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 Rod Blagojevich his office, his team of defense lawyers said Friday they have withdrawn from the proceedings, which two of the attorneys compared to a "lynching."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.
A teenager who punched an illegal Mexican immigrant who later died has cut a deal with federal prosecutors that could get him out of prison in four years.
Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown has told the California Supreme Court that Proposition 209, the anti-affirmative action measure passed by voters in 1996, violates the U.S. Constitution.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A debate over how to investigate Bush-era officials who authorized harsh interrogation tactics of terrorism suspects split Washington on Thursday, and Democrats squabbled over how to proceed
A former Tampa Bay area appeals court judge may face criminal charges after allegations that he took gifts, trips and loans from a stripper whose assets he's accused of trying to hide from creditors.
Officials have charged a 12-year-old boy with capital murder in the death of an 11-month-old baby.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — In wide-ranging remarks here, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended the use of foreign law by American judges, suggested that torture should not be used even when it might yield important information and reflected on her role as the Supreme Court's only female …
The first former Army soldier to be charged as a civilian under a 2000 law that allows him to be prosecuted for alleged crimes committed overseas faces a trial of his peers - in a federal courtroom in Kentucky.
A 73-year-old western Pennsylvania man was charged with killing his 73-year-old wife after authorities said he was upset by her decision to end their marriage of just a few weeks.
A Connecticut judge dropped murder charges Thursday against a New Britain man who served 20 years in prison after being convicted of killing his pregnant girlfriend.
Nadya Suleman, who appears on the cover of In Touch Weekly with six of her octuplets photographed together for the first time, tells the magazine that she is interested in a reality show as soon as all her babies are home.
Jennifer Hepner has been charged with driving under the influence and has been suspended from her duties. The Miss America Organization says she will retain her tiara until the next Miss Montana is crowned.
Jennifer Hepner has been charged with driving under the influence and has been suspended from her duties. The Miss America Organization says she will retain her tiara until the next Miss Montana is crowned.
Casey Anthony told a judge Wednesday that her agreement with an attorney who is defending her against accusations she killed her 2-year-old daughter does not allow him the rights to sell her story to collect legal fees.
Buying a property at an auction or foreclosure sale is often a sweet deal to an investor or buyer. However series of nightmare could be generated afterwards if the chain of title at some point involved a fraudulent transfer.
A jury convicted a 38-year-old man of murdering four children tossed from an Alabama bridge in 2008.
The Court system would have enough money if they looked for and changed wastefull practices of their employees. The state of California needs to terminate any employee that intentionally makes it looks like their 'busy', when they are actually doing very little work.
Haileigh Cummings mother has hired an attorney to try to gain custody of her son Junior. Crystal Sheffield who has not had custody of her children for several years is JUST NOW worried for her son! Why did it take so long I ask?
An East Stroudsburg man claims a local attorney held his wife's ashes hostage in a billing dispute. And for almost four years, he struggled to know if his deceased wife's cremation urns actually contained her remains.
An 89-year-old Ohio woman arrested for refusing to return a neighbor kid's football has dropped her lawsuit against the boy's parents. Edna Jester's attorney filed to drop the lawsuit on Monday.
An off-duty New York City police officer and three other men are accused of beating a man in an attack in which racial epithets were hurled at the victim.
Tina Meier, whose daughter Megan committed suicide after being victimized in a MySpace hoax, said that a neighbor accused of being behind the online taunts deserves the maximum sentence allowable by law.
In a surprising development in the Rihanna Chris Brown saga, latest reports suggest that the couple secretly tied the knot soon after their reconciliation in Miami.
So what's the best medicine for an altercation with your girlfriend and a potentially ruined career? Hitting the jet skis at Diddy's Miami house: See more Rihanna and Chris Brown stories
Pop star Rihanna was reported on Friday to have reunited with her R&B; singer boyfriend Chris Brown , less than three weeks after he was alleged to have assaulted her.