Appeals Court Says Bruises Not Essential for Proving Child Abuse
On Tuesday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals released an opinion holding that bruises on a child aren’t...
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Former Kentucky Bar President Publicly Reprimanded
On Thursday, the Kentucky Supreme Court publicly reprimanded Barbara D. Bonar, a former Kentucky Bar...
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CitiBank Survey Shows Poor Economic Performance by D.C. Law Firms
Law firms in the District of Columbia are usually held to be in better footing than law firms in other parts...
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Real Estate Lawyer Disbarred for Forging Plan Acceptance Letters
A Brooklyn real estate lawyer, Eduard Fridman, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to forging condominium plan...
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ABA Opines Lawyers Can Share Fees with Non-Lawyers in Alternative Business Structures
This Monday, the ABA gave a historic ethics opinion: Formal Opinion 464: Division of Legal Fees With Other...
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ABA Technology Survey Shows More Lawyers Reluctant to Claim they are “Virtual”
According to the 2013 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report, the number of lawyers agreeing to describe their...
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Drunken Raleigh Lawyer Threw Urine on Police Officer’s Face
John Montgomery Holmes Jr., a reputed criminal defense and divorce lawyer from Raleigh, North Carolina, was...
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Oregon Court of Appeals Reverses Sodomy Conviction
Last week, the Oregon Court of Appeals overturned the sex abuse and sodomy conviction of a man, after it found...
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Federal Appeals Court Lets FBI off the Hook after It Lied to U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney
Cormac J. Carney was born in 1959 in Detroit, MI. He was raised in Long Beach, CA, where he attended St....
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Cuccinelli Comes Under Fire for Firing Government Attorney
On Friday, Samantha Vanterpool Rucker, an attorney who formerly worked in the office of the Virginia Attorney...
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Judicial Apathy Costing Justice in Lake County
How long is it going to take William Young to get justice, considering that the cases of the law firm...
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Indictment of Bridgeport Lawyer Targeted by FBI Operation “Running Man”
On Wednesday, the federal indictment of a Bridgeport lawyer was unsealed in the U.S. District Court,...
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Surviving Lesbian Spouse to Get Death Benefits of Law Firm Partner
On Monday, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled in favor of the lesbian...
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U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor Ends Forty-three Year Old Desegregation Order for Richardson ISD
Reed Charles O’Connor was born in 1965 in Houston, TX. In 1986, he graduated with a B.S. from the University...
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Wisconsin Lawyer Scheduled to Go to Prison Next Month, Still Has Law License
The snail’s pace at which the disciplinary processes of lawyers move in Wisconsin once again came to light...
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Colorado Foreclosure Law Firm Sued for Overbilling
Last week, John Suthers, the Colorado Attorney General’s office filed a lawsuit in Denver District Court...
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Lawyer Suspended for Faking Profile of Woman Acquaintance on Lesbian Dating Site
Last week, a Staten Island lawyer, James O’Hare was suspended from law practice for a period of one year by...
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Carmel Attorney Disbarred For Revealing Client Information in Published Book
A Carmel attorney, Joseph Stork Smith has been disbarred by the Indiana Supreme Court after he revealed...
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U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon Wants Trial Held Next Summer Regarding Portland Police Excessive Force against Individuals with Mental Illness
Michael Howard Simon was born in 1956 in New York City. He was born to Danny Simon and Arlene Friedman....
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Attorney Bills Iowa –80 Instances of More Than 24 Hours of Work a Day
Ney McDaniel, an attorney who represented defendants in Clay County and held a contract with the Iowa State...
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Court Finds Celebrity Lawyer’s Letter Protected from Claims of “Extortion”
A California appeals court found that a letter sent by celebrity lawyer Marty Singer to Mike Malin, the host...
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Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan Sounds Alarm over Federal Budget Cuts
Last week, Gerald Rosen, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan expressed his concerns...
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FBI Arrests Florida Attorney on Charges of Laundering Stock Fraud Proceeds
On Wednesday, Michael J. Scaglione, Esq., 41, an attorney in Coral Gables, Florida, was arrested on charges...
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Lawyer Pleads Guilty to “Ponzi-like” Funeral Fraud
On Tuesday, two more defendants pleaded guilty in the St. Louis pre-arranged funeral fraud case. The...
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Cameron County DA Creates Child Abuse Unit
The Cameron County District Attorney has formed a special unit for handling child abuse cases. While, under...
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U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller Will Hear Case against Sacramento School Closings
Kimberly Jo Mueller was born on September 17, 1957 in Newton, KS. She graduated with a B.A. from Pomona...
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Colorado Attorney General Says “Boobies Rock!” is a Scam
On Tuesday, John Suthers, the Attorney General of Colorado issued a statement that an investigation by the...
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Bulgarian Man Married to U.S. Man Gets Green Card
The federal administration seems fully focused on carrying out the intent of the recent decision on DOMA by...
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Chief Justice Roberts Says Sequester Is Hurting and Supreme Court Justices Asking Too Many Questions
On Saturday, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, said at a conference in West Virginia that the...
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U.S. District Judge Wiley Young Daniel Sentences Prison Escapee German Antonio Ocampo-Gutierrez to 18 Months
Wiley Young Daniel was born in 1946 in Louisville, KY. In 1968, he graduated with a B.A. from Howard...
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