A Mississippi attorney convicted of conspiring to influence a judge in a major judicial bribery case has been sentenced to three years in federal prison.
The economic crisis may be doing what pastors, family therapists and matrimonial counselors have long struggled to accomplish: keeping troubled marriages together.
Hundreds of lawyers are rallying in major Pakistani cities and disrupting traffic.
No criminal prosecutions are planned for former Justice Department officials accused of allowing politics to influence the hiring of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday.
The American Bar Association is calling on the next president and Senate to reduce partisan tensions in federal judicial nominations.
The largest lawyers' group in the United States is developing a nation-by-nation comparison of which citizens can trust their government to act fairly and which governments fall short.
Some high-profile friends are seeking leniency for a well-known attorney who took on tobacco, asbestos and insurance companies before he pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a state judge.
The nation's largest immigration law firm is under federal scrutiny over whether it helped major U.S. corporations disqualify American job applicants and give thousands of high-paying positions to immigrants.
A top leader of Pakistan's lawyers movement on Tuesday brushed aside concerns that terrorists might attack protesters demanding the reinstatement of judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf.
Mainland Chinese lawyers known for defending rights have been unable to get their licenses renewed ahead of an annual deadline, a Hong Kong group said Friday.
Lawyers working in China face increasing difficulties, including harassment and intimidation, by the ruling Communist Party, a leading human rights group said in a report Tuesday.
They don't know where they're staying. They don't know if there's a courtroom large enough to hold them all. And they don't know who their clients are.
Lawyers Kym Worthy and Dan Webb are a pair of ferocious competitors in the courtroom. That's both good news and bad news for the mayor.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers said they are assembling teams of civilian attorneys to help defend some of the most notorious terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
The Mississippi Supreme Court suspended a prominent judge Friday who is being investigated for his role in a dispute over fees involving attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs.
The last defendant in the bribery case that brought down powerful plaintiffs' attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs — his son — pleaded guilty Friday in a deal with federal prosecutors that could keep him out of prison.
Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, the legendary trial lawyer who made Big Business tremble every time he set foot in court, pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to bribe a judge — a crime that could send him to prison and spell the end of his storied legal career.
In a story profiling lawyers involved in the federal prostitution investigation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, The Associated Press reported that one of his lawyers, Michele Hirshman, won a conviction of former Rep. Robert Garcia on extortion charges related to the Wedtech Corp. scandal in the early 1990s. The story should have noted that both Garcia's convictions in the Wedtech case were reversed on appeal.
A prominent attorney embroiled in a judicial bribery case paid two associates $500,000 to convince Mississippi's Attorney General not to file criminal charges against an insurance company, according to court records.
Immigrants seeking legal status in the United States are being victimized with disturbing frequency by lousy lawyers, a federal appeals panel said Wednesday.
Beatrice Mayo practiced law in Maine for more than half a century before retiring in 1994. But she never spent a day in law school.
A Mississippi judge disqualified himself from hearing a lawsuit to avoid "the appearance of any impropriety" just days before one of the plaintiff's attorneys pleaded guilty to conspiring to influence him in another case involving powerful lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs.
A Mississippi judge who ruled in favor of Richard "Dickie" Scruggs in a dispute over legal fees was told by a friend that siding with the prominent lawyer could mean consideration for the federal bench, prosecutors allege in court papers unsealed this week.
A former state official pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with prominent attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and others to attempt to bribe a state court judge.
Two members of a law firm that was searched by federal agents last month have resigned as defense attorneys in the high-profile bribery case involving wealthy lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs. Now a third lawyer in the case is asking to do the same.