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Unlike some younger classmates, Sandra Wilson didn't go to law school for the money. Nor is she worried about balancing a fledgling legal career with marriage and children—at 70, she just celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary June 1 and is a grandmother, the News Herald reports. Now,…

In a decision that may benefit ordinary creditors of a defunct Florida law firm and cost those swindled by its imprisoned former managing partner, Scott Rothstein, a federal appeals court has ruled that funds in Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler bank accounts are not subject to forfeiture by the feds. That means…

As a trial proceeds against a Texas physician who is accused of sexually assaulting a patient, the government is focusing on an unusual target—a private attorney who is representing the alleged victim in the case. At a Tuesday hearing that took place away from the jury hearing the sexual assault…

Seyfarth Shaw has recruited eight partners from three different law firms to open two new offices in Australia. The offices, which are in Sydney and Melbourne, are part of a global strategy to offer major corporate clients a one-stop shop for dealing with international labor and employment matters,

After a decision by a military judge earlier this month that Maj. Nidal Hasan can represent himself in a looming trial over the 2009 massacre of military personnel at Fort Hood, the 42-year-old Army psychiatrist has been at odds with his fired former defense lawyers who now represent him as…

After nearly five hours of deliberation, a jury sentenced a Texas lawyer on Tuesday to three years in prison for firing five shots in 2010 at a U.S. census worker as the woman was trying to get the house number at the lawyer's residence in the Leander area. Attorney Carolyn…

Outrage has been widespread and lawsuits have been filed since former CIA employee Edward Snowden exposed the the National Security Agency's secret U.S. collection of cellphone data from Verizon subscribers. Some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have

For the seventh time in a decade, a small Iowa City law firm has been the victim of a traffic accident. In this latest incident, its front porch was damaged when a car involved in a collision skidded into its stone foundation. A limestone pillar will have to be replaced.…

In a ruling that is likely to catch the attention of employers nationwide, a federal judge in New York has ruled that unpaid interns were misclassified employees and has certified a class action against Fox Entertainment Group in which internships throughout the company's corporate offices will be reviewed. Granting, in…

Former NFL player Chad Johnson should not have to do time for his playful tap on his lawyer's backside during a court hearing in Florida on Monday, the attorney says in a motion seeking a reduction of the jail term that resulted. "Mr. Johnson has been a professional football player…

The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused the former general counsel of a Detroit investment firm of trying to cover up the theft of pension fund money. Alicia Diaz, the former general counsel of MayfieldGentry Realty Advisors, is accused with three other executives of trying to hide the theft of…

A Cleveland man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them at his home for about a decade has pleaded not guilty to 329 charges. Ariel Castro, 52, appeared in court today for his arraignment, report ABC News and the Cleveland Plain Dealer.…

A former White House lawyer accused of beating his wife with a flashlight told a Connecticut judge on Tuesday that doctors have discovered he has a possible brain defect or disease. John Michael Farren said an MRI taken in April showed evidence of the brain problem, the

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Dollar General Corp. and a BMW manufacturing plant for their use of criminal background checks in hiring or firing. The EEOC claims the background checks had a disparate impact on African-Americans, report the Washington Post, the Associated…

Two ellipses in a quote in a U.S. Supreme Court opinion are getting some closer scrutiny. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy bolstered his majority decision upholding DNA testing for arrestees last week with a quote from a book called Actual Innocence, written by the founders…

An Illinois hearing board is recommending a five-month suspension for a lawyer accused of posting a video of an undercover drug buy to YouTube with the caption “Cops and Task Force Planting Drugs.” The hearing board recommended the suspension for Jesse Raymond Gilsdorf of Mount Sterling, Ill., in a June…

Less than five years ago, Epstein Becker Green was adding to the attorney roster in its "fast-growing" Atlanta office, proudly proclaiming in a 2009 press release that it had brought in six lawyers from Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell. But now a firm leader says Epstein Becker…

In the first step in a process that could eventually lead to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the legality of a sweeping telephone records review revealed last week by a former National Security Agency contractor, the American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday sued the Obama administration over its "dragnet"…

Despite physical evidence that supported her story that a stranger had bound, gagged, raped and photographed her in 2008 in the transitional housing apartment in which she was living, an 18-year-old Washington state woman was disbelieved. Pressured by police into recanting, she was criminally charged for making a false rape…

A car bomb detonated Tuesday outside the Afghanistan Supreme Court killed at least 17 people and injured 39. Most of the victims are believed to be civilian court workers getting ready to board buses outside the court's entrance and head home. However, in written statements emailed to news organizations, the…