoman who made up a story about being kidnapped and driven to Georgia was sentenced Wednesday to two years on probation and was fined $300.
A man who punched his lawyer in a Kentucky courtroom last month has been sentenced to six months in jail.
A public defender who was punched in court by a disgruntled client said Thursday he doesn't blame the man who gave him with two black eyes.
The Justice Department attorney responsible for recommending presidential pardons has been transferred out of his office following accusations of mismanagement and racism.
An attorney convicted of destroying a church music director's computer containing child pornography has agreed to give up his law license for a year, attorneys said.
A pregnant attorney who police said made up a story about being kidnapped and driven from Ohio to Georgia pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of making false alarms.
An ex-prosecutor and former PTA president who is also the wife of a suburban police chief has been charged with having sex, smoking marijuana and drinking with high-school-age children.
The Texas Attorney General's office agreed Thursday to investigate whether a powerful prosecutor should lose his job for sending and receiving inappropriate messages through his county e-mail account.
The Second Amendment's provisions protecting the right to keep and bear arms apply only to the federal government, not the 50 states and the District of Columbia, lawyers for the nation's capital argued Friday in a written brief to the U.S. Supreme Court.
It started out as a joke — a lawyer putting a shark tank in his office. "I said, 'What would it take to put a shark in a lawyer's office?'", and it kind of took off from there, said attorney Christopher Gillette.
A former attorney for a prominent church was sentenced Monday to six months of home confinement for destroying the former music director's laptop computer, which contained child pornography.
A pregnant attorney who police said made up a story about being kidnapped was charged Friday with making false alarms.
An attorney and former city councilwoman was getting treatment after admitting she fabricated her tale of being kidnapped at gunpoint last week, her husband said Tuesday. Police said she probably will be charged with filing a false report.