Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility filed a petition with the Supreme Court, alleging Kennedy had engaged in professional misconduct by that offer, and had done so while already on disciplinary probation. The Minnesota Supreme Court [...]
Discovery Communications has finally prevailed in a lawsuit brought by Cody Lundin, one of the original co-hosts on Dual Survival, who alleged his departure prompted producers to deceptively edit footage to make him look mentally [...]
Several Florida attorneys were disciplined by the state Supreme Court in September over fraud, DUI, financial improprieties — and doing nothing on cases. Here they are: Several Florida Attorneys accused of healthcare fraud, grand theft [...]
allegations lodged against Young had to do with the attorney not completing the work he was hired to do. In one case where he represented someone in immigration court, he did not attend his client’s [...]
A Pike County grand jury, acting on a request by a prosecutor from the state Attorney General’s Office, indicted Crawford on one count of theft by taking and one count of violation of oath by [...]
In retrospect, Cohen told me that he wishes he had quit the Trump Organization when he heard these offensive remarks. “I should have been a bigger person, and I should have left,” he said. He [...]
Though Zellner is just now becoming a household name for some, she’s been a successful attorney for years. Some of her other cases align closely with what she’ll argue for Avery: that he was framed. Kathleen [...]
A Montclair lawyer accused of killing his girlfriend has been arrested on murder charges after a lengthy manhunt. James Ray III, 55, was booked in the Essex County Correctional Facility Tuesday on a charge of murder, jail [...]
Tampa police on Sunday arrested Lysa Clifton, a former lawyer for Clearwater parking lot shooter Michael Drejka, on a DUI charge. Clifton was part of a three-lawyer team representing Drejka until last month, when she [...]
A procession of legal experts and law students urged judicial leaders to bring more transparency to their system for handling misconduct in federal courthouses to protect employees and inform the public about the depth of [...]
Forget ambulance chasing. Joseph Ginarte is suing for $10 million, saying that starting in June, a wave of clients ditched him for fellow accident lawyer William Schwitzer. Manhattan personal- injury atty William Schwitzer is using [...]
Cleveland lawyer Steven Jerome Moody has been indefinitely suspended after a client secretly recorded his conversation bragging about ignoring the opposing counsel’s discovery requests and calling her “an arrogant bitch.” Cleveland lawyer Steven Jerome Moody is [...]
The commission found that Kamin, who was licensed as an attorney in 1995, “dishonestly accepted service of a complaint and summonses for the subtenants in his office suite.” Those subtenants were defendants in an eviction [...]
A complaint regarding Weir’s “failure to act with reasonable diligence and promptness with regard to fund received in a settlement to his client, keep his client reasonably informed, inform the client that he did not [...]
Laborde allegedly “accepted the legal representation of a husband and wife whose interests were directly adverse to each other, and then, after terminating the legal representation of the husband, filed suit on behalf of the [...]
The court ordered Michael J. Studtmann to be disciplined by a published censure, to revise the proposed engagement letter he gives clients and to fully cooperate with a disciplinary administrator’s audit of his trust account [...]
The petition alleged the two attorneys committed professional misconduct warranting public discipline—namely, as partners in a law firm, failing to supervise non-lawyer support staff to ensure the required trust account books and records were maintained, [...]
The Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, which investigates allegations of lawyer misconduct and prosecutes any resulting disciplinary case, wants Dierdorf’s law license suspended for at least three years and Schuessler’s suspended for at least two. [...]
An attorney who filed multiple appellate briefs that changed the body of her original brief was publicly reprimanded by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.Briefs aren’t supposed to be moving targets, the [...]
The Complainant, Ms. M, hired the Respondent to represent her in a divorce proceeding and to file a reconventional demand for spousal support, child custody and child support, in September of 2016. Ms. M paid [...]
“Right now we have an Attorney General, Ken Paxton, who is indicted for fraud. He faces three felony counts for defrauding his friends, his clients, even his fellow Republican lawmakers,” Nelson said, Texans Do Not [...]
Stewart submitted his petition for permanent resignation from the practice of law in Louisiana amidst the office of disciplinary counsel's investigation into allegations against him. The office of disciplinary counsel "is conducting an investigation into [...]
Giraud was alleged to have used trust account funds to support his addiction to prescription pain medications, including OxyContin. Giraud entered a 90-day inpatient treatment program by the time formal allegations were filed against him, [...]
Deridder attorney Mitchel M. Evans II has received additional suspension time following an Oct. 8 Louisiana Supreme Court attorney disciplinary proceeding regarding allegations arising from his representation in a custody dispute. Deridder Attorney Mitchel M. [...]
Cook County’s Sheriff and State’s Attorney may both face a proposed class action brought by a suspended Cook County correctional officer, who claims the disciplinary action against him and similar actions against all officers disciplined [...]
The Fifth Court of Appeals has referred John Lin McCraw, a past Texas Trial Lawyers Association president, to the State Bar of Texas for possible disciplinary action after attacking the integrity of two justices over [...]
"He abused his position, stole from the state, bullied others and flat-out lied," McVey said. "He's guilty of each and every county and we ask that you find him guilty." West Virginia Supreme Court Justice [...]
Bransom Williams and Della Williams filed a complaint on Aug. 13, in the Kanawha Circuit Court against the defendants alleging that they failed to file a timely administrative claim in Alpha Natural Resources Inc et [...]
The court ordered Michael J. Studtmann to be disciplined by a published censure, to revise the proposed engagement letter he gives clients and to fully cooperate with a disciplinary administrator’s audit of his trust account [...]
Andrea Bayer was arrested on August 1 and booked into Las Colinas women’s jail on charges related to selling, supplying or delivering a firearm to either a convicted felon or someone wanted on a felony warrant. [...]
The disgraced jailbird has booted more than one dozen attorneys! “He’s had it,” an insider revealed to Radar. “Mr. Cosby said he can’t have the ‘blind leading the blind’ and told Mr. Green to take [...]
The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline is investigating whether state Supreme Court candidate Jerry Tao improperly used partisan language in a campaign flyer and on his campaign website.Complaints to the commission are not disclosed publicly [...]
Dorough & Dorough was the law firm for the HOA, the Westchester Commons Swim & Tennis Association, and it obtained a judgment for $2,180, including $1,115 in attorney’s fees. With the judgment, the firm could [...]
“WHERE DID THE COURT GET THIS? THIS IS STATED NO WHERE IN [plaintiff's expert’s] REPORT. LA LA LAND, I COULD NOT MAKE THIS UP IF I TRIED,” the panel quotes Giorgini as having written to [...]
Diondra Chianta Love, a judge candidate in York County wanted by police for two months on a domestic violence warrant, was arrested Friday when she turned herself in. Love, 41, is the Democratic Party candidate [...]
The behind-the-scenes drama spilled into court, with Mr. Weinstein looking on, as the Manhattan District Attorney’s office elected to drop the lone charge stemming from Lucia Evans’ allegations that he forced her to perform a [...]
Making A Murderer returns for its highly-anticipated second season on Oct. 12, and Kathleen Zellner, 61, is the woman everyone is going to be talking about. The attorney is now representing Steven Avery, 56, and [...]
A disgraced lawyer convicted of hypnotizing female clients to take sexual advantage of them, is ordered to pay a multi-million dollar judgement to one of his victims. A judge ruled in favor of the woman, [...]
A New York state judge sided on Friday with Boies Schiller Flexner, declining to force the firm to turn over discovery documents to a former client, Russian-Canadian billionaire Alex Shnaider, who owes the firm a [...]
Three appeals court picks—David Porter, Ryan Nelson and Richard Sullivan—were among the 15 names the U.S. Senate confirmed to federal judgeships Thursday, after Senate Republicans and Democrats agreed to vote on a batch of judicial [...]
A federal jury has rejected Atlanta lawyer Nathan Hardwick IV’s defense that the $26 million he took from his now-bankrupt, residential real estate closing firm, Morris Hardwick Schneider, were funds legitimately due to him as the [...]
Florida lawyer Melissa Wilson sued San Antonio lawyer Heather Clement Tessmer and her firm over use of a slogan that's similar to the trademarked one that Wilson holds. Florida lawyer Melissa Wilson, who has used [...]
Christopher Michael Ochoa, 32, was booked into the Duval County jail, where he remains in custody in lieu of $5 million bail, jail records show. While the specifics of those criminal charges are unclear, the [...]
Best-selling author John Grisham, who lives in Chapel Hill and Charlottesville, Va., says many of the inmates on death row in North Carolina did not receive a fair trial. Fernando Salazar The Wichita Eagle Read [...]
Miami federal prosecutors say 71-year-old Michael Casey pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. He pleaded guilty last month to failing to appear in court in 2014. Sentencing [...]
President Trump on Thursday said he would overrule Attorney General Jeff Sessions if he tries to stymie efforts to overhaul the criminal justice system. “If he doesn't, then he gets overruled by me,” Trump said [...]
Lawrence J. Weinstein practiced law at Silver & Silver, which has placed him on leave amid felony charges. A local lawyer has been arrested and criminally charged for allegedly conspiring with his girlfriend, who also faces [...]
The woman accused Horne of beating and raping her at his East Memphis home, but Horne claimed she made the story up because she was angry he had a baby with another woman. Horne has [...]
“I’ve had a good run; in fact, a great run,” he said last month, confirming his agreement with the disbarment. “More than half my life, 35 years, I’ve dedicated to this profession. It’s time for [...]
Timothy George Hayes pleaded no contest to distribute or manufacture a controlled substance for profit. Hayes was charged in July of 2016 and the case had been under advisement and was removed from that status.Hayes [...]
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