Federal Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler Read Miranda Rights to Boston Marathon Bomber Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Marianne B. Bowler was born in Boston, MA, in 1947. She earned her A.B. degree from Regis College in 1967 and...
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Former Government Lawyer Charged With Espionage
On Thursday, federal prosecutors in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia unsealed an...
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Anne Small, First Woman General Counsel at the SEC
All reports until now indicate that White House Attorney Anne Small may become the first woman to hold the...
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U.S. District Judge Edward R. Korman Rules on Emergency Contraceptives for Women of All Ages
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Brooklyn Immigration Lawyer Charged with Visa Fraud
A criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday in Brooklyn federal court described how a Brooklyn immigration...
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Supreme Court Limits the Practice of Involuntary Blood Tests by Police
On Wednesday, in Missouri v McNeely, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that involuntary blood test of a...
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Texas Granny, 84, Charged with Hiring Hitman to Kill Local District Attorney
On Monday, an 84-year-old Texas woman was charged with attempting to hire a hit man to kill the local district...
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Lawyer Censured and Asked to Learn from Senior Attorneys
Lawyer Censured and Asked to Learn from Senior Attorneys
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Court Approves $310 Million Attorney Fees Award in LCD Price-Fixing Case
In the liquid-crystal display-panel case over price fixing that had dragged over years and resulted in more...
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Connecticut Joins High-Capacity Gun Magazine Ban
On Thursday, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy signed a law restricting the sale of high-capacity ammunition...
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Courts Cannot Arbitrarily Interfere with the Attorney-Client Relationship
On Tuesday, in a matter before the New York State Court of Appeals, the court ruled that a judge had erred in...
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Former Client Alleges Latham & Watkins in Classic Conflict of Interest in Class Action Suit
In the antitrust class action matter which accuses a number of railroad companies conspiring to inflate fuel...
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Monroe County DA’s Office Disqualified in Matter Where Local Judge Was Complainant
On Thursday, the Court of Appeals, New York held that the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office was...
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U.S. Supreme Court Restricts Use of Drug-Sniffing Dogs
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court restricted the ability of police in using trained dogs for sniffing around...
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Law Student Seeks Damages Against Law School For Broken Chair
Considering the current legal job market, legal students across the country are planning for their future in a...
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Federal Court Overturns $5.4 Million Restitution Order against Former Lawyer
On Monday, a $5.4 million restitution order against former lawyer Kenneth Carnesi was vacated by U.S. District...
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“Whitey” Bulger Gets New Judge Assigned to His Trial
On Friday, the federal court in Boston assigned a new judge to hear the federal government’s case against...
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Former Associate Sues Law Firm for Sexual Harassment
On Wednesday, Alexandra Marchuk, a former associate who worked in the law firm of Faruqi & Faruqi, filed a...
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Federal Judiciary Warns Sequestration Would Weaken the Justice System
On Tuesday, the U.S. federal judiciary warned that compulsory budget cuts will weaken the ability of the...
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US and Canadian Courts Work Together to Distribute Liquidation Proceeds of Nortel
On Friday, Kevin Gross a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in Wilmington, Delaware, informed the administrators for...
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Seattle Mayor Accuses City Attorney of Ethics Violations
On Tuesday, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn sent an email accusing City Attorney Pete Holmes of breaching...
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From $1.75 To The Million Dollar Haircut: A Saga Of Networking To Success
This is the story of Joe Francis, who started out in 1962 cutting men's hair for $1.75 a cut. Today he...
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U.S. District Judge Todd Campbell Rejects Lawsuits Against Corps of Engineers
Todd J. Campbell was born in Rockford, Illinois in 1956. He graduated with a B.A. from Vanderbilt University...
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NY State Assembly Clears Raising Retirement of Judges to Eighty
Taking into account that people are in fact living longer than before and staying active much longer, on...
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Woman Receives $7.76 mln Jury Award against Johnson & Johnson over Vaginal Mesh
On Thursday, a New Jersey jury ordered Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon to pay punitive damages...
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For a First: Lawyer Suspended for Bigamy
On Tuesday, Manhattan solo practitioner Joseph Rosenzweig was suspended for six months by the Appellate...
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New York City Federal Courts Adopt Tougher Rules for Errant Attorneys
On Friday, Chief Judge Loretta Preska filed a new amendment, Joint Local Civil Rule 1.5 (h) targeting...
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Client Account Agreements Can Be Modified to Ban Class Action
On Thursday, a securities industry regulatory panel ruled that the Charles Schwab Corp. has the rights to ban...
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NY Court of Appeals Upholds Suspension of Lawyer Whose Brother Stole Money
On Tuesday, the New York Court of Appeals declined, without explanation, to hear the appeal against the...
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Obama Hints Patent Law Reforms Need to Address Patent Trolls
On Thursday, President Barack Obama said that U.S. patent reforms need to work more to address the issue of...
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